How To Implement Lean Manufacturing

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How to Implement Lean Manufacturing, Second Edition

by: Lonnie Wilson
Abstract: A practical guide on how to truly implement Lean Manufacturing enterprise wide. Lean manufacturing is a powerful formula for eliminating waste, controlling quality and inventory, and improving overall performance with the promise of huge early gains. This prescriptive guide offers real-world solutions for implementing lean manufacturing in the enterprise, covering the technical, engineering, and production aspects as well as the business culture concerns. How To Implement Lean Manufacturing specifies the distinct order in which a company should implement lean, and discusses common reasons why certain companies have failed in their implementations. Global case studies help readers easily apply these situations to their own companies.
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Table of Contents
- A. About the Author
- B. Preface
- C. Acknowledgments
- 1. What Is the Perspective of This Book?
- 2. Lean Manufacturing and the Toyota Production System
- 3. Inventory and Variation
- 4. Lean Manufacturing Simplified
- 5. The Significance of Lead Time
- 6. How to Do Lean—Cultural Change Fundamentals
- 7. How to Do Lean—The Four Strategies to Becoming Lean
- 8. How to Implement Lean—The Prescription for the Lean Project
- 9. Planning and Goals
- 10. Sustaining the Gains
- 11. Cultures
- 12. Constraint Management
- 13. Cellular Manufacturing
- 14. The Story of the Alpha Line
- 15. The Story of the Bravo Line: A Tale of Reduced Lead Times and Lots of Early Gains
- 16. Using the Prescription—Three Case Studies
- 17. The Precursors to Lean Not Handled Well
- 18. An Experiment in Variation, Dependent Events, and Inventory
- 19. Assessment Tools
- 20. A House of Lean
- A. Glossary
- B. Bibliography
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Expanded Table of Contents
- A. About the Author
- B. Preface
- C. Acknowledgments
- 1. What Is the Perspective of This Book?
- 2. Lean Manufacturing and the Toyota Production System
- The Popular Definition of Lean
- What Is Lean?
- What Did Ohno Say about the Toyota Production System?
- The TPS and Lean Manufacturing Defined
- Who Developed the TPS?
- The Two Pillars of the TPS
- What Is Really Different about the TPS?
- The Behavioral Definition
- The Business Definition
- Several Revolutionary Concepts in the TPS
- The TPS Is Not a Complete Manufacturing System
- A Critical and Comparative Analysis of Various Philosophies
- Where Lean Will Not Work… or Not Work Quite so Well
- Chapter Summary
- 3. Inventory and Variation
- 4. Lean Manufacturing Simplified
- 5. The Significance of Lead Time
- 6. How to Do Lean—Cultural Change Fundamentals
- 7. How to Do Lean—The Four Strategies to Becoming Lean
- 8. How to Implement Lean—The Prescription for the Lean Project
- An Overview on How to Implement Lean
- A Key Question to the Implementation
- Assess the Three Fundamental Issues to Cultural Change
- Complete a Systemwide Evaluation of the Present State
- Perform an Educational Evaluation
- Document the Current Condition
- Redesign to Reduce Wastes
- Evaluate and Determine the Goals for This Line
- Implement the Kaizen Activities
- Evaluate the Newly Formed Present State, Stress the System, Then Return to Step 1
- Lean Goals
- What to Do with the Plan?
- Chapter Summary
- The Second Commitment Evaluation of Management Commitment
- 9. Planning and Goals
- 10. Sustaining the Gains
- 11. Cultures
- 12. Constraint Management
- 13. Cellular Manufacturing
- 14. The Story of the Alpha Line
- 15. The Story of the Bravo Line: A Tale of Reduced Lead Times and Lots of Early Gains
- 16. Using the Prescription—Three Case Studies
- Why These Case Studies?
- Lean Preparation Done Well: The Story of Larana Manufacturing
- The Zeta Cell: A Great Example of Applying the Four Strategies to Reduce Waste and Achieve Huge Early Gains
- The Case of the QED Motors Company: Another Great Example of Huge Early Gains on an Entire Value Stream
- Applying the Second Prescription at QED Motors—How to Implement Lean
- 17. The Precursors to Lean Not Handled Well
- 18. An Experiment in Variation, Dependent Events, and Inventory
- 19. Assessment Tools
- 20. A House of Lean
- A. Glossary
- B. Bibliography
Book Details
Title: How To Implement Lean Manufacturing
Publisher: : New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Mexico City, Milan, New Delhi, San Juan, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Toronto
Copyright / Pub. Date: 2010 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc
ISBN: 9780071625074
Authors:
Lonnie Wilson is the author of this McGraw-Hill Professional publication.
Description: A practical guide on how to truly implement Lean Manufacturing enterprise wide. Lean manufacturing is a powerful formula for eliminating waste, controlling quality and inventory, and improving overall performance with the promise of huge early gains. This prescriptive guide offers real-world solutions for implementing lean manufacturing in the enterprise, covering the technical, engineering, and production aspects as well as the business culture concerns. How To Implement Lean Manufacturing specifies the distinct order in which a company should implement lean, and discusses common reasons why certain companies have failed in their implementations. Global case studies help readers easily apply these situations to their own companies.