new kanban carts

I took some pictures today of our new kanban carts. The thing to notice, aside from the smaller amount of inventory they carry (a very good thing) is that they only take up half as much floor space as the white ones. Since we had 54 of the white ones, they were occupying a significant portion of our factory (about 675 sqft of the 10,000 sqft factory, and usually right in the middle of the aisle). When we're done we'll have about 30 of the new carts which will take up about 188 sqft of floor space.


Another side benefit of the new carts is that the parts are now stored in a useful way. The shop folks used to use buckets to scoop parts from the white bins into smaller bins (often yellow ones!) that they could handle. Check out how one mechanic is able to use the new bins just as they are without any additional handling of the parts.