De-Bottlenecking
In short it is an attempt to “going back to basics”. Management from Heart (MFH) believes that:
This is a very important part of an operating manufacturing process. It is more relevant to processes which involve:
- Multiple stages.
- Combination of batch and continuous processes.
- Long duration processes.
For de-bottlenecking
- The first step is to break down the process into small, independent steps.
- These steps have to be quantified into quantity and duration.
- These steps have to be qualified as parallel or linear.
- Locating the bottleneck steps.
This stage is common with identifying the bottlenecks.
The further process includes:
- Root cause analysis.
- Studying the possibility of on-line upgradation.
- Corrective action implementation.
- Followup for establishing the complete process after upgradation.
- Reviewing and re-working for next level.
