Reducedeffort(r) Changeover: The Lean Way to Quickly Reduce Changeover Downtime, Second Edition

ISBN-13: 9780367408909 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 192 str.

Ron Heiskell

Opis

ReducedEffort Changeover provides a step-by-step guide for conducting a Kaizen event that empowers the people who do the work to improve how that work is done. Packed with tips, tools, and examples, this practical guide begins with a clear description of the Lean principles underlying the ReducedEffort Changeover system.

Spis treści

Preface. Introduction. Chapter 1 The Problem. Chapter 2 Paradigms. Chapter 3 The Lean Mentality. Chapter 4 The Lean Approach to Zero Defects. Chapter 5 Empowerment. Chapter 6 ReducedEffort Changeover: The REC System. Chapter 7 The REC Event. Chapter 8 Tools. Chapter 9 The REC Presentation. Chapter 10 How to Sustain a ReducedEffort Procedure. Chapter 11 How to Increase Innovation on the Plant Floor. Afterword. Appendix I The Easy Way to Calculate the Cost of Downtime. Appendix II No Tools Needed. Index. About the Author.

O autorze

Ron Heiskell has a BS in mechanical engineering and an MBA in technology management. A knowledgeable advocate and practitioner of Lean principles, Ron first developed and tested the Lean-driven process that evolved into the ReducedEffort system at The Clorox Company, where he was an engineer for 24 years. During his first 22 years at The Clorox Company, Ron worked in the Machine Development Group, designing and building packaging machines and lines. During that time, he began teaching a class on product innovation at two California universities. As part of this class, he taught the role that paradigms play in people resisting new ideas. He also discovered a way to shift a person’s paradigm very quickly. When Ron was asked to teach SMED at The Clorox Company manufacturing plants, he agreed—in part because he saw it as his chance to try some new techniques. He knew that line workers had their own ways of performing changeovers and that many of them had been doing it the same way for a long time, often for 25 or more years. Their paradigms were well established. The challenge was to get them to readily shift paradigms and try something different. Teaching SMED at The Clorox Company gave Ron the opportunity to try this new reduced-effort process in the real world. The results were so amazing that his job shifted from designing packaging lines to reducing changeover downtime in all the plants owned by The Clorox Company as well as those of its suppliers. After leaving The Clorox Company, Ron founded ReducedEffort, LLC., a company devoted to reducing changeover downtime. Since that time, he has been conducting ReducedEffort Kaizen Events at Fortune 500 companies throughout the United States and Canada. Ron has received over fifty U.S. and foreign patents. He is the recipient of the AmeriStar Award from the Institute of Packaging Professionals, the Technology of the Year Award from Packaging Technology & Engineering Magazine, and the Dupont Award for Innovation.