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Speed to Market:Lean Manufacturing for Job Shops,Second Edition

Title: Speed to Market:Lean Manufacturing for Job Shops,Second Edition
Author: Vincent Bozzone
ISBN: 0814406947 / 9780814406946
Format: Hard Cover
Pages: 230
Publisher: AMACOM
Year: 2001
Availability: Out of Stock

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Speed to Market delivers a proven approach for smaller suppliers who want to successfully cut their lead time and trigger profitable growth. Completely updated and expanded, the book explains how to:

* Apply the principles of pull, flow, and the elimination of waste to every area of the company, at every stage from ""quotes to cash""

* Implement a continuous improvement process--while sidestepping the typical implementation pitfalls

* Ease scheduling problems

* Improve performance and profitability using the book's practical concepts, process analysis tools, and perspective-enhancing techniques--and much more."
 

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Foreword
Author`s Introduction

Part I : Speed To Market
Chapter 1 : Leapfrogging Lean
Chapter 2 : Process Thinking
Chapter 3 : Cutting Lead Time in Sales and Estimating
Chapter 4 : Cutting Time in Preproduction Areas
Chapter 5 : The Shop Floor
Chapter 6 : Continuous Improvement
Chapter 7 : Implementation

Part II : Solution Strategies for common Job Shop Problems
Chapter 8 : When Scheduling Is out of Control
Chapter 9 : Hockey Stick Blues
Chapter 10 : The Thorny Issue of Job Shop Overhead
Chapter 11 : The Big Picture Perspective
Chapter 12 : What Business are you Really In?

Part III : Appendexes  : Tools of the Trade
Appendix A : Is This Your Shop?
Appendix B : Detailed View of a Job Shop Business Process
Appendix C : How to Conduct a Business Systems Review
Appendix D : How to Conduct a Process-Step Value Analysis
Appendix E : Dynamic Problem Solving
Appendix F : Drawing the New Organization Lines  : Information Technology as the New Organization Structure

Index
About the Author

 

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