Description
Book SynopsisMany production managers have de-stocked excessively large inventories, gone lean, experimented with continuous improvement processes and introduced new working practices. These interventions have largely failed. Businesses have also failed to invest in the workforce that undertakes improvements. This means that cash flow stops quickly, stocks are depleted to zero and customers lose confidence.
Systems for Manufacturing Excellence looks at how people and technology work effectively together to generate high performance manufacturing and service operations. Not everyone is a Toyota but that does not mean we cannot learn from such businesses. The book will present a logic, variety of approaches and methods that underpin the different models of high performance used by 'world class' businesses. The authors use examples from their training with Toyota, work with Tesco, and many world class manufacturing businesses that form their research agenda. The book will help teams run each part of their production process for effectiveness and efficiency, with a high level of discipline that supports excellence in performance.
Table of Contents
- Chapter - 01: Operational excellence;
- Chapter - 02: The real issues and DNA of winning organizations;
- Chapter - 03: Socio-technical systems and their design;
- Chapter - 04: High performing organizations (six sigma and lean);
- Chapter - 05: TPM and maintaining (reliability focused and OEE-based flow improvement);
- Chapter - 06: Highly reliable organizations (organizational level pre-occupations);
- Chapter - 07: Operations management by design of new processes;
- Chapter - 08: The safety case;
- Chapter - 09: Improving processes and the sustainability of improvement;
- Chapter - 10: The new agenda for change;
- Chapter - 11: Conclusions
