Beyond Lean Production : Emphasizing Speed and Innovation to Beat the Competition

Stating that US-based industry is only operating at approximately 65 percent effectiveness in implementing Lean production, this book reasons that overseas factories can't compete with domestic factories in speed and delivery to the customer if US-based operations run at 100 percent effectiveness. The first part of the book goes through the fundamentals needed to be competitive in the marketplace. It lists tools that readers can use to compete and hold position until they can implement the methods described in phase II, the advanced portion of the book.

Introduction

Phase 1 : Holding Actions
Introduction
Highlights of Key Items
Holding Action First
Tool 1 : Continuous Flow Manufacturing
Tool 2 : High-Velocity Working Capital
Tool 3 : Process Utilization : Total Team Game Plan
Tool 4 : Pull Systems
Push Your Production Forecast out the Door and Pull in Customer Satisfaction
Tool 5 : Root Cause Analysis
Tool 6 : Single-Minute Exchange of Dies
Tool 7 : Strategic Business Units
An Old Idea Updated Makes Sense : Saves People, Space, and Overhead
Important Points
Conclusion
Tool 8 : Zero-Based Process Mapping
Ten Steps to Process Mapping
Tool 9 : Strategic Kanbans
Tool 10 : Accelerated Return on Kaizen (ARK)
Necessity Is the Mother of Invention
Summary
Tool 11 : Supply Chain Management
Tool 12 : Inventory Turns Control
A Items
B Items
C Items
Tool 13 : Mall Theory
Summary for Phase 1 : Holding Actions

Phase 2 : The Business Command Center
Introduction to the Business Command Center
Bold Breakthrough that Will Make You Rethink Your Leadership
The Business Command Center
What Is a Business Command Center?
Implementing the Business Command Center
Key Points of the Circulatory Management Chart
Special Points
Circulatory Management
Business Command Center : Leadership
How Do You Organize Control of the Command Center?
Summary
What Are the Benefits of Having a Business Command Center?
Future Possibilities
Field Sales Organization
Distribution Centers
Closing Thoughts
Further Information and Homework
Advanced Value Stream Mapping
Accounting : The Dictators of Corporations or Forgotten Priests? What Should Its Role Be?
U.S. Product Engineering : Is It a Misdirected Missile as It Is Now Organized?
Industrial Engineering : The Forgotten Function?

Index