We know how important it is for you to have the right tool when you need it. If you're a team leader or facilitator in a manufacturing environment, you've probably been searching a long time for a collection of implementation tools tailored specifically to your needs. Well, look no further.
Based on the same principles used to develop Tool Navigator's Master Guide for Teams, here is a group of 40 dynamic tools to help you and your teams implement powerful manufacturing process improvement. This essential resource allows you and your teams to start and complete almost any manufacturing task. The book includes plenty of graphics, charts, illustrations and indexes to help you navigate your way through a problem solving process. In addition, the author gives you relevant background information and an overview of a tool's usage to assist your teams in the proper selection, sequencing, and application of major tools such as JIT, TPM, Process Mapping and Cycle Time Management.
To help you and your teams select just the right tool for your problem solving or manufacturing process improvement activities, we've sorted and arranged them into four stages. The real power of this book is that if you use the tools, working your way through the stages, the end result is Customer Satisfaction! The four stages are: process; cycle time; variability; and problem solving.
Unlike other tool guides, the Tool Navigator guides are more than just a book of dry definitions. It is a true navigator. Each guide features :
• Classification of each tool by process application
• Description of various applications of the tool
• Problem solving phases most applicable for the tool
• Ranking of category or work discipline in which the tool is most used
• Step-by-step procedures on how to use tool
• Examples of the tool's output or result
• Useful appendixes and statistical charts
• Cross reference index to find tools in The Master Guide for Teams
• Boxes that link to other tools in The Master Guide for Teams
Publisher’s Message
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Stage One : Navigator Tools for the Manufacturing Process
Chapter 1 : (PP) Activity Network Diagram
Chapter 2 : (IG) Checklist
Chapter 3 : (CI) Facility Layout Diagram
Chapter 4 : (PP) Gozinto Chart
Chapter 5 : (AT) Process Analysis
Chapter 6 : (AT) Process Flowchart
Chapter 7 : (CI) Process Mapping
Chapter 8 : (CI) Process Selection Matrix
Chapter 9 : (PP) Top-Down Flow Chart
Chapter 10 : (PP) Work-Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Chapter 11 : (CI) Work Flow Analysis (WFA)
Stage Two : Navigator Tools for Cycle Time
Chapter 12 : (AT) Activity Analysis
Chapter 13 : (AT) Cycle Time Flowchart
Chapter 14 : (CI) Monthly Assessment Schedule
Chapter 15 : (CI) Time Study Sheet
Stage Three : Navigator Tools for Variability
Chapter 16 : (AT) Analysis of Variance
Chapter 17 : (AT) Control Chart-c (Variable)
Chapter 18 : (AT) Control Chart-p (Attribute)
Chapter 19 : (AT) Control Chart-X-R (Variable)
Chapter 20 : (AT) Cost of Quality
Chapter 21 : (CI) Events Log
Chapter 22 : (AT) Frequency Distribution (FD)
Chapter 23 : (AT) Line Chart
Chapter 24 : (AT)Multivariable Chart
Chapter 25 : (AT) Process Capability Ratios
Chapter 26 : (AT) Stratum Chart
Chapter 27 : (AT) Variance Analysis
Stage Four : Navigator Tools for Problem Solving
Chapter 28 : (AT) Cause and Effect Diagram Adding Card (CEDAC)
Chapter 29 : (DC) Checksheet
Chapter 30 : (DC) Defect Map
Chapter 31 : (ES) Dendrogram
Chapter 32 : (CI) Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA)
Chapter 33 : (AT) Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
Chapter 34 : (PP) Matrix Diagram
Chapter 35 : (AT) Pareto Chart
Chapter 36 : (CI) Potential Problem Analysis (PPA)
Chapter 37 : (PP) Problem Specification
Chapter 38 : (AT) SCAMPER
Chapter 39 : (ES) Solution Matrix
Chapter 40 : (AT) Window Analysis
Appendix A
Appendix B
Abbreviated Bibliography
About the Author