Lean Manufacturing: A Plant Floor Guide

About this book

Written by the prominent consulting firm Total Systems Development Inc. (TSD) Lean Manufacturing: A Plant Floor Guide is a complete inventory of the elements needed for successful implementation. It provides an overview and a specific rationale for your initiative. It is an easy-to-digest reference to aspects of lean that you may not have known about. Its a virtual toolbox of information that can be readily put to use on the plant floor. Internationally renowned editors John Allen Charles Robinson and David Stewart take readers on a comprehensive street-level journey through lean implementation from the seven wastes and flow processes to developing a business case using lean tools and applying readers newfound knowledge at greenfield and brownfield sites. Specific chapters on mapping the value stream policy deployment the five-phase implementation process and problem-solving crystallize concepts with a pragmatic treatment. In addition the brownfield implementation chapter is a must.