A process improvement team is working to improve the production output at the Johnson Manufacturing plant’sHeader Cell that manufactures a key component, headers, used in commercial air conditioners. A header is partof the circulatory system of a commercial air conditioner that moves coolant between various components suchas the evaporator coil and the condenser coil. Currently, the header production cell is scheduled separately fromthe main work in the plant. Often, individual headers are not sequenced to match the product they go into on thefinal assembly line in a timely fashion, and so the product can sit in queue waiting for a header

A process improvement team is working to improve the production output at the Johnson Manufacturing plant’sHeader Cell that manufactures a key component, headers, used in commercial air conditioners. A header is partof the circulatory system of a commercial air conditioner that moves coolant between various components suchas the evaporator coil and the condenser coil. Currently, the header production cell is scheduled separately fromthe main work in the plant. Often, individual headers are not sequenced to match the product they go into on thefinal assembly line in a timely fashion, and so the product can sit in queue waiting for a header

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