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How to implement lean manufacturing /

This is 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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wilson, Lonnie, 1947- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, N.Y. : McGraw-Hill Education, [2010]
Edición:First edition.
Colección:McGraw-Hill's AccessEngineering.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What is the perspective of this book?
  • Lean manufacturing and the Toyota production system
  • Inventory and variation
  • Lean manufacturing simplified
  • The significance of lead time
  • How to do lean--cultural change fundamentals
  • How to do lean--the four strategies to becoming lean
  • How to implement lean--the prescription for the lean project
  • Planning and goals
  • Sustaining the gains
  • Cultures
  • Constraint management
  • Cellular manufacturing
  • The story of the Alpha Line
  • The story of the Bravo Line : a tale of reduced lead times and lots of early gains
  • Using the prescription--three case studies
  • The precursors to lean not handled well
  • An experiment in variation, dependent events, and inventory
  • Assessment tools
  • A house of lean
  • Glossary.