Implementing World Class Manufacturing, Second Edition (Includes Lean Enterprise)
The goal of implementing Lean/World Class Enterprise is to improve and grow American businesses by making them globally competitive.In the Second Edition, the application of the waste elimination techniques of Lean/World Class Manufacturing have been expanded to include all parts of a businesses (the office also) and to all types of business in general.The Second Edition retains all the World Class information from the First Edition:1) Why Implement World Class Manufacturing (WCM) – proof of the need to change2) Implementation Roadblocks You Will Encounter3) Tuning the implementation to Your Facility4) 5S – paving the approach to WCM5) Team Building – unleashing the power of your workforce6) Total Productive Maintenance – improving quality, productivity, and delivery through equipment reliability7) Manufacturing Cells – one piece flow and the key to employee empowerment and ownership8) Setup Reduction – reducing product delivery lead-times and improving your manufacturing capacity9) Kanbans – automating the inventory replenishment cycle10) Kaizen – continuous improvement and kaizen eventsPlus it adds:· Identifying Office Value-Added Activities · Identifying Waste in the Office · 5S for the Office · Value Stream Mapping (VSM) for the Enterprise · Office Cell Design · Office and Enterprise KanbansAnd many additional visuals! This is a "hands-on, how-to" guide to making significant improvements in a business. Uniquely written in a step-by-step format for everyone in the company, Implementing World Class Manufacturing allows everyone in a facility to participate in making the business the best at what it does - now and in the future