Hey everyone, welcome to this lecture. What are the benefits of creating continuous flow? Let's begin. One of the first benefits of creating continuous flow is creating products. First time right? in continuous flow.

Every operator is an inspector and works to fix any problem in station before passing them on. But if defects do get missed and passed on, they will be detected very quickly and the problem can be immediately diagnosed and corrected. The second benefit is catering to changing demands of the customer. If you dedicate equipment to a product line, you have less flexibility in scheduling it for other purposes. But if the lead time to make a product is very short, you have more flexibility to respond and make what the customer really wants. With traditional mass production technique, you can put a new Order into system and wait for weeks to get the product out.

However, with continuous flow, lead time are a matter of near us, you can fill in a new order in a few hours, thus being able to cater to the changing demands of the customer in the shortest possible lead time. The next benefit, creating continuous flow improves productivity of employees. When you work using traditional mass production techniques, you tend to over produce parts which then have to be moved to storage. If you are over producing parts, it is imperative that your employees productivity is utilized in creating waste of overproduction. Rather, in a one piece flow. There is very little non value added activity.

You quickly see who is too busy and who is idle. It is easy to calculate the value added work. And then figure out how many people are needed to reach a certain production rate. Benefit number four, eliminate space for storing inventory and equipment. When equipment is organized by department, there is a lot of bits of space between equipment that are wasted. But most of the space is wasted by inventory, piles and piles of it.

In a cell, everything is pushed close together, and there is very little space wasted by inventory. By making greater use of the floor space, you often eliminate the need to build more capacity. These are some of the key benefits of using continuous process flow. That brings us to the end of this lecture. Thank you for attending. See you in the next one.