Lean Manufacturing: Implementation Strategies that Work: A Roadmap to Quick and Lasting Success
Divided into three basic sections, this unique resource provides an understandable and implementable approach to inserting Lean in a manufacturing operation, pointing out the stumbling blocks and pitfalls to avoid. Its goal is to to help American manufacturing more effectively go about the task of making Lean a viable process. The significance of the work is that, if followed, it could change the entire course of how Lean Manufacturing is implemented in the United States and help...
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Provides readers with a clear path to inserting Lean in a manufacturing operation and a step by step approach to getting there.Includes numerous charts, graphs and window diagrams associated with the "how to" - along with specific training, schedules.Offers some unique insight into where Toyota placed a very important focus verses what is typically understood and/or accepted as the general path of implementation it took.Contains a list of important "Key Reflections" at the end of each chapter.
Foreword viiIntroduction xiChapter 1 The Basic Flaws and Misconceptions About Lean 1Chapter 2 As A Plant's Equipment Goes, So Goes Lean 39Chapter 3 Accepting The Need For Change 61Chapter 4 Setting the Stage 89Chapter 5 Examining Level One Lean In Closer Detail 117Chapter 6 The Search for Greatness 149References 175Index 177
