Research Article
Value Stream Mapping of Rope Manufacturing: A Case Study
Table 2
Current state data for production processes.
| | Department | Processing time (hours) | Waiting time and non-value-added time (hours) | Material handling time (minutes) | Possible improvement |
| | Warehouse | 0 | 168 | 4 | | | Twisting | 19.6 | 26.81 | 3 | | | Stranding | 5.5 | 26.12 | 2 | | | Braiding | 6.3 | 2.02 | 3.5 | Revise plant layout | | Oven | 36.0 | 0.25 | 3 | | | Splicing and packaging | 1.3 | 0.83 | 4.5 | | | Shipping | 0.0 | 48 | 0 | | | Total value-added time | 69 hours | | Material handling time | 20 minutes | | Production lead time | 8 days | | Receiving order: shipping | 36 days |
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