CPAI Editorial
Research, field notes, and practical guidance from the CPAI community.
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A waste record can have every field filled in and still fail the investigation. Isaac Caruso of Uncountable explains why, using a beverage and starch example.
by Isaac Caruso
Changeover time is the elapsed time from the last good unit of one production run to the first good unit of the next. The practical formula is first-good timestamp minus last-good timestamp. This page shows how to compare standard and actual time, how three extra minutes repeated three times a day become annual capacity hours, […]
by CPAI Editorial Team
The hidden factory is the unofficial work and capacity consumed by defects, rework, workarounds, queues, and other non-value-adding activity that ordinary reports do not join.
by CPAI Editorial Team
