Evaluation 1 – Value Stream Mapping

Consider the following:

ACME Incorporated, a ball bearing manufacturing company located in Guelph, Ontario, receives raw
material sheets from XYZ Steel Company once a week every Monday for a product family of retainers
(casings in which ball bearings are held), and then ships its finished product on a daily basis to a second-
tier automotive manufacturing customer named ABC Enterprises.

The product family of the bearing manufacturing company under consideration consists of two types of
retainers—large (L) and small (S)—that are packaged for shipping in returnable trays with 60 retainers in
each tray.

The manufacturing process consists of a cell containing pressing operation, a piercing and forming cell,
and a finish grind operation, after which the two types of retainers are staged for shipping.

The information collected by the operations manager at ACME Inc. is shown in Table below.

OPERATIONS DATA FOR A FAMILY OF RETAINERS AT ACME

Assignment

1. Create a Value Stream Map for ACME Inc

2. Determine the Takt time for this manufacturing cell
3. Determine the production lead time for this manufacturing cell
4. Determine the total cycle time for this production cell.
5. Calculate the capacity (units per day) Hint: Determine the bottleneck operation.