By Productivity Press Development Team
February 15, 2002
Kanban is the name given to the inventory control card used in a pull system. The primary benefit of kanban is to reduce overproduction, the worst of the seven deadly wastes. A true kanban system produces exactly what is ordered, when it is ordered, and in the quantities ordered. It is essentially ...
By Press Productivity
May 06, 2008
Focused Equipment Improvement for TPM Teams is everything your company needs to gain information about focused equipment improvement. Based on the methodology of Productivity's other learning packages, the material contains:A Leader's guideA copy of Training for TPM: A Manufacturing Success ...
By Press Productivity
November 27, 2007
Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain. Together, these five simple principles form the basis of the 5S System - a powerful front-line tool for simplifying work processes, improving equipment maintenance, ensuring safety and product quality and eliminating waste. 5S is the basis for any ...
By Productivity Development Team
June 13, 2003
Like all Shopfloor Series books, Identifying Waste on the Shopfloorpresents concepts and tools in simple and accessible language. The book includes many illustrations and examples to explain basic concepts and some of the challenges that are encountered when looking for and eliminating waste. ...
By Productivity Press Development Team
July 10, 2002
Standard work is an agreed upon set of work procedures that effectively combines people, materials, and machines to maintain quality, efficiency, safety, and predictability. Work is described precisely in terms of cycle time, work in process, sequence, time, layout, and the inventory needed to ...
By Productivity Press Development Team
May 20, 2002
In a "pull" production system, the final process pulls needed parts from the previous process, which pulls from the process before it, and so on, as determined by customer demand. This allows you to operate without preset schedules and avoid unnecessary costs, wastes, and delays on the ...
By Productivity Press Development Team
February 01, 2002
The philosophy of kaizen, which simply means continuous improvement, needs to adopted by any organization seeking to implement lean improvements that go beyond cost cutting. Kaizen events are opportunities to make focused changes in the workplace. Kaizen for the Shopfloor takes readers through the ...
By Press Productivity
September 01, 2000
This is the Participant Guide to support team leaders in implementing an autonomous maintenance team. This is usually sold with Autonomous Maintenance: Shopfloor TPM Implementation. This is for extra copies....
By Productivity Press Development Team
August 27, 1999
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is a crucial measure in TPM that reports on how well equipment is running. It factors three elements ---the time the machine is actually running, the quantity of products the machine is turning out, and the quantity of good output – into a single combined...
By Kenichi Sekine
March 26, 1999
This learning package introduces production teams to basic cellular manufacturing and teamwork concepts and orients them for participating in the design of a new production cell.You will learn:Waste reducing benefits of organizing the workstations in cells, so that work flows smoothly in the ...
By Productivity Development Team
March 05, 1999
Cellular Manufacturing: One-Piece Flow for Workteams introduces production teams to basic cellular manufacturing and teamwork concepts and orients them for participating in the design of a new production cell. Use this book to get everyone on board to reduce lead time, work-in-process inventory, ...
By Productivity Press Development Team
February 27, 1998
Are you ready to implement a just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing program but need some help orienting employees to the power of JIT? Here is a concise and practical guide to introduce equipment operators, assembly workers, and other frontline employees to the basic concepts, techniques, and benefits ...