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Grow Your Factory, Grow Your Profits
Lean for Small and Medium-Sized Manufacturing Enterprises
- 175 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Grow Your Factory, Grow Your Profits
Lean for Small and Medium-Sized Manufacturing Enterprises
About this book
When I was first given the job of managing a small plastics factory back in 1989, I quickly realized that most of the books and teaching on Lean Manufacturing were designed for big companies and were not relevant to my factory.Tim McleanThe last 25 years has seen Tim lead and assist over 100 small to medium-sized enterprise (SME) manufacturing ope
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Introduction: About This Book
- Chapter 1: One Size Does Not Fit All
- Chapter 2: What Is Lean Manufacturing, and What Has It Got to Do with Small and Medium-Sized Manufacturers?
- Chapter 3: Deciding Where to Start Your Lean Journey
- Chapter 4: Make Your Product Flow: Redesign Your Process
- Chapter 5: Getting the Right Layout and Equipment
- Chapter 6: Developing an Organizational Structure and the Leadership to Sustain It
- Chapter 7: Measuring Success: Selecting the Right Metrics
- Chapter 8: What Do I Make Next? The Keys to Production Planning
- Chapter 9: What I Need When I Need It: Managing Materials
- Chapter 10: Developing Your Team
- Chapter 11: Locking in the Gains: The Need for Standardization
- Chapter 12: Resourcing the Change
- Glossary of Lean Terms
- Back Cover