Having essential capability, availability, and flexibility in the 4Ms — manpower, machines, materials, and methods. A lack of basic stability in a process prevents improvements from either occurring or being sustained.<\/p>\n
A process with basic stability is capable (able to reliably produce good parts but short of jidoka at each step), available (can produce when needed and at a pace with takt time), and flexible (able to change over a few items but short of every-part-every-interval (EPEx)).<\/p>\n
Basic stability is required for the effective functioning of just-in-time (JIT) production, which often follows an implementation cycle of basic stability\u2014flow\u2014takt time\u2014pull\u2014heijunka. The cycle is repeated over and over as needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Having essential capability, availability, and flexibility in the 4Ms — manpower, machines, materials, and methods. A lack of basic stability in a process prevents improvements from either occurring or being sustained. A process with basic stability is capable (able to reliably produce good parts but short of jidoka at each step), available (can produce when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"glossary-categories":[],"glossary-tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n