Running Today's Factory: A Proven Strategy for Lean Manufacturing

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Author: Charles Standard

ISBN-10: 1569902577

ISBN-13: 9781569902578

Category: Facility Management

Running Today's Factory by Charles Standard and Dale Davis presents a proven approach to manufacturing management using scientific reasoning, clever analogies, and practical case examples. It strips away the mystery of lean manufacturing and provides clear principles for running today's factory. The authors use their extensive experience to illustrate how lean thinking leads to good manufacturing decisions that can be backed up with sound scientific reasoning.\ The manufacturing strategies...

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Running Today's Factory by Charles Standard and Dale Davis presents a proven approach to manufacturing management using scientific reasoning, clever analogies, and practical case examples. It strips away the mystery of lean manufacturing and provides clear principles for running today's factory. The authors use their extensive experience to illustrate how lean thinking leads to good manufacturing decisions that can be backed up with sound scientific reasoning. Booknews Manufacturing management consultants emphasize the underlying principles of lean manufacturing as a systematic philosophy of production. They say their program can especially help small and medium companies become more competitive. The challenge, factory physics basics, operational stability and continual improvement, quality at the source, and measuring are among the concerns they address. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Introduction The Manufacturing Challenge What's So Tough About Running a Factory? Lean Manufacturing Overview Factory Physics Basics Manufacturing as a Management Strategy Operational Stability and Continual Improvement Just-In-Time Production Pull Production Control Achieving Quality at the Source Quick Setup and Small Lot Production Measuring Today's Factory Transforming Today's Factory

\ BooknewsManufacturing management consultants emphasize the underlying principles of lean manufacturing as a systematic philosophy of production. They say their program can especially help small and medium companies become more competitive. The challenge, factory physics basics, operational stability and continual improvement, quality at the source, and measuring are among the concerns they address. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \