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Implementing Lean

Author Daniel Protzman , Fred Whiton , Charles W. Protzman
Release Date: 2018/09/01
ISBN: 9781351645133
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Book Description

Everyone has heard the phrase about doing twice the work in half the time, but instead of focusing only on time, this book focuses on driving increased output with consistently less input. Implementing Lean: Twice the Output with Half the Input! teaches readers not only about Lean and its major concepts, but it drives the leader toward implementing a true Lean system.

The authors have used the methodologies in this book everywhere from hospitals to service industries to manufacturing plants in order to impact businesses by providing proven principles, techniques, and approaches that yield substantial improvement to any business, small or large, in any sector.

Learn about the benefits of implementing Lean in your company as the authors walk you through the major components as well as show you how to implement them. This guide is already being used by Lean Practitioners every day on shop floors to educate and refresh how tools are used in real-world applications.

Table of Contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. 1 The Lean Business Delivery System
  8. 2 Learning from Toyota: Lean Philosophy and Foundations
  9. 3 Lean Accounting and Accounting for Lean
  10. 4 Our Misguided Allegiance to the Batching Paradigm
  11. 5 Waste versus Efficiency
  12. 6 The Lean Assessment
  13. 7 Lean and Change Management
  14. 8 Transitioning to a Lean Leader
  15. 9 Getting Ready to Implement a Lean System
  16. 10 BASICS Model: Baseline Data and VSM
  17. 11 BASICS: From Assess—Product-Flow Analysis (TIPS)
  18. 12 BASICS Model Assessment: Workflow Analysis—Following the Operator (Staff)
  19. 13 BASICS Model Assessment—SMED: Single-Minute Exchange of Die (SMED)
  20. 14 The BASICS Model: Suggest Solutions
  21. 15 Creating Standard Work
  22. 16 System-Based Lean Implementation Approach Utilizing the BASICS Model—Kaikaku
  23. 17 Hoshin Kanri: Strategic Planning/Policy Deployment
  24. 18 Lean Transactional Processes
  25. 19 Lean Machine Shops and Job Shops
  26. 20 Visual Management
  27. 21 Heijunka, Planning and Scheduling, Sequencing Activities, Mixed Model
  28. 22 Lean +QDIP, and Huddles
  29. 23 Lean Materials
  30. 24 Lean and Engineering—DFM/A
  31. 25 Mistake-Proofing
  32. 26 Total Productive Maintenance
  33. 27 BASICS Model: Check and Sustain
  34. Acronyms
  35. Glossary
  36. Index