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The Strategos Guide To Value Stream and Process Mapping goes far beyond symbols and arrows. In over 163 pages it tells the reader not only how to do it but what to do with it. More info...

Strategos Guide to Value Stream & Process Mapping

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Guide to Cycle Counting

Facilities & Workplace Design

Warehouse Planning Guide

Human Side of Lean Video

Intuitive Grouping

For Simple Product/Process Mixes

Intuitive grouping is the simplest and most common method of creating part families. Experienced engineers and shop people examine the product mix and separate products and parts into processing families. These part families become the basis for workcells.

Intuitive grouping is fast and simple. However, when parts and processes are a complex mix, the method does not give good results.

When there are more than about 100 parts and more than a dozen or so processes, Production Flow Analysis (PFA) or Coding & Classification is indicated.

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