Beyond lean production : emphasizing speed and innovation to beat the competition /: emphasizing speed and innovation to beat the competition. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Roger G. Lewandowski.
• Authors: Lewandowski, Roger
• Contents: Introduction; ; Phase 1 Holding Actions; Introduction; Highlights of Key Items; Holding Action First; Tool 1: Continuous Flow Manufacturing; Tool 2: High-Velocity Working Capital; Tool 3: Process Utilization: Total Team Game Plan; Tool 4: Pull Systems; Push Your Production Forecast out the Door and Pull in Customer Satisfaction; Tool 5: Root Cause Analysis; Tool 6: Single-Minute Exchange of Dies; Tool 7: Strategic Business Units An Old Idea Updated Makes Sense: Saves People, Space, and Overhead Important Points Conclusion; Tool 8: Zero-Based Process Mapping Ten Steps to Process Mapping; Tool 9: Strategic Kanbans; Tool 10: Accelerated Return on Kaizen (ARK) Necessity Is the Mother of Invention Summary; Tool 11: Supply Chain Management; Tool 12: Inventory Turns Control A Items B Items; C Items; Tool 13: Mall Theory; Summary for Phase 1: Holding Actions; ; Phase 2 The Business Command Center ; Introduction to the Business Command Center; Bold Breakthrough that Will Make You Rethink Your Leadership; The Business Command Center; What Is a Business Command Center?; Implementing the Business Command Center; Key Points of the Circulatory Management Chart; Special Points; Circulatory Management; Business Command Center: Leadership; How Do You Organize Control of the Command Center?; Summary; What Are the Benefits of Having a Business Command Center?; Future Possibilities; Field Sales Organization; Distribution Centers; Closing Thoughts; Further Information and Homework; Advanced Value Stream Mapping; Accounting: The Dictators of Corporations or Forgotten Priests? What Should Its Role Be?; U.S. Product Engineering: Is It a Misdirected Missile as It Is Now Organized?; Industrial Engineering: The Forgotten Function?; ; Index;
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Productivity Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 658.51; Lean manufacturing; Manufacturing processes -- Cost control
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781482215830; 1482215837
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