Bottleneck check: Where does your time go?

1 Which of these do you recognise?

• Assemblies get started, parts get searched for, and the assemblies are set aside unfinished.
• We only know for sure whether the FAT date will hold shortly before it.
• Someone walks across the shop floor every morning to find out where the orders stand.
• Parts are made to an old revision because the change did not arrive in time.
• Afterwards, it is hard to trace who clarified and decided what about an assembly.
• Machines stand idle because tools, fixtures, material or the program are not ready.
• The operator only finds out what goes on the machine next by asking.
• Without certain Excel lists alongside the ERP, the business would not run.
• The same data is maintained by hand in more than one system.