Description
Product ID: | 9781498740692 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Title: | Job Shop Lean |
Subtitle: | An Industrial Engineering Approach to Implementing Lean in High-Mix Low-Volume Production Systems |
Authors: | Author: Shahrukh A. Irani |
Page Count: | 742 |
Subjects: | Production and quality control management, Production & quality control management, Production and industrial engineering, Production engineering |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Job Shop Lean integrates techniques from the Toyota Production System (TPS) that apply to high-mix low-volume with the science of Group Technology and Cellular Manufacturing (GT/CM) to replace those parts of the TPS that pertain solely to high-volume, repeatable processes. In the 1950’s, the design and implementation of the Toyota Production System (TPS) within Toyota had begun. In the 1960’s, Group Technology (GT) and Cellular Manufacturing (CM) were used by Serck Audco Valves, a high-mix low-volume (HMLV) manufacturer in the United Kingdom, to guide enterprise-wide transformation. In 1996, the publication of the book Lean Thinking introduced the entire world to Lean. Job Shop Lean integrates Lean with GT and CM by using the five Principles of Lean to guide its implementation: (1) identify value, (2) map the value stream, (3) create flow, (4) establish pull, and (5) seek perfection. Unfortunately, the tools typically used to implement the Principles of Lean are incapable of solving the three Industrial Engineering problems that HMLV manufacturers face when implementing Lean: (1) finding the product families in a product mix with hundreds of different products, (2) designing a flexible factory layout that "fits" hundreds of different product routings, and (3) scheduling a multi-product multi-machine production system subject to finite capacity constraints.
Based on the Author’s 20+ years of learning, teaching, researching, and implementing Job Shop Lean since 1999, this book
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Imprint Name: | Productivity Press |
Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Inc |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2020-05-14 |