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Shahrukh Irani

Articles by Shahrukh Irani

FEATURE ARTICLES | 2024-08-15

Investing in Industry 4.0 for the Gear Manufacturer/Job Shop (Part 2)

This article requires that the reader be familiar with Job Shop Lean, an approach to adapt the principles of lean manufacturing for a job shop, regardless of its size or industry sector. A job shop typically executes a different schedule every day. Each day’s schedule could have a different mix of jobs, due dates, lot sizes, and number of gear operations. Regardless of all these differences, it is important that the shop receives a feasible schedule that does not exceed available capacity constraints on key resources (machines, labor, materials, dies, etc.).


FEATURE ARTICLES | 2024-07-23

Investing in Industry 4.0 for the Gear Manufacturer/Job Shop (Part 1)

This article requires that the reader be familiar with Job Shop Lean, an approach to adapt the principles of lean manufacturing  for a job shop, regardless of its size or industry sector. The following articles will give the interested reader a sufficient background on the many differences between Job Shop Lean and Lean.

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