LEAN MANUFACTURING
LEAN MANUFACTURING
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Hi everyone. I am looking at learning the Lean Manufacturing concepts. There are so many books and seminars out there, that I don't know which ones to use.I have been in manufacturing for many years, I hear so much about the lean way that I though it is time to become trained, maybe we can save some money to our customers. I have read few articles on lean concepts and I am convinced that will help us in our plants. So I need your help in rating books, seminars and schools that focussed in training and teaching lean for manufacturing (mainly steel parts fabrication, welding and assmbly is what we do). We are located in Cleveland, Ohio. Schools and seminars close to home will save us some money and time. Thank you in advance for your help.
Regards to everyone
Regards to everyone





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That's about it.
Is it better? I have no idea.
Example I like:
If your machine goes down, and you supply components to a tier one (or higher) supplier, and you risk 1,000's of dollars per hour if you don't have parts to them in time...Where you going to put you money (in excess inventory or excess machine parts)?
Ken
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Ken
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have a nice day,
Bizhan,
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Good luck,
Bizhan,
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I am in favour of technical solutions, which are independent of human inspiration.
One of the problems that they are trying to solve and remady are due to the organization system.
It is organizes as a series of operation, each stage (design, process, sfc) makes is optimization and deliver decisions to the following stage. this decisions are constraints to that following stage. This causes a lot of inefficiencies,
Concurrent Engineering is one way to improve the situation, but it is bases on a lot of meeting and discussions.
A better system is the each stage will make only decisions that are fundamental to his task, and deliver alternatives insted of decisions to the following stage.
It will result with a built in Lean Manufacturing
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Like someone else suggest previously in the thread... the goalqpc memory joggers provide actual analytical tools that help identify and eliminate waste.
Lean Thinking : Banish Waste And Create Wealth In Your Corporation [ABRIDGED] -- by Daniel T. Jones (Author), James P. Womack (Author); Audio CD
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/00...
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Robert A Davis
American Lean
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It appears that in our facility, 95% of downtime due to out of spec or no parts is due to purchased parts.
Also, if your supplier ships you parts at a 35% fallout, what does you purchaser do? Buys more parts to compensate....thus increasing warehouse space needed, as well as sorting and QC checking operations.
VALUE STREAM MAPPING! Good stuff there!
Lean processes work great, when you identify pitfalls and help correct "outside the facility" problems.
Good luck!
Peter
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They provide training and on-site assistance.
KR
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And this is where the crunch usually comes: when everyone has planned and "implemented" lean concepts, the one small thing about quick changeover in parts production can easily put mighty brakes on the momentum. And this is where true employee participation can make a difference.
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1) The employees must be well trained and confident they can achieved the expected results.
2) They should feel that they will benefit from good performance.
3) Finally, employees should feel that the benefit is sufficient to continue with good performance. (Cannot Please Everyone! Don't Try!)
Two examples of these unresolved issues is employees doing just enough to keep with the next guy.Second, group thinking that they can't fire all of us.
The best way of overcoming these behavior issues to ensure success of your Lean initiatives is to get the employees involved. Empower them and let them take ownership of their processes, encourage them to keep improving and last but not least recognize them for a job done well.
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The productivity press books are excellent, as is the Lean Thinking book by Womack.
Learning to See is a good book on value stream mapping.