In: Mechanical Engineering
1. What is the USA principle?
2. Why is the USA principle important?
3. Why is the automation migration strategy not suitable for products with short lives?
1. USA stands for:
1. Understand the existing process.
2. Simplify the process.
3. Automate the process.
2. USA approach is important as it explains the process in all of its details. The inputs, outputs and the work carried out between input and output, value addition by process on product, these all are comprehended in it. After understanding the process, methods of simplifying it are observed. Addition, subtraction or combination of steps are checked.
It helps to consider these questions within the following methodologies:equence of this strategy. Material handling effort and non-operation time are also reduced. Manufacturing lead time is reduced for better customer service.
3. Automation migration strategy is used to introduce new product in shorter time for which a parallel manual production method is designed. The strategy is used for long lasting products and once the product becomes successful company decides to plan full automation of the production process. The strategy is not very cost effective for short lived products.