Description
Book SynopsisThe delivery of real bottom-line results from manufacturing improvements has proven to be much harder than expected for most companies. TQM, Zero-Defect Manufacturing, and Business Process Re-engineering have dropped off the landscape for taking much too long and failing to deliver the promised results. Lean Six Sigma is now experiencing the same fundamental difficulty. Delineating a quantitative approach, Lean Manufacturing: Business Bottom-Line Based shows you how to revitalize Lean Six Sigma by aligning it with your business' bottom line and thus delivering results that your executives, business leaders, and customers expect.
Written by an expert who has transformed product design and manufacturing at companies ranging from Maytag and Visteon to General Electric, the book demonstrates that an awareness of manufacturing business metrics is absolutely essential for every lean manufacturing practitioner. The author has seen first-hand the limitation
Table of Contents
Introduction: Four Stages of Big Picture Lean Manufacturing. Put Business Botton-Line First: Transfer Function for Production Cost. Understanding the Voice of Customers: The Essential Elements. Balance Production and Demand: Value Stream Mapping. From Lognormal to Cobb-Douglas Distribution: Lean Production Analysis. How Demand Fluctuation and Exogenous Shocks Influence Bottom-Line. The Three Golden Rules of Big Picture Lean Manufacturing. Three Golden Rules: Management Production and Inventory Costs. Align Manufacturing Flow with Demand Pull: Design Your Big Picture Lean Manufacturing Systems. Implement Big Picture Lean Manufacturing with Automaton. Back to Business Bottom-Line Maximize Manufacturing Income. Appendix.
