Author: Michel Greif
Publisher: Productivity Press
Keywords: happening, key, processes, glance, information, shared, factory, building, participation, visual
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1991-02-01
List price: $65.95
ISBN-10: 0915299674
ISBN-13: 9780915299676

If you’re aware of the tremendous improvements achieved in productivity and quality as a result of employee involvement, then you’ll appreciate the great value of creating a visual factory. This book shows how visual management can make the factory a place where workers and supervisors freely communicate and take improvement action. It details how to develop meeting and communication areas, communicate work standards and instructions, use visual production controls such as kanban, and make goals and progress visible. Includes more than 200 diagrams and photos.

Author: Productivity Press
Publisher: Productivity Press
Keywords: insights, implementation, cases, practices, tools, collected, visual
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2005-12-30
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1563273314
ISBN-13: 9781563273315

Visual tools are an essential part of any lean transformation, and understanding correct application of appropriate tools is crucial. This book clearly illustrates how successful organizations, such as Boeing and Maytag, have implemented visual tools in their operations, as well as their respective achievements and the challenges they faced. Visual Tools: Collected Practices and Cases provides a variety of case studies taken from articles previously published in Lean Manufacturer Advisor - the monthly newsletter by Productivity Press.

Author: Raymond S. Louis
Publisher: Productivity Press
Keywords: environment, process, automation, waste, zero, ultimate, lean, office, creating
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2007-10-05
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 1563273713
ISBN-13: 9781563273711

Manufacturing and service related businesses are heavily dependent on office and administrative processes, which can add up to 60% of all costs associated with meeting customer demand. Applying lean techniques to the office must begin with a new definition of waste, backed by a set of techniques designed to eliminate waste and streamline nonvalue-adding activities.In Creating the Ultimate Lean Office, the definition of waste in the office goes one step further than the lean manufacturing definition, because any office activity that adds value or is necessary to perpetuate the business is consi

Author: Charles J. Robinson; Andrew P. Ginder
Publisher: Productivity Press
Keywords: tpm, approach, implementation, experience, american, north, implementing
Number of Pages: 197
Published: 1995-07-01
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 1563270870
ISBN-13: 9781563270871

The authors document an approach to TPM planning and deployment that modifies the Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance 12-step process to accommodate the experiences of North American plants. They include details and advice on specific deployment steps, OEE calculation methodology, and autonomous maintenance deployment. This book shows how to make TPM work in unionized plants and how to position TPM to support and complement other strategic manufacturing improvement initiatives. More than just an implementation guide, it’s actually a testimonial of proven TPM success in N

Author: Pascal Dennis
Publisher: Productivity Press
Keywords: production, world, powerful, system, guide, plain, simplified, second, lean, language
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2002-08-30
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 1563272628
ISBN-13: 9781563272622

LEAN PRODUCTION SIMPLIFIED A Plain-Language Guide to the World’s Most Powerful Production System Pascal Dennis The author is a professional engineer, and educator with 20 years experience in manufacturing, public service, and consulting engineering. He developed his lean thinking skills on the shop floor of Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada, and working with lean masters in Japan and North America. LEAN PRODUCTION SIMPLIFIED is a plain language guide to the lean production system. The book is organized around a central image: the "house of lean production", which will help the

Authors:Raymond J. Mikulak, Robin McDermott, Michael Beaureg
Publisher: Productivity Press
Keywords: fmea, basics
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 1996
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0527763209
ISBN-13: 9780527763206

Failure mode and effect analyses (FMEAs) can actually help prevent failures, defects, and errors, because FMEAs identify special causes of variation before they occur. This is why the automotive industry’s QS-9000 standard requires their use. But FMEAs are a valuable tool for any industry in which defect prevention is important. The Basics of FMEA: Explains failure mode and effect analysis simply and concisely. Discusses when to use FMEAs (e.g., during design, manufacturing, etc.). Shows how to perform FMEAs step-by-step. The book also discusses the QS-9000 requirement and is

Authors:Shigeo Shingo, Productivity Press Development Team,
Publisher: Productivity Press
Keywords: shopfloor, series, system, smed, changeover, operators, quick
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1996-06-01
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 1563271257
ISBN-13: 9781563271250

The Shopfloor Series puts powerful improvement tools in the hands of an entire workforce. And now Productivity’s all-time bestseller, A Revolution in Manufacturing: The SMED System, is available in a condensed version prepared especially for front-line workers and general interest readers. Quick changeover techniques, the basis for "just-in-time" manufacturing, result in dramatically lower costs and vastly improved product quality. This peerless introduction includes chapter outlines, margin assists, illustrations, and helpful application questions. The late Shigeo Shi