Organizations streamline operations, shorten lead times, increase quality, and lower costs. Cellular manufacturing is a powerful concept that is simple to understand; however, its ultimate success depends on deciding where cells fit into your organization, and then applying the know-how to design, implement and operate them.
Reorganizing the Factory presents a thoroughly researched and comprehensive "life cycle" approach to competing through cellular work organizations. It takes you from the basic cell concept and its benefits through the process of justifying, designing, implementing, operating, and improving this new type of work organization in offices and on the factory floor.
The book discusses many important technical dimensions, such as factory analysis, cell design, planning and control systems, and principles for lead time and inventory reduction. However, unique to the literature, it also covers in depth the numerous managerial issues that accompany organizing work into cells. In most implementations, performance measurement, compensation, education and training, employee involvement, and change management are critically important. These issues are often overlooked in the planning process, yet they can occupy more of the implementation time than do the technical aspects of cells.
Chapter 1 : Competing through Cellular Manufacturing
Chapter 2 : A Close Look at Cells: What They Are and the Forms They Take
Chapter 3 : Why Cells Improve Performance
Chapter 4 : The Planning and Implementation of Cellular Manufacturing Systems
Chapter 5 : Factory Planning
Chapter 6 : Detailed Planning -- One Cell at a Time
Chapter 7 : Understanding Cell Performance Using Modeling
Chapter 8 : Determining the Economic Value of Cells
Chapter 9 : Performance Measurement for Cells
Chapter 10 : Cost Accounting and Cellular Manufacturing
Chapter 11 : Manufacturing Planning and Control Systems for Cells
Chapter 12 : Job Design and Daily Work in Manufacturing Cells
Chapter 13 : Selecting and Training Cell Employees
Chapter 14 : Compensation Systems for Cell Employees
Chapter 15 : Planning for Cell Implementation and Managing the Change
Chapter 16 : Common Problems in the Design, Justification, Implementation and Operation of Cells
Chapter 17 : Improvement and Evolution of Cells
Chapter 18 : Reorganizing Office Work Using Cellular Principles
Chapter 19 : Future Changes and Challenges
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