Application of lean logistics in engine plant

Lean logistics regards lean thinking as a guide, driven by customer demand, using a series of lean methods to keep improving, eliminate waste, and create value-added logistics activities throughout the value chain so that logistics can effectively and smoothly flow throughout the chain. For engine manufacturing has many work-in-process inventories, station busy/free unbalanced, crowded production, production line interruption, re-processing and other similar problems which are having become increasingly worsening. Therefore, a four-story mixed production line improvement framework is built, based on lean logistics and industrial engineering(IE) ideologies. The planning layer is improved from sequence in this model. Firstly, putting delivery into the production link, using the equalization idea determines many varieties of small batch production ratio per hour, and getting the product processing time of minimum variance method to determine the scheduling order so as to enhance line balance rate. Finally, material requirements planing for every part(PFEP) table is formed combined activity based classification(ABC) and processing time measurement statistics. The results show that the proposed framework produces a significant improvement that can provide support for enterprises building information system in the future.