Airplane Class Activity

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Class Activity
The class activity began by getting into a group of ten people. Everyone in the team got divided to performed different roles. The goal of this activity was to produces paper airplanes to fly across the room by following lean system layout. There were six working layout for the members, which are 5 assemblers, 1 test pilot, 1 scorekeeper, 1 quality control, 1 inventory, and 1 throwing. In facts, the 5 assemblers were working in line to produce each part of the airplane. The first person in line had to folded paper in half lengthwise, second person fold down the two top corners of the paper, third person fold the two edges toward the center line, fourth person make a valley fold in half, and the fifth person folds the wings for the airplane and attached paper clip on the air place at a appropriate position. Perhaps, step 5 was the position that spent most time in the process; it was the bottleneck because this position slow down the entered process by received more airplanes than it can manage. The team was able to produce 16 quality airplanes and 9 defective airplanes in 7 minutes time points.
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In fact, we also have a sticky note to post to the process before to addicted that the position is ready to have more airplanes to assemble. By following these processes, we were able to produce 33 quality airplanes and 3 defective airplanes within the time frame as the first process. The team was able to double the quantity of airplanes being produce. After every team finished this activity, every team was required to post their record their quality/defective airplanes, inventory, and time of these two round. Indeed, we were able to see that every team was able to make more airplanes and more inventory in the second