Lean production simplified
Subtitle: a plain language guide to the world's most powerful production system
By: Pascal Dennis ; with a foreword by John Shook.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Productivity Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781563273568
Subjects: Production management; Manufacturing processes; Production control; Just-in-time systems
Table of contents: title: The birth of lean production. Craft production. The mass production system. The growing dysfunction. The birth of lean production; title: The lean production system. Why lean production? Systems and systems thinking. Basic image of lean production. Muda; title: Stability. Standards in the lean system. Visual management. The five S system. Total productive maintenance; title: Standardized work. Why standardized work? The elements of standardized work. Standardized work and kaizen. The importance of layout; title: Just-in-time. why JIT? Flow and pull. Kanban and heijunka. Types of pull systems. Value stream management; title: Jidoka. Why jidoka? Using pokayokes. Source inspection. Implementing jidoka; title: Involvement. Why involvement? Kaizen circle activity. Practical kaizen training. Suggestion systems. Sustaining involvement; title: Hoshin planning. Problems with conventional planning. The hoshin planning system. Creating flow in strategic planning.