- 416 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Selecting the Right Manufacturing Improvement Tools offers an easy-to-read and comprehensive review of the most important current industrial improvement tools that every manufacturing or industrial executive, operational manager or engineer needs to know, including which tool to use for a particular type of manufacturing situation. But his book goes beyond a simple comparison of improvement tools to show how these tools can be implemented and supported. Instead, it offers a broader strategic explanation of how they relate to one another, and their relative strengths and weaknesses in the larger context of the entire enterprise. It demonstrates how to use these tools in an integrated way such that they are not just be viewed as another "program of the month or management fad. Selecting the Right Manufacturing Improvement Tools guides the use of these individual management tools within the need for aligning the organization, developing leadership, and managing change, all for creating an environment where these tools will be more successfully applied.- Provides an excellent review of the most popular improvement tools and strategies - Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen, including 5S, Kanban, Quick Changeover, and Standardization, Total Productive Maintenance, Six Sigma, Supply Chain Management, Reliability Centered Maintenance, Predictive Maintenance (or Condition Monitoring), and Root Cause Analysis.- Illustrates the use of each tool with case studies, using a fictitious company called "Beta International, " which continues its journey to business excellence from author's previous book, Making Common Sense Common Practice- Describes the foundational elements necessary for any tool to work - leadership, organizational alignment and discipline, teamwork, performance measurement, change management, and the role of innovation.- Concludes with a recommended hierarchy for the use of the various tools, and provides enough information so that individual circumstances and issues can be related to these improvement tools, making better decisions and having greater business success.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Selecting the Right Manufacturing Improvement Tools: What Tool? When?
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Aligning the Organization
- Chapter 3: Innovation
- Chapter 4: Leadership and Teams
- Chapter 5: Managing Change
- Chapter 6: Business Level Failure Models and Effects Analysis: Selecting the Right Improvement Projects and Tools
- Chapter 7: Lean Manufacturing
- Chapter 8: Kaizen
- Chapter 9: Total Productive Maintenance
- Chapter 10: Six Sigma
- Chapter 11: Supply Chain Management
- Chapter 12: Reliability-Centered Maintenance
- Chapter 13: Predictive Maintenance/Condition Monitoring
- Chapter 14: Root Cause Analysis
- Chapter 15: Closing
- Appendix A: Planning and Scheduling
- Appendix B: Performance Measurement
- Appendix C: Listing of Commonly Used Improvement Tools and Terms
- Index