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Conner, Gary.

Lean manufacturing for the small shop / Gary Conner.

Dearborn, Mich. : Society of Manufacturing Engineers, ©2001.

xvii, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm + 1 computer optical disc (4 3/4 in.)

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Production management.

Production scheduling.

Lean manufacturing.

Small business -- Management.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-244) and index.

System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: Pentium II with sound card, 10 MB hard-disk space, 8x CD drive, 800 x 600 screen resolution, 256 colors, Windows 9X or later, 16 MB RAM (32 MB or more preferred), Internet Explorer 5.0 or Netscape 4.7, Office 97.

It's About Time -- Trading Time for Dollars -- Make versus Buy -- Evolution of a Company -- The Beginning -- The Lean Enterprise Vehicle -- Wheels, Spokes, and the Radar Chart -- Sales, Production, and Inventory Management -- Total Organizational Buy-in -- Total Quality Management -- Lean Manufacturing Techniques -- Introduction to a Small Manufacturing Company -- Understanding Kaizen -- Performance Evaluation -- Value Stream Mapping -- Product-Quantity-Routing Analysis -- Value-added versus Non-value-added Activities -- Waste -- Value Stream Mapping -- Value Stream Symbols -- Four Steps to Value Stream Mapping -- Product Development -- Process Design -- Preparation -- Planning -- Lead Time and Activity -- Dealing with Different Processes -- Value-added versus Non-value-added Ratios -- Product Demand Patterns -- Process Flexibility -- Optimum Lot Size -- Determine How Much to Make -- Hour-by-Hour Charts -- A New Use for Economic Order Quantity -- Re-educating the Customer -- Single-minute Exchange of Die -- Just-in-Time Techniques -- SMED -- The Fast Setup Toolbox -- Videotaping -- Brainstorming -- Setup Reduction -- Reducing Time -- Testing the Solution -- Calculating Takt Times -- Getting the Process to Flow -- Standard Work -- Line Balancing -- Machine Reliability -- Jidoka and Poka-yoke -- Pull Systems -- Facilities Planning -- Back to the Jobbe Shoppe -- Material Handling Reduction -- Managing Change -- Needs of the People -- Vision -- Skills -- Incentives -- Planning -- Quality System Management: Tools for the Team -- Total Quality Management -- Linearity Charts (Productivity and Waste) -- Ishikawa Diagrams (Cause-and-effect) -- Quality Maps -- Process Flow Diagram -- Deployment Flow Diagram -- Pareto Analysis -- Alternative Selection Worksheet -- Process control -- Pre-control -- C[subscript P]/C[subscript PK] -- Buddy Check -- People Make a Difference -- Undoing Negative Actions -- Helping People Do Great Work -- Choice: A Tool to Create Business People -- The Entrepreneurial Spirit -- What Makes a Businessperson? -- Wage Structures for the New Century -- Incentive Programs -- Training -- Training Considerations -- Promoting from Within the Company -- High-involvement Training -- Training the Trainers -- Trainer Qualifications -- Adult versus Child Learners -- Communication Styles -- Teach Back -- Team Structure for the 21st Century -- Tools for Improving the Team -- Peer-to-peer Evaluations -- Determining a Leader -- The Road to Lean -- Adopting the Lean Approach -- Vision Statement -- Broad Objectives -- First Year Objectives -- Program Organization -- Celebrate the Journey -- Choose Your Battles Carefully -- Successful Tactics -- A Lesson from the Civil War -- Building a Time-phased Model -- Strategic Planning -- The Right Tools for the Job -- Every Cause Needs a Leader -- The Little Brother Effect.

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