Lean production simplified : a plain language guide to the world`s most powerful production system /
Dennis, Pascal, 1957-
Lean production simplified : a plain language guide to the world's most powerful production system / Pascal Dennis ; with a foreword by John Shook. - 2nd ed. - New York : Productivity Press, c2007 - 176 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
The birth of lean production. Craft production. The mass production system. The growing dysfunction. The birth of lean production -- The lean production system. Why lean production? Systems and systems thinking. Basic image of lean production. Muda -- Stability. Standards in the lean system. Visual management. The five S system. Total productive maintenance -- Standardized work. Why standardized work? The elements of standardized work. Standardized work and kaizen. The importance of layout -- Just-in-time. why JIT? Flow and pull. Kanban and heijunka. Types of pull systems. Value stream management -- Jidoka. Why jidoka? Using pokayokes. Source inspection. Implementing jidoka -- Involvement. Why involvement? Kaizen circle activity. Practical kaizen training. Suggestion systems. Sustaining involvement -- Hoshin planning. Problems with conventional planning. The hoshin planning system. Creating flow in strategic planning.
9781563273568 (pbk.) RM109.31
2007-273962
Production management.
Manufacturing processes.
Production control.
Just-in-time systems.
TS155 / .D472 2007
Lean production simplified : a plain language guide to the world's most powerful production system / Pascal Dennis ; with a foreword by John Shook. - 2nd ed. - New York : Productivity Press, c2007 - 176 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
The birth of lean production. Craft production. The mass production system. The growing dysfunction. The birth of lean production -- The lean production system. Why lean production? Systems and systems thinking. Basic image of lean production. Muda -- Stability. Standards in the lean system. Visual management. The five S system. Total productive maintenance -- Standardized work. Why standardized work? The elements of standardized work. Standardized work and kaizen. The importance of layout -- Just-in-time. why JIT? Flow and pull. Kanban and heijunka. Types of pull systems. Value stream management -- Jidoka. Why jidoka? Using pokayokes. Source inspection. Implementing jidoka -- Involvement. Why involvement? Kaizen circle activity. Practical kaizen training. Suggestion systems. Sustaining involvement -- Hoshin planning. Problems with conventional planning. The hoshin planning system. Creating flow in strategic planning.
9781563273568 (pbk.) RM109.31
2007-273962
Production management.
Manufacturing processes.
Production control.
Just-in-time systems.
TS155 / .D472 2007