How to implement lean manufacturing
By: Lonnie Wilson.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill; McGraw-Hill Professional
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780071625074
Subjects: Production control; Lean manufacturing
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is the perspective of this book?; title: Lean manufacturing and the Toyota production system; title: Inventory and variation; title: Lean manufacturing simplified; title: The significance of lead time; title: How to do lean; title: cultural change fundamentals; title: How to do lean; title: the four strategies to becoming lean; title: How to implement lean; title: the prescription for the lean project; title: Planning and goals; title: Sustaining the gains; title: Cultures; title: Constraint management; title: Cellular manufacturing; title: The story of the Alpha Line; title: The story of the Bravo Line : a tale of reduced lead times and lots of early gains; title: Using the prescription; title: three case studies; title: The precursors to lean not handled well; title: An experiment in variation, dependent events, and inventory; title: Assessment tools; title: A house of lean; title: Glossary.