The portal to lean production : principles and practices for doing more with less /: principles and practices for doing more with less. (2006)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: John Nicholas, Avi Soni.
• Other Names: Nicholas, John M, 1945-; Soni, Avi
• Contents: Portal to Lean Production; Race with a Moving Finish Line; Awakening to Lean Production; The Portal; The Organization of the Book; ; THE JOURNEY, FIRST STEPS; ; Beginnings; Toyota Production System; Quick History of TPS; TPS and the Portal to Lean Production; ; First Glimpse of a Manufacturing Cell; The Indiana Plant; Cellular Manufacturing; Throughput and Quality; ; Gaining Experience, Broadening the Concept; Trap Cell; Scheduling for Uniform Load; Cell Design; ; Applying the Cell Concept Plantwide; The Revelation; Linked Workcells and Subcells; Implementation; ; BUILDING UP STEAM; ; Kanban; Inventory Mess; Adopting Pull Production; Pull-Production Concepts; Number of Kanbans; Signal and Control: Methods and Issues; ; Total Productive Maintenance; Breakdown in the Trap Cell; Concepts of Maintenance Management; Preventive Maintenance; Total Productive Maintenance; ; Quick Changeover; A Tale of Two Plants; Setup Reduction Concepts and Techniques; SMED Procedure; Techniques for Setup Reduction; Checklist; Attachments and Fasteners; Eliminate Adjustments; Storage; Carts; Setup-Reduction Projects; Component of a Larger System; ; Standard Work; Strange-Looking Charts; Concept of Standard Work; What Is Standard Work?; Critical Role in Kaizen; ; Focused Factories ; Early Focused-Factory Experience; Focused-Factory Team Leaders; A Little Knowledge Can Be…; Clash of the Old and the New; Focused Factory; Microdesign Issues; Clustering Products and Operations; Focused-Factory Organization; ; Customer-Focused Quality; Listening to Your Customers; Customer Complaint; Statistical Variation; Experimentation; Awakening; Road to Six Sigma; Quality Assurance in Lean Production; Problem-Solving Tools; Statistical Process Control; Nonstatistical Process Control; Quality at the Source; Quality Improvement and TPS; ; SUSTAINING MOMENTUM; ; Employee Involvement, Workplace Organization, Kaizen; Employee Involvement and Workplace Organization; Value Stream Mapping; Main Vent Assembly Cell; ; Supply-Chain Partnerships; Learning from Our Suppliers; Problems with Parts; Building Bonds with a Supplier; Building Bonds in the Supply Chain; Supply-Chain Concept; The Lean Supply Chain; Partner Relationships; Little Customer, Big Supplier; This Can Be Difficult; ; The Lean Enterprise; Product Design; Lean Product Development; Process Engineering; Purchasing Function; Accounting and Finance; Sales and Marketing; Human Resources; ; Lean Culture Transformation; Organization Culture; Role of Management; Sustaining Momentum; Transformational Leadership; Mistakes; Closing Thoughts; ; APPENDIX A: Glossary
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton, FL : Taylor & Francis
• Publication Date: 2006
• Extent: 1 online resource (xviii, 323 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 658.5; Production management; Manufacturing processes; Production control; Just-in-time systems; Production -- Gestion; Fabrication; Production -- Contrôle; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industrial Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management Science; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Organizational Behavior; Just-in-time systems; Manufacturing processes; Production control; Production management; Productieprocessen; Voorraadbeheer; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781420031096; 1420031090
• Related ISBNs: 084935031X; 9780849350313
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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