TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dennis,Pascal
TI  - Lean production simplified: a plain language guide to the world's most powerful production system 
SN  - 9781563273568 (pbk.)
U1  - 658.5 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Productivity Press
KW  - Production management
KW  - Manufacturing processes
KW  - Production control
KW  - Just-in-time systems
KW  - Lean manufacturing
N1  - The birth of lean production. Craft production. The mass production system. The growing dysfunction. The birth of lean production -- The lean production system. Why lean production? Systems and systems thinking. Basic image of lean production. Muda -- Stability. Standards in the lean system. Visual management. The five S system. Total productive maintenance -- Standardized work. Why standardized work? The elements of standardized work. Standardized work and kaizen. The importance of layout -- Just-in-time. why JIT? Flow and pull. Kanban and heijunka. Types of pull systems. Value stream management -- Jidoka. Why jidoka? Using pokayokes. Source inspection. Implementing jidoka -- Involvement. Why involvement? Kaizen circle activity. Practical kaizen training. Suggestion systems. Sustaining involvement -- Hoshin planning. Problems with conventional planning. The hoshin planning system. Creating flow in strategic planning
ER  -