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If a station has a longer cycle time than others on a line, you just duplicate the station so that the throughput remains the same. If you have say 10 painting
by jjk166 3y ago
If a station has a longer cycle time than others on a line, you just duplicate the station so that the throughput remains the same. If you have say 10 painting stations, you can on average pass a car through in 1/10th the time it takes to paint a car.
- marcusverus 3y agoThis makes sense when everything is running normally, but if one of your 10 painting stations goes down for a day, every upstream assembly step is forced to run at 90%, since the painting step is now a bottleneck. Given the huge cost of idle capital, it makes sense to minimize the upstream impact of any given issue.
- jjk166 3y agoAnd if any one of your single stations goes down the line is forced to run at 0% speed. You add sufficient redundancy and perform preventative maintenance so the line doesn't go down. 11 car painting stations is still way easier, cheaper, and safer than building 1 station which is 10 times faster that can never go down.