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Der Auftrag durch die Halle.
Production control for metalworking companies: from order entry to delivery note.
The machine that is running is not the problem. The order that is lying around is. In the shop, an order spends almost all of its time waiting: twelve working days for two hours of work are normal in metalworking companies, and nobody sees it because every machine is running.
The book shows owners, plant managers, work planners and foremen in metalworking companies with ten to 250 people where the time goes, why a full shop is a slow shop and how to find the bottleneck, which is almost never the expensive machine. How to promise delivery dates that hold and write routings that relieve people. How to release orders, decide the sequence, tame rush orders, cut set-up times, inspect in the flow and get feedback that people actually go along with. What software can do and what it cannot. And how the invoice gets written on shipping day.
A fictional job shop with 52 people, Brandt Metalltechnik, accompanies the book through the first year of its new production controller Lena Haas: on 5 January she stands in front of the band saw with a job folder, at the end of the year there are 92 instead of 68 percent on-time delivery and five instead of twelve days lead time, with the same machine park. With 19 chapters in four parts, 31 figures, twelve calculation and work sheets, nine checklists, a glossary and an index.
324 pages, A5, softcover, €45.00. ISBN 978-94-0396-575-8. Published in German.
Four excerpts from the book
Four excerpts from the book – twelve days for two hours, the trap of full utilisation, the saw as the bottleneck and Martin Brandt's sentence about keeping machines busy –, quoted verbatim from the print edition.
Reading sample in German – the book is published in German.