Learning Launch

Challenge: At my previous organization, I was the assembly line supervisor. My job was to look after the  production procedures, planning and scheduling day to day activities and look for improvements that  can be implemented at the shop-floor in order to achieve greater efficiency. My boss organised a team,  made me team-leader and assigned us the task to reduce the time taken for the assembly procedures.  So we tried to focus what are the key hindrances, how to mitigate them at the root level and provide a  solution which is also ergonomically well suited for workers.

Selection: Our team has already gone through several design thinking activities/tools, so we are ready to  try the learning launch tool. Broadly speaking, the learning launch is an experiment meant to quickly test  an idea and prototype.

Application: Materials for assembly used to come at a lot and the store-keepers dumped them all at  once near the assembly line. To segregate material from there was a tedious task. So we build the kit  system; identified and segregated the materials required for a particular assembly. This resulted in lots  of small kits, which were labeled according to their assembly procedure and things became convenient  for the workers.

Insight:   This kit system resulted in significant reduction in non-value added activities and resulted  around 9% reduction in assembly time for that particular product. Soon this Kit system was applied to all  other products and results were very satisfying.

Approach: As a next step of optimization, we could implement the Kanban system to automatically refill  the kits to maintain the continuous flow of materials.


Learning Launch Challenge : At my previous organization , I was the assembly line supervisor . My job was to look after the production procedures , planning and scheduling day to day activities and look for improvements that can be implemented at the shop - floor in order to achieve greater efficiency . My boss organised a team , made me team - leader and assigned us the task to reduce the time taken for the assembly procedures . So we tried to focus what are the key hindrances , how to mitigate them at the root level and provide a solution which is also ergonomically well suited for workers . Selection : Our team has already gone through several design thinking activities / tools , so we are ready to try the learning launch tool . Broadly speaking , the learning launch is an experiment meant to quickly test an idea and prototype . Application : Materials for assembly used to come at a lot and the store - keepers dumped them all at once near the assembly line . To segregate material from there was a tedious task . So we build the kit system ; identified and segregated the materials required for a particular assembly . This resulted in lots of small kits , which were labeled according to their assembly procedure and things became convenient for the workers . Insight : This kit system resulted in significant reduction in non - value added activities and resulted around 9 % reduction in assembly time for that particular product . Soon this Kit system was applied to all other products and results were very satisfying . Approach : As a next step of optimization , we could implement the Kanban system to automatically refill the kits to maintain the continuous flow of materials .