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The Shepherd: Lot History Analysis

The Shepherd next looks at the detailed operation history of one of the inactive lots, as shown below. The red indicates queue time, while the green indicates process time. This lot spent over 40 hours in queue at operation 2700, a Nitride Dehydrate operation. 

Lot history for a specific inactive lot

Further analysis of Operation 2700 around the time period of interest shows high, cyclic variability in both WIP and inventory age at Operation 2700. 

Operation history for 40+ hour wait operation

The Shepherd goes on to analyze the problem operation in more detail. (Go to the next page.)

 
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