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Kanban for the Shopfloor by Productivity Press Development Team
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.73Kanban 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... -
Just-in-Time for Operators by Productivity Press Development Team
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.73Are you ready to implement a just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing program but need some help orienting employees to the power of JIT? Here is a concise and practical guide to introduce equipment... -
Pull Production for the Shopfloor by Productivity Press Development Team
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.73In 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... -
Standard Work for the Shopfloor Productivity Press Development Team 9781563272738
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59Standard 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... -
The Lean Office: Collected Practices and Cases by Productivity Press Development Team
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54The Lean Office: Collected Practices and Cases is a compilation of articles previously published in the Productivity Press newsletter, Lean Manufacturing Advisor. These articles discuss lean... -
OEE for Operators: Overall Equipment Effectiveness by Productivity Press Development Team
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.73Overall 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... -
Lean Culture: Collected Practices and Cases by Productivity Press Development Team
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.38The hard part of implementing a lean transformation, according to most experts, is dealing with the "soft" issues, such as culture change. Getting employees to live and breathe lean -- actively... -
Mistake-Proofing for Operators: The ZQC System Productivity Press Development Team 9781563271274
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59The Zero Quality Control System (ZQC) is a mistake-proofing approach that prevents defects by monitoring processing conditions at the source and correcting errors that cause defects. Since it is... -
Kaizen for the Shop Floor: A Zero-Waste Environment with Process Automation Productivity Press Development Team 9781563272721
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59The 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... -
Kaizen Teian 2: Guiding Continuous Improvement Through Employee Suggestions Productivity Press Development Team 9781563271885
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59More than a guide to establishing a proposal system, this volume presents methods for teaching know-how. It gives each reader the principles for thinking creatively about improving his or her own... -
Kaizen Teian 1: Developing Systems for Continuous Improvement Through Employee Suggestions Productivity Press Development Team 9781563271861
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59Kaizen teian -- the Japanese-style proposal system for continuous improvement -- is the most direct and effective method for channeling employees' creative energies and hands-on insight. This book is... -
Creating Your Lean Future State: How to Move from Seeing to Doing by Tom Luyster
Booksplease Price: £58.46Move beyond Value Stream Mapping and Create Your Lean Future In Creating Your Lean Future State: How to Move from Seeing to Doing, Tom Luyster, with Don Tapping, details the implementation of lean... -
5S for Healthcare by Thomas L. Jackson
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £32.89While there are a growing number of books based on the Toyota Production System, or lean, focused on healthcare, there are very few that detail the tools that make lean more than just a way of... -
The Lean Expert: Educating and Elevating Lean Practitioners Throughout Your Organization by Joseph Niederstadt 9781482253658
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59The Lean Expert: Educating and Elevating Lean Practitioners Throughout Your Organization outlines a method that can help organizations engage associates and empower them to achieve "expert status" in... -
Value and Waste in Lean Construction by Fidelis A. Emuze
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Non-value adding activities are otherwise known as 'waste' in the lean construction lexicon. The aim of this collection is to build a common understanding of the role and contribution of value-adding... -
Cellular Manufacturing: One-Piece Flow for Workteams ProductivityDevelopmentTeam 9781563272134
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59Cellular Manufacturing: One-Piece Flow for Workteams introduces production teams to basic cellular manufacturing and teamwork concepts and orients them for participating in the design of a new... -
Lean Management Principles for Information Technology by Gerhard J. Plenert
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.98Whether it's because of a lack of understanding, poor planning, or a myriad of other things, 50 to 60 percent of the IT effort in most companies can be considered waste. Explaining how to introduce...