1st Edition

Implementing Lean Twice the Output with Half the Input!

    387 Pages 179 B/W Illustrations
    by Productivity Press

    387 Pages 179 B/W Illustrations
    by Productivity Press

    387 Pages 179 B/W Illustrations
    by Productivity Press

    Everyone has heard the phrase about doing twice the work in half the time, but instead of focusing only on time, this book focuses on driving increased output with consistently less input. Implementing Lean: Twice the Output with Half the Input! teaches readers not only about Lean and its major concepts, but it drives the leader toward implementing a true Lean system.

    The authors have used the methodologies in this book everywhere from hospitals to service industries to manufacturing plants in order to impact businesses by providing proven principles, techniques, and approaches that yield substantial improvement to any business, small or large, in any sector.

    Learn about the benefits of implementing Lean in your company as the authors walk you through the major components as well as show you how to implement them. This guide is already being used by Lean Practitioners every day on shop floors to educate and refresh how tools are used in real-world applications.

    1. The Lean Business Delivery System

    2. Learning from Toyota: Lean Philosophy and Foundations

    3. Lean Accounting and Accounting for Lean

    4. Our Misguided Allegiance to the Batching Paradigm

    5. Waste versus Efficiency

    6. The Lean Assessment

    7. Lean and Change Management

    8. Transitioning to a Lean Leader

    9. Getting Ready to Implement a Lean System

    10. BASICS Model: Baseline Data and VSM

    11. BASICS: From Assess—Product-Flow Analysis (TIPS)

    12. BASICS Model Assessment: Workflow Analysis—Following the Operator (Staff)

    13. BASICS Model Assessment—SMED: Single-Minute Exchange of Die (SMED)

    14. The BASICS Model: Suggest Solutions

    15. Creating Standard Work

    16. System-Based Lean Implementation Approach Utilizing the BASICS Model—Kaikaku

    17. Hoshin Kanri: Strategic Planning/Policy Deployment

    18. Lean Transactional Processes

    19. Lean Machine Shops and Job Shops

    20. Visual Management

    21. Heijunka, Planning and Scheduling, Sequencing Activities, Mixed Model

    22. Lean +QDIP, and Huddles

    23. Lean Materials

    24. Lean and Engineering—DFM/A

    25. Mistake-Proofing

    26. Total Productive Maintenance

    27. BASICS Model: Check and Sustain

    Biography

    Charles W. Protzman, Fred Whiton, Daniel Protzman