How To Implement Lean ManufacturingA Practical, Hands-on Guide to Lean Manufacturing This real-world resource offers proven solutions for implementing lean manufacturing in an enterprise environment, covering the engineering and production aspects as well as the business culture concerns. Filled with detailed examples, the book focuses on the rapid application of lean principles so that large, early financial gains can be made. How to Implement Lean Manufacturing explains Toyota Production System (TPS) practices and specifies the distinct order in which lean techniques should be applied to achieve maximum gains. Global case studies illustrate successes and pitfalls of lean manufacturing initiatives. Discover how to:
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... simple. If you have teenagers, all too often they fall into this category. Unfortunately, many managers also reside there. Fueled by success stories that are simplified by TV and literature in which—in a world of instant gratification ...
... simple, they can typically be expressed in only a few words. • Second, the application of Lean concepts has been reduced to a simple prescription—a prescription that, once the concepts are understood, can be readily applied to a wide ...
... simple sentences. As a result, the depth of his statements often goes unnoticed by those just beginning their study of Lean or the Toyota Production System (TPS). Thus, Ohno is often misunderstood. Worse, some of what he says goes ...
... simple as they can be and, where applicable, these principles are reduced to Points of Clarity. Second, this book is written primarily from an engineering viewpoint. Lean Manufacturing, also known as the Toyota Production System (TPS) ...
... simple inventory control system. What's surprising to a large number of practitioners is that at the heart of quantity control—at the heart of JIT—is a deep understanding and control of variation. fter 1955, however, the question became ...
Contents
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3 Inventory and Variation | 41 |
4 Lean Manufacturing Simplified | 59 |
5 The Significance of Lead Time | 73 |
6 How to Do LeanCultural Change Fundamentals | 87 |
7 How to Do LeanThe Four Strategies to Becoming Lean | 111 |
8 How to Implement LeanThe Prescription for the Lean Project | 135 |
13 Cellular Manufacturing | 195 |
14 The Story of the Alpha Line | 211 |
A Tale of Reduced Lead Times and Lots of Early Gains | 221 |
16 Using the PrescriptionThree Case Studies | 235 |
17 The Precursors to Lean Not Handled Well | 273 |
18 An Experiment in Variation Dependent Events and Inventory | 285 |
19 Assessment Tools | 291 |
20 A House of Lean | 299 |
9 Planning and Goals | 153 |
10 Sustaining the Gains | 163 |
11 Cultures | 179 |
12 Constraint Management | 189 |
Glossary | 301 |
Bibliography | 309 |
Index | 311 |