Flow Manufacturing -- What Went Right, What Went Wrong: 101 Mini-Case Studies That Reveal Lean's Successes and Failures

ISBN-13: 9781138362291 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 552 str.

Richard Schonberger

Opis

This book tells 101 stories of company efforts to implement the many aspects of flow manufacturing -- including such topics as just-in-time production, total quality control, reorganization of factories into product-focused or customer-focused cells, plants-in-a-plant, and many more.

Spis treści

Preface. Part I – 1980s. Part II – 1990s. Part III. – 2000s. Annotated Bibliography

O autorze

Richard J. Schonberger is an independent researcher, author, and speaker—offering management-development and research presentations to industrial, service, and academic organizations worldwide (since 1981, involving over 300 hosting organizations). Originator of world-class manufacturing, Richard is author of some 175 process improvement-focused articles in periodicals ranging from general business (Harvard Business Review, Business Horizons, Wall Street Journal) to academic and functional (Journal of Operations,Quality Management Journal, Interfaces, Industrial Engineer, Cost Management, Quality Progress, Manufacturing Engineering), and the following books and videos. Best Practices in Lean Six Sigma Process Improvement: A Deeper Look . . . with Telling Evidence from the Leanness Studies (Wiley, 2008); Chinese translation forthcoming. Let’s Fix It! Overcoming the Crisis in Manufacturing: How the World’s Leading Manufacturers Were Seduced by Prosperity and Lost Their Way (Free Press, 2001). World Class Manufacturing—The Next Decade: Building Power, Strength, and Value (Free Press, 1996, 7 languages, 6 printings), 1998 Shingo Prize for manufacturing research – Chinese translation, (Simon & Shuster Asia, 1998); Taiwan Chinese translation (1999). SynchroService: The Innovative Way to Build a Dynasty of Customers (Irwin: 1994 with co-author) Building a Chain of Customers: Linking Business Functions to Create the World Class Company (Free Press, 1990, 5 languages, 28,000 copies sold). World Class Manufacturing Casebook: Implementing JIT and TQC (Free Press, 1987, 30,000 copies sold). World Class Manufacturing: The Lessons of Simplicity Applied (Free Press, 1986, 8 languages, 20 printings, 160,000 copies sold). Japanese Manufacturing Techniques: Nine Hidden Lessons in Simplicity (Free Press, 1982, 9 languages, 25 printings, 160,000 copies sold). 7 editions, Operations Management textbook – 7th edition (2007) translated into Chinese (Irwin/McGraw-Hill; 5 editions co-authored). 12-tape video program, "World Class Manufacturing," acclaimed by Quality Digest. Schonberger was a practicing industrial engineer foreight years followed by 14 years as professor in management information systems and operations management at the University of Nebraska, during which he was designated George Cook Distinguished (chaired) Professor; later as affiliate professor, Management Science, University of Washington. Schonberger is on editorial boards of Benchmarking, Cost Management, Target, the Value Chain Management Conference (Austria), and the executive advisory board of the Shingo Prize. He is director of the "Global Leanness Studies" and the "World Class by Principles" international benchmarking.