16 Types of Loss in Gemba
16 Types of Loss in Gemba
16 Types of Loss in Gemba
BY KII - 2014-06-02
8 Availability Losses
Losses due to failures. Type of failure include sporadic function stopping failures and
function – reduction failure in which the function of the equipment drop below normal
levels like replacement of parts and repair, cases requiring 5 minute or more for repair.
Target is zero failures
To attain zero failure, it is necessary to correct the misconception about breakdown
maintenance that failures are unavoidable
Time when equipment is shut down for maintenance. However shut down related work
generally affect the operating time rate of equipment. Shutdown related work must be
regarded as a loss and reduction of shutdown work time must be sought.
Setup Loss
Stoppage losses caused by changing the cutting blade due to breakage or caused by
changing the cutting blade when the service life of the grinding stone, cutteror bites has
been reached
What is your tool change loss? 5 or > 10 %.
Normally a fix number of time is set but if the tool breaks before that – it leads to change,
adjustment and a new sort over all again.
Start up Loss
When starting production, the losses that arise until equipment starts up, running and
production processing conditions stabilize.
Do your machines have ‘Monday Disease?
i.e. Frequent stoppage for short time from seconds to less than 5 minutes for recovery
e.g. Component stuck to die while stamping etc.
Losses that occurs when the equipment temporarily stops or idles due to sensor
actuation or jamming of the work The equipment will operate normally through simple
measures (removal of the work and resetting)
The definition of these losses is as follows;
e.g. 50 parts produced against standard of 53 parts as a cycle time increased to 9 min
from 8.5 due to less speed/feed
These are losses that occur because of equipment speed is slow. They can be defined
as follows;
Losses due to a difference between the design speed (or standard speed for the item
concerned) and the actual speed
Losses caused when design speed is lower than present technological standards or the
desirable conditions
If the design speed is 60 seconds and actual cycle time is 65 seconds then the loss is 5
seconds.
The target is to reduce the difference between design speed and actual speed to zero
i.e. any reworked or rejected product shows direct time loss due to poor quality
Sporadic defects are easily fixed, so they are rarely left uncorrected. Chronic defects in
contrast, are often left as they are, because their causes are difficult to perceive and
measures to correct them are seldom effective to realize zero defects, it is necessary to
radically review defective phenomena.
Management losses
Waiting losses that are caused by management, such as waiting for material, waiting for
a dolly, waiting for tools, waiting for instructions, waiting for repairs of breakdowns, etc.
These include motion losses due to violation of motion economy, losses that occur as a
result of skill differences, and walking losses attributable to an inefficient layout.
Work losses from frequent measurement and adjustment in order to prevent the
occurrence and outflow of quality defects.
These are waiting time losses involving multi – process and multi stand operators and
line balance work in conveyor work
Distribution man hour losses due to transport of materials products (proceed products)
and dollies.
These are also personal losses resulting from non replacement with automated systems,
although such replacement could be done. They include for instance case in which
automated loading and unloading leading to manpower reduction is not implemented,
although it could be done.
Losses of costs – three major losses that sat can impede effective use of production
resource
Losses of cost
Energy losses
e.g. losses due to heat radiation, leakage of fuel, air, oil, losses, due to ineffective
utilization of input energy (electric, gas, fuel oil, steam, air and water etc) in processing .
Etc.
Because of electricity, fuel, utility cost represents a high percentage of the total cost, all
companies are striving to reduce them
e.g. lose of tool due to regrinding, poor life of molds etc, repairs of Dies/ Tools FOS
consumables
These are monetary losses resulting from the mfg and repair of dies, jigs and tools
necessary for the production of products
Mfg new modules, replacement at the end of service life, breakdown, repair is expensive.
To reduce mfg costs it is absolutely necessary to extend MTBF of mould repair, to
prevent product breakage and to extend the service life of replacement parts
Yield loss
e.g. Excess material stock/ weight, Exclusive splashes etc…Material losses due to
differences in the weight of the input materials and the weight of the quality products.
Increase casting wall thickness to avoid below holes leading to more machining time and
loss of material.