Becoming Lean: Inside Stories of U.S. Manufacturers
What is Lean?\ Pure and simple, lean is reducing the time from customer order to manufacturing by eliminating non-value-added waste in the production stream. The ideal of a lean system is one-piece flow, because a lean manufacturer is continuously improving.\ Most other books on lean management focus on technical methods and offer a picture of how a lean system should look like. Other books provide snapshots of companies before and after lean was implemented.\ This is the first book to...
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What is Lean?Pure and simple, lean is reducing the time from customer order to manufacturing by eliminating non-value-added waste in the production stream. The ideal of a lean system is one-piece flow, because a lean manufacturer is continuously improving.Most other books on lean management focus on technical methods and offer a picture of how a lean system should look like. Other books provide snapshots of companies before and after lean was implemented.This is the first book to provide technical descriptions of successful solutions and performance improvements. It's also the first book to go beyond snapshots and includes powerful first-hand accounts of the complete process of change; its impact on the entire organization; and the rewards and benefits of becoming lean.At the heart of Becoming Lean are the stories of American manufacturers that have successfully implemented lean methods. The writers offer personalized accounts of their organization's lean transformation. You have a unique opportunity to go inside the implementation process and see what worked, what didn't, and why. Booknews This volume, touting Lean Production, provides an explanation of the philosophy itself and compiles stories, recounted by the CEOs, consultants, and plant managers, from a variety of successful manufacturing companies that have implemented Lean Production. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Publisher's Message ixForeword xiii Acknowledgments xvii PART ONE: Lean Manufacturing-Is It Transferrable? 3 1. Introduction: Bringing Lean Back to the U.S.A. 3 2. Bringing the Toyota Production System to the United States: A Personal Perspective 41 3. Japanese Education and Its Role in Kaizen 71 4. Lean Manufacturing Practices at Small and Medium-Sized U.S. Parts Suppliers Does It Work? 103 PART TWO: Case Studies of Implementing Lean 121 5. Transforming a Plant to Lean in a Large, Traditional Company: Delphi Saginaw Steering Systems, GM 121 6. Making Leather Learner: The Garden State Tanning Story 161 7. Learning About Lean Systems at Freudenberg-NOK: Where Continuous Improvement Is a Way of Life 179 8. The Donnelly Production System: Lean at Grand Haven 201 9. Implementing Lean Manufacturing at Gelman Sciences, Inc. 247 10. Cedar Works: Making the Transition to Lean 303 11. Operational Excellence: A Manufacturing Metamorphosis at Western Geophysical Exploration Products 389 PART THREE: Managing the Change Process 409 12. The Successes and Failures of Implementing Continuous Improvement Programs: Cases of Seven Automotive Parts Suppliers 409 13. Lean Production The Challenge of Multidimensional Change 457 14. Crossroads: Which Way Will You Turn on the Road to Lean? 477 15. Conclusion: What We Have Learned About Becoming Lean 497 Index 519
\ BooknewsThis volume, touting Lean Production, provides an explanation of the philosophy itself and compiles stories, recounted by the CEOs, consultants, and plant managers, from a variety of successful manufacturing companies that have implemented Lean Production. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.\ \
