Grow Your Factory, Grow Your Profits : Lean for Small and Medium-Sized Manufacturing Enterprises

Around 90 percent of manufacturing businesses are classed as SME’s yet almost all the literature about Lean is targeted at big businesses. The few books aimed at SMEs focus on Lean tools and techniques and how these can be adapted to smaller businesses. Tim Mclean’s book takes a different approach. Tim calls on his 25 years of experience managing and improving over 100 SME manufacturing businesses. Tim focuses on the problems he sees over and again in SME manufacturers and presents practical solutions, backed up by case studies showing how these problems can be overcome using Lean principles.

Foreword
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction : About This Book

Chapter 1 : One Size Does Not Fit All
Chapter 2 : What Is Lean Manufacturing, and What Has It Got to Do with Small and Medium Size Manufacturers?
Chapter 3 : Deciding Where to Start Your Lean Journey
Chapter 4 : Make Your Product Flow : Redesign Your Process
Chapter 5 : Getting the Right Layout and Equipment
Chapter 6 : Developing an Organizational Structure and the Leadership to Sustain It
Chapter 7 : Measuring Success: Selecting the Right Metrics
Chapter 8 : What Do I Make Next? The Keys to Production Planning
Chapter 9 : What I Need When I Need It : Managing Materials
Chapter 10 : Developing Your Team
Chapter 11 : Locking in the Gains : The Need for Standardization
Chapter 12 : Resourcing the Change

Glossary of Lean Terms
Index