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Kanban for the Shopfloor

Kanban for the Shopfloor

1st Edition

By Productivity Press Development Team
February 15, 2002

Kanban is the name given to the inventory control card used in a pull system. The primary benefit of kanban is to reduce overproduction, the worst of the seven deadly wastes. A true kanban system produces exactly what is ordered, when it is ordered, and in the quantities ordered. It is essentially ...

Focused Equipment Improvement for TPM Teams A Leader's Guide

Focused Equipment Improvement for TPM Teams: A Leader's Guide

1st Edition

By Press Productivity
May 06, 2008

Focused Equipment Improvement for TPM Teams is everything your company needs to gain information about focused equipment improvement. Based on the methodology of Productivity's other learning packages, the material contains:A Leader's guideA copy of Training for TPM: A Manufacturing Success ...

5S for Operators A Leader's

5S for Operators A Leader's

1st Edition

By Press Productivity
November 27, 2007

Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain. Together, these five simple principles form the basis of the 5S System - a powerful front-line tool for simplifying work processes, improving equipment maintenance, ensuring safety and product quality and eliminating waste. 5S is the basis for any ...

Identifying Waste on the Shopfloor

Identifying Waste on the Shopfloor

1st Edition

By Productivity Development Team
June 13, 2003

Like all Shopfloor Series books, Identifying Waste on the Shopfloorpresents concepts and tools in simple and accessible language. The book includes many illustrations and examples to explain basic concepts and some of the challenges that are encountered when looking for and eliminating waste. ...

Kaizen for the Shopfloor Learning Package

Kaizen for the Shopfloor Learning Package

1st Edition

By Jeffrey K. Liker
January 01, 2003

Productivity's new Kaizen Learning Package provides the information and techniques you need to prepare for and conduct a successful Kaizen event.Clear, concise text and explanatory graphics are used to discuss how to: Form and train a kaizen team. Gain support for a kaizen event. Use an Area ...

Standard Work for the Shopfloor

Standard Work for the Shopfloor

1st Edition

By Productivity Press Development Team
July 10, 2002

Standard work is an agreed upon set of work procedures that effectively combines people, materials, and machines to maintain quality, efficiency, safety, and predictability. Work is described precisely in terms of cycle time, work in process, sequence, time, layout, and the inventory needed to ...

Pull Production for the Shopfloor

Pull Production for the Shopfloor

1st Edition

By Productivity Press Development Team
May 20, 2002

In a "pull" production system, the final process pulls needed parts from the previous process, which pulls from the process before it, and so on, as determined by customer demand. This allows you to operate without preset schedules and avoid unnecessary costs, wastes, and delays on the ...

Kaizen for the Shop Floor A Zero-Waste Environment with Process Automation

Kaizen for the Shop Floor: A Zero-Waste Environment with Process Automation

1st Edition

By Productivity Press Development Team
February 01, 2002

The philosophy of kaizen, which simply means continuous improvement, needs to adopted by any organization seeking to implement lean improvements that go beyond cost cutting. Kaizen events are opportunities to make focused changes in the workplace. Kaizen for the Shopfloor takes readers through the ...

Autonomous Maintenance Video Participants Guide

Autonomous Maintenance Video Participants Guide

1st Edition

By Press Productivity
September 01, 2000

This is the Participant Guide to support team leaders in implementing an autonomous maintenance team. This is usually sold with Autonomous Maintenance: Shopfloor TPM Implementation. This is for extra copies....

Kaizen for the ShopFloor Leaders Guide

Kaizen for the ShopFloor Leaders Guide

1st Edition

By Productivity Press Development Team
June 05, 2000

No successful kaizen event occurs by accident. While it's all about stakeholder involvement, that involvement is all the result of facilitated leadership. The most readily acted on conclusions are those that invested parties come up with for themselves. This interactive video will explain just how ...

OEE for Operators Overall Equipment Effectiveness

OEE for Operators: Overall Equipment Effectiveness

1st Edition

By Productivity Press Development Team
August 27, 1999

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is a crucial measure in TPM that reports on how well equipment is running. It factors three elements ---the time the machine is actually running, the quantity of products the machine is turning out, and the quantity of good output – into a single combined...

Cellular Manufacturing Learning Package One-Piece Flow for Work Teams Learning Package

Cellular Manufacturing Learning Package: One-Piece Flow for Work Teams Learning Package

1st Edition

By Kenichi Sekine
March 26, 1999

This learning package introduces production teams to basic cellular manufacturing and teamwork concepts and orients them for participating in the design of a new production cell.You will learn:Waste reducing benefits of organizing the workstations in cells, so that work flows smoothly in the ...

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