Lean Production Simplified (3rd Edition)
Lean Production Simplified: A Plain-Language Guide to the World's Most Powerful Production System (3rd Edition) by Pascal Dennis
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1498708870 | 249 Pages | EPUB, MOBI, PDF | 13.0 MB
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1498708870 | 249 Pages | EPUB, MOBI, PDF | 13.0 MB
Following in the tradition of its Shingo Prize-winning predecessors, Lean Production Simplified, Third Edition gives a clear overview of the structure and tools of the Lean production system. Written for the practitioner by a practitioner, it delivers a comprehensive insider's view of Lean management.
The author helps readers grasp the system as a whole, as well as the factors that animate it, by organizing the book around an image of a house of Lean production. Illustrating the eight kinds of waste, this updated edition of a bestseller:
- Describes the craft and mass production systems that preceded Lean production―including the contributions of Frederick Winslow Taylor and Henry Ford
- Explains the concepts of visual management, Five S, and Total Productive Maintenance
- Addresses just-in-time delivery of parts and products
- Examines the jidoka principle
- Covers the nervous system of Lean management, hoshin planning
- Illustrates the culture of Lean management