While worker safety is often touted as a companys first priority, more often than not, safety activity is driven by compliance to legislation rather than any safety improvement initiative. Lean takes a proactive approach it is not contingent on legislation. A serious Lean effort will tear apart an old inefficient entitlement-riddled culture and

A new book from the Lean Manufacturing Expert Sebastian Brau, presenting techniques, software, procedures and tricks to get the maximum performance from your Lean project by the use of current available technologies in factories. You will learn how to: 1.- Implement the 'Active Inventory' methodology to prevent your factory from having any stockout ever again. 2.- Use 'lean markers' to detect productivity deviations in your operations more easily. 3.- Merge Kaizen and Pareto to complete your 'continuous improvement' cycles faster and cheaper. 4.- Transform the quality controls in your factory into plant sensors to build a 'digital nervous system'. 5.- Use simple plant records to automatically feed your ERP. 6.- Implement a Material Traceability control that does not jeopardize your operation's productivity with unnecessary costs. 7.- Use SMED video guides to reduce the need to train your staff and the global time for the Lean project to be implemented. 8.- Implement a time control for your staff without offending susceptibilities in the factory. 9.- Know how the new North American Law 'FSMA' can affect your operation if you do not anticipate its effects. A different Lean book written by a Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Software Engineer with more than 20 years' experience in implementing Lean Manufacturing and structured with the different technological viewpoint that his specialized profile allows, in the form of "Practical guide on the correct use of Technology in a Lean Project"

The effect Lean Manufacturing programs have on profit and loss statements during the early months of their implementation often causes them to be viewed as failures. The length of time it will take traditional financial reports to reflect lean manufacturing improvements depends upon how poorly the operation was doing in terms of inventory managemen

Readers will learn how to integrate quality and reliability control, machine tool maintenance, production and inventory control, and suppliers into the linked-cell system for one-piece parts movement within cells and small-lot movement between cells.

The Lean Manufacturing Implementation Guide is a "how to" book that describes and documents the proven steps necessary to complete a successful lean transformation in a manufacturing facility. It reduces the manufacturer's fear of change by providing proven, objective and standard how to methods that are understandable and can be easily applied. The book is designed for manufacturing and engineering management personnel.

This book gathers selected peer-reviewed papers presented at the 6th European Lean Educator Conference (ELEC), held in Milan, Italy, on November 11-13, 2019. The conference topics include the following: lean trainings in university and industry collaborations; lean product and process development; lean and people empowerment; emerging contexts for lean applications; measuring lean performance; lean, green and circular; continuous improvement initiatives; lean thinking in practice; organizational culture in lean journeys; and innovative training approaches to teaching lean management. The contributions explore the latest academic and industrial findings on and advances in lean education, and identify innovative methods that allow lean thinking benefits to be achieved in practice. As such, the book presents the outcomes of a fruitful exchange between academia and industry designed to help train the next generation of lean educators.

Winner of a Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award Lean Production Simplified, Second Edition is a plain language guide to the lean production system written for the practitioner by a practitioner. It delivers a comprehensive insider's view of lean manufacturing. The author helps the reader to grasp the system as a whole and the factors that animate it by organizing the book around an image of a house of lean production. Highlights include: A comprehensive view of Toyota1s lean manufacturing system A look at the origins and underlying principles of lean Identifying the goals of lean production Practical problem solving for lean production Activities that support involvement - Kaizen circles, suggestion systems, and problem solving This second edition has been updated with expanded information on the Lean Improvement Process; Production Physics and Little's Law - the fundamental equation for both manufacturing and service industries (cycle time = work in process/throughput); Value Stream Thinking - combining processes required to bring the product or service to the customer; Hoshin Planning -- using the Planning and Execution Tree diagram and Problem Solving -- including the "Five Why" method and how to use it. Lean Production Simplified, Second Edition covers each of the components of lean within the context of the entire lean production system. The author's straightforward common sense approach makes this book an easily accessible on-the-floor resource for every operator.