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Fundamentals of Daily Shop Floor Management A Guide for Manufacturing Optimization and Excellence

Fundamentals of Daily Shop Floor Management A Guide for Manufacturing Optimization and Excellence

Survival and thriving in today’s business environment require companies to continuously strive for operational excellence at all levels of the organization. Simply working to maintain existing operations is not an adequate or sustainable business strategy especially when competing in a global market. To remain relevant companies must adopt a process control and continuous improvement mentality as an integral part of their daily work activities. These two operational disciplines form the foundation and stepping stones for manufacturing excellence. Processes must be stable capable and controlled as a prerequisite for sustainable improvement. Sustainable improvements must be strategic continuous and focused on process optimization. Modern-day manufacturing is rapidly changing in the face of technological geopolitical social and environmental developments. These challenges are altering the way we think and act to transform raw materials into finished goods. Meeting these challenges requires particular attention to how we develop and engage people and apply technology for long-term sustainability and competitive advantage. This book takes you on a journey to explore the fundamental elements management practices improvement methods and future direction of shop floor management. Part 1 of this five-part book considers workplace culture organizational structure operational discipline and employee accountability as the foundation for a robust manufacturing system. Part 2 studies the impact of process standardization data analytics information sharing communication and people on daily shop floor management. Once the management system has been adequately described Part 3 concentrates on its effective execution monitoring and control with a deep look into the people methods machines materials and environment that make it possible. Like every good manufacturing text efficiency and productivity are key topics. That’s why Part 4 explores various methods tools and techniques associated with product and process development productivity improvement agile methods shop floor optimization and manufacturing excellence. The final section Part 5 shifts focus to emerging technologies engaging the reader to contemplate technology’s impact on the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry. | Fundamentals of Daily Shop Floor Management A Guide for Manufacturing Optimization and Excellence

GBP 38.99
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The Toyota Mindset The Ten Commandments of Taiichi Ohno

The Toyota Mindset The Ten Commandments of Taiichi Ohno

From the brilliant mind of a legend in the Lean Manufacturing world comes the reasoning behind the importance of using your intellect challenging your workers and why continuous improvement is not only a helpful tool but a necessity on the shop floor. Mr. Wakamatsu recounts captivating first hand experiences with the man who changed the way the world looks at manufacturing. | The Toyota Mindset The Ten Commandments of Taiichi Ohno

GBP 28.99
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5S Office Training Package (Spanish)

5S Office Training Package (Spanish)

Lean organizations know that for a 5S program to be successful there needs to be implementation throughout all areas of the business. Marketing design accounting engineering and other departments benefit from 5S just as much as the shop floor. Enna understands the importance and difficulties of transferring a 5S program to the worker so we have developed a solution for companies wishing to begin or sustain a 5S office program. | 5S Office Training Package (Spanish)

GBP 375.00
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Classic Kaizen Workshop Facilitator Guide

Classic Kaizen Workshop Facilitator Guide

Enna's Classic Kaizen Workshop Facilitator Guide is designed with all company employees in mind and for you to perform the workshop away from the shop floor. When it comes to creating a Kaizen mindset within your organization effective communication and training are paramount. The key to sustaining continuous improvement within a Kaizen system is having the ability to train and conduct a Kaizen workshop internally. For this to take place internal trainers require a practical and information rich guide to maximize their efforts.

GBP 240.00
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5S Office Version 1 Facilitator Guide

5S Office Version 1 Facilitator Guide

Enna's 5S Office Facilitator Guide is designed with the worker in mind and to allow for the performance of the workshop away from the shop floor. When it comes to managing sustainable change within your organization effective communication and training are paramount. The key to sustainable success in a Office 5S program is having the ability to train and conduct workshops internally. For this to take place internal trainers require a practical and information rich guide to maximize their efforts. | 5S Office Version 1 Facilitator Guide

GBP 200.00
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The Basics of Line Balancing and JIT Kitting

The Basics of Line Balancing and JIT Kitting

Accessible to the Lean novice and shop floor employee The Basics of Line Balancing and JIT Kitting explores line balancing and the pre-assembly of components into a finished product in a just-in-time fashion (JIT Kitting). It explains how to use time studies develop yamazumi charts discover and eliminate waste balance your line and create new standard work content for the shop floor. The book facilitates a clear understanding of the seven deadly wastes (muda) as well as what you can do to eliminate them from your facility. Describing the purpose and use of standard work it explains how to properly staff work cells and how to develop flex plans for fluctuations in demand using this data. The first few chapters explain how to determine takt time and how to use that information along with time studies to identify when you are not meeting customer demand. The chapters on JIT Kitting explain how there are other advantages to kitting besides eliminating waste and increasing productivity. The book explains how you can use JIT Kitting to improve quality by having the parts available and limiting the options of numerous parts to the operator. It also provides the understanding needed to ensure the right parts are installed thereby correcting issues with the build of materials.

GBP 170.00
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LeanSpeak The Productivity Business Improvement Dictionary

LeanSpeak The Productivity Business Improvement Dictionary

This dictionary specific to lean business processes contains over 500 terms used in lean management and manufacturing. Easy to access accurate and comprehensive LeanSpeak will become the desktop tool of choice for lean manufacturing practitioners from the shop floor to the corner office. Here are some examples of entries in LeanSpeak:gemba: Japanese word of which the literal translation is the real place. In the manufacturing field gemba means the shop floor where the actual product is being made as contrasted to the office where support services are provided. lean: shorthand to refer to a lean manufacturing system of which the Toyota Production System is the foremost example that has relatively little non-value-adding waste and maximum flow. The term has been used pejoratively to refer to anti-labor practices intending to reduce the number of workers within a company and to strong-arm tactics with suppliers. takt time: the rate at which product must be turned out to satisfy market demand. It is determined by dividing the available production time by the rate of customer demand. For example if customers demand 240 widgets per day and the factory operates 480 minutes per day takt time is two minutes. If customers want two new products designed per month takt time is two weeks. It is a calculated number not a reflection of your capability. It sets the pace of production to match the rate of customer demand. Also available as an ebook in Microsoft Reader Adobe Acrobat Reader or Palm Reader formats. | LeanSpeak The Productivity Business Improvement Dictionary

GBP 170.00
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5S for the Office Organizing the Workplace to Eliminate Waste

5S for the Office Organizing the Workplace to Eliminate Waste

Although office and administrative activities are usually 60 percent of the production costs in most manufacturing organizations these areas often get excluded during lean initiatives. To achieve lean office activities must fully support shop floor manufacturing operations to eliminate waste. The adoption of 5S throughout all office and administrative functions is the first step to increase efficiency. In 5S for the Office: Organizing the Workplace to Eliminate Waste Tom Fabrizio and Don Tapping bring the concepts of the 5S System - effective tools for the elimination of waste on the shop floor - into the office environment. The activities at the heart of 5S for the Office (organizing ordering cleaning standardizing and sustaining all of these) are completely logical. They are the basic rules for managing any effective workplace. However it is the systematic method with which the 5S system approaches these activities that makes it unique. This book is a blueprint for building a Lean foundation for your office Readers of this book can immediately apply the concepts of 5S to their office and administrative activities resulting in the elimination of waste reduced production costs and increased profits. To introduce the 5S system and sell its use to executives as well as workers consider purchasing - ; 5S System: An Introduction DVD Catalog no. PP5934 Adhering to the principle of efficiency that defines this revolutionary and proven system this video succinctly explains what is involved who should participate and what it will take to get started. | 5S for the Office Organizing the Workplace to Eliminate Waste

GBP 170.00
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Office Lean Understanding and Implementing Flow in a Professional and Administrative Environment

Office Lean Understanding and Implementing Flow in a Professional and Administrative Environment

Struggling to apply Lean effectively in your office environment? Office Lean is a book for anyone who wants to apply Lean better in contexts where the work is both intangible and complex. it explains in simple terms what Lean is - and what Lean isn’t - enabling office professionals to understand how it can be successfully applied to their complex office-based work environments. Contrary to popular opinion Lean is not only for mass manufacturing or healthcare. It applies just as much to the digital world of knowledge work industries such as banking and financial services software development and government. But the fundamental concepts straight from the factory floor need a fair amount of translation to be effectively applied in cube farms. Overturning the common perception that Lean is about imposing rigid rules or simply eliminating waste in the name of efficiency Eakin presents Lean as a dynamic flexible people-centric philosophy that delivers outstanding business results by improving employee engagement and customer experience. Office Lean helps Lean practitioners (leaders/managers and coaches/consultants) working in professional office environments access the amazing transformative results Lean can bring to their specific domains. It combines clear explanations of the core concepts of the Lean philosophy with relevant practical examples from the fields of accounting finance insurance IT and government. | Office Lean Understanding and Implementing Flow in a Professional and Administrative Environment

GBP 31.99
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