What is FIFO | First In First Out Explained

Discover the power of First In, First Out ( FIFO ) methodology and revolutionize your production processes. 🏭

🔹 Understand FIFO.

Learn how to maintain precise production and conveyance sequences, ensuring that the first part to enter a process or storage location is also the first to exit. Prevent obsolescence and burying quality issues in inventory.

🔹 Pull System Implementation

Explore the essential role of FIFO in pull system implementation, focusing on producing only what the customer needs, when they need it.

Avoid overproduction and reduce waste.

🔹 Maintaining FIFO

Discover effective strategies for maintaining the FIFO sequence, such as painted lanes or physical channels that hold inventory.

Optimize supply and demand synchronization for seamless operations.

🔹 Unique Applications

Explore how FIFO is useful for decoupled processes, where maintaining an inventory of all variations is impractical.

Manage one-of-a-kind parts, short shelf-life components, and infrequent but valuable requirements.

🔹 Enhance Efficiency

Embrace the FIFO principle to prevent overproduction, reduce waste, and achieve lean manufacturing excellence.

Optimize your processes and maximize productivity.

✏ Here is the transcript of the video.

▶ FIFO stands for First In, First Out.

I will discuss how to maintain a precise production and conveyance sequence by ensuring that the first part to enter a process or storage location is also the first part to exit.

▶ Why FIFO

The main purpose of the FIFO principle is to prevent stored parts from becoming obsolete and to ensure that quality problems are not buried in inventory.

This is a necessary condition for pull system implementation, which is a method of manufacturing that focuses on producing only what the customer needs, when they need it.

▶ How to Mantain FIFO

One way to maintain the FIFO sequence is by using a painted lane or physical channel that holds a certain amount of inventory.

The supplying process fills the lane from the upstream end while the customer process withdraws from the downstream end.

If the lane fills up, the supplying process must stop producing until the customer consumes some of the inventory.

▶ FIFO and Overproduction

This way, the FIFO lane can prevent the supplying process from overproducing even though the supplying process is not linked to the consuming process by continuous flow or a supermarket.

FIFO is also useful for regulating a pull system between two decoupled processes when it is not practical to maintain an inventory of all possible part variations in a supermarket.

This could be because the parts are one-of-a-kind, have short shelf lives, or are very expensive but required infrequently.

In this application, the removal of one part in a FIFO lane by the consuming process automatically triggers the production of one additional part by the supplying process.

▶ Conclusion

Overall, the FIFO principle is a critical aspect of Lean Manufacturing that helps to prevent overproduction and reduce waste.

In the description, you will find links to interesting articles on the FIFO methodology.

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