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ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: This article describes how Lean manufacturing techniques were applied to a mature product, in a mature industry; it follows a previous article

MORE INFO: Application of Lean Techniques in a Discrete Manufacturing Environment This article describes how Lean manufacturing techniques were applied to a mature product, in a mature industry; it follows a previous article Application of Finite Capacity Techniques in an ERP Environment by the same author, published in 'Control', July/August 2002. Capacitors have been manufactured for around 100 years, and very little has changed to the design. Basically the capacitor is a series of 'elements'encased in a steel box and impregnated with special oil as in Figure 1. The elements are wound from reels of polythene film and aluminium foil between 5 and 16 micron thick. The manufacturing process is shown in Figure 2.

PUBLISHER: Institute of Operations Management

Page number: 23 Word count: 2200

Vol 28 - No 09 - November 2002

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