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At Toyota Material Handling, Columbus, IN

Mixed Model Line Design — 3-Day Immersive Workshop

With Integrated Digital Twin Practicum

November 10–12, 2026. Learn and apply the complete Mixed Model Line Design roadmap with factory tours and integrated Digital Twin exercises using Ezbelta Digital Twin.

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Agenda — Learn it. Model it. Prove it.

Day 1 — Foundations of Flow

  • Introductions, roadmap, and current-state assessment
  • Product families, takt time, process mapping
  • Standard Work & operator balance charts
  • In-process Kanban design
  • Digital Twin intro: platform orientation & dataset setup
  • Toyota factory tour

Day 2 — Mixed-Model Design

  • Processes and Process Flow Diagrams
  • Process Flow Matrix & Mixed Model PFD
  • Standard Work, Takt Time, Resource Calculations
  • Digital Twin exercise: build your line model & run baseline simulation
  • Toyota factory tour

Day 3 — Digital Twin & Proof

  • Workstation definition & line balancing
  • In-Process Kanbans (IPKs) and buffer sizing
  • Balancing tools & countermeasures
  • Digital Twin exercise: scenario testing, bottleneck analysis & roadmap
  • Final presentations & Q&A

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The perfect venue

Why Toyota Material Handling (Columbus, IN)

Hosting this workshop at Toyota Material Handling gives participants a living laboratory for Mixed Model Line Design. You'll see how disciplined flow, standard work, and right-sized buffers come together in a world-class operation.

Plant of the Year
Recognized by ASSEMBLY Magazine as a Plant of the Year — a benchmark site for Lean and operational excellence.
Gemba access
Guided factory walk-throughs let you observe material presentation, IPKs, and visual controls in situ — then map what you see to the design roadmap.
Design → reality
Each classroom concept is reinforced on the shop floor, closing the loop between engineering intent and line performance.
Included: Digital Twin Practicum

Ezbelta Digital Twin — your Digital Twin for Mixed Model Design

Build a live Digital Twin of your line, analyze performance, and validate improvements before a single change hits the floor. Integrated into every hands-on exercise throughout the workshop.

Advanced modeling — parallel/sequential steps, capacity limits, variability, pull control.
Fast runs — sub-second execution, warm-up handling, confidence intervals.
Lean insights — bottleneck identification, waste detection, resource optimization.
Visual analytics — Yamazumi charts, resource timelines, queue analysis, exports.
Ezbelta Digital Twin screenshot

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