Automation on wasteful operations is the most unforgivable waste, and this is the misguided way to carry out low-cost automation in the early stages, starting with identifying low-cost automation opportunities that can be implemented, with a focus on highlight presentations. The correct steps are shown below, low-cost automation of value-added operations to eliminate the last step of waste.

The first step: the improvement of the line, logistics low-cost automation

The ideal state of the production line is a value-added continuous flow of production, the conventional improvement of the idea of points, lines, surfaces, the body of the landing steps, however, in the low-cost automation work to carry out, need to carry out the line of the first improvement. Solve the problem of the source of the assembly operation of the production line, the material of the bare parts, flush set, cycle distribution. This link is the logistics of low-cost automation, to solve the production line operation materials caused by the waste problem.

Second step: the improvement of the point, the low-cost automation of the workstation

The production line material is bare parts, complete sets, the cycle, this time to solve the waste problem of the workstation. Follow the steps to analyze and improve the value-added time ratio of the workstation.

For the workstation loss of time decreasing to a certain extent, it is difficult to use the means of management technology to solve, at this time the low-cost automation to improve the last step of the waste killed, to achieve the ideal state of the value-added operations 100%

Step 3: the improvement of the surface of the overall flow of the low-cost automation

The goal of the first two steps to achieve the elimination of the waste of the line workstation Minimization, at this point we need to look at the problem from the face of thinking, from the supplier of materials, to the workstation operation, the whole process of value-added activities, the right medicine to carry out the LCIA Qi set of unmanned cycle of loading, to achieve the workstation to reach out to the 30CM range of easy work, the waste will be completely eliminated.

In accordance with the above three major steps to carry out landing, each step of the specific development of ideas is the first logistics, in the workstation, after the low-cost automation, bear in mind that there is no lean improvement analysis work, blindly on the low-cost automation. We can see that low-cost automation as an effective tool to solve the waste, the specific effect needs to be combined with the practice of lean techniques in order to play a real effect.