1st Edition
Beyond Lean Production Emphasizing Speed and Innovation to Beat the Competition
It is estimated that U.S. manufacturers are currently operating at only 65 percent effectiveness in implementing Lean production. Covering the fundamentals needed to be competitive in today’s marketplace, Beyond Lean Production: Emphasizing Speed and Innovation to Beat the Competition provides readers with the tools to help their organizations achieve 100 percent effectiveness in Lean production.
Explaining that overseas factories can't compete with U.S. factories in speed of delivery to domestic customers, the book provides the understanding required to add speed and urgency in all that you do in the office and the factory. It explains how to eliminate waste so you can meet and even exceed your customers’ expectations regarding service, quality, and cost.
The book is organized into two phases. The first phase, Holding Actions, covers the fundamentals needed to hold your position against the competition until you can implement the methods described in phase II of the book. It presents 12 little-known tools and strategic weapons that you can immediately put to use to improve on your current competitive position. Phase II, The Business Command Center, presents unique and powerful concepts that can be used with the fundamentals covered in phase I.
Explaining how to use speed as a competitive weapon, the book will help you to remove the obstacles that interfere with continuous flow manufacturing. It presents the concept of circulatory management that can put a stop to the ever-increasing layers of management with decreasing ownership.
By implementing the holding action and the business command center described in this book, you can significantly improve your odds of beating the competition at home and overseas.
Introduction
Phase 1 Holding Actions
Introduction
Highlights of Key Items
Holding Action First
Tool 1: Continuous Flow Manufacturing
Tool 2: High-Velocity Working Capital
Tool 3: Process Utilization: Total Team Game Plan
Tool 4: Pull Systems
Push Your Production Forecast out the Door and Pull in Customer Satisfaction
Tool 5: Root Cause Analysis
Tool 6: Single-Minute Exchange of Dies
Tool 7: Strategic Business Units
An Old Idea Updated Makes Sense: Saves People, Space, and Overhead
Important Points
Conclusion
Tool 8: Zero-Based Process Mapping
Ten Steps to Process Mapping
Tool 9: Strategic Kanbans
Tool 10: Accelerated Return on Kaizen (ARK)
Necessity Is the Mother of Invention
Summary
Tool 11: Supply Chain Management
Tool 12: Inventory Turns Control
A Items
B Items
C Items
Tool 13: Mall Theory
Summary for Phase 1: Holding Actions
Phase 2 The Business Command Center
Introduction to the Business Command Center
Bold Breakthrough that Will Make You Rethink Your Leadership
The Business Command Center
What Is a Business Command Center?
Implementing the Business Command Center
Key Points of the Circulatory Management Chart
Special Points
Circulatory Management
Business Command Center: Leadership
How Do You Organize Control of the Command Center?
Summary
What Are the Benefits of Having a Business Command Center?
Future Possibilities
Field Sales Organization
Distribution Centers
Closing Thoughts
Further Information and Homework
Advanced Value Stream Mapping
Accounting: The Dictators of Corporations or Forgotten Priests? What Should Its Role Be?
U.S. Product Engineering: Is It a Misdirected Missile as It Is Now Organized?
Industrial Engineering: The Forgotten Function?
Index
Biography
Roger G. Lewandowski