Implementing Lean : Twice the Output with Half the Input!

Corresponding to chapters in The Lean Practitioner's Field Book, this study guide offers a complete review of the concept of the Lean Practitioner. It offers a wide range of exercises to help readers understand key Lean concepts. Each chapter includes a list of important concepts, chapter highlights, problem sets, and a self-test quiz. Worked-out answers and solutions are also provided for all exercise problem sets and self-test questions.

• Refers to related chapters in The Lean Practitioner's Field Book
• Introduces the concept of the Lean Practitioner
• Provides case studies to help readers apply what they've learned
• Includes multiple-choice review questions for evaluating understanding of the Lean concepts discussed

Preface

Chapter 1 : The Lean Business Delivery System
Chapter 2 : Learning from Toyota : Lean Philosophy and Foundations
Chapter 3 : Lean Accounting and Accounting for Lean
Chapter 4 : Our Misguided Allegiance to the Batching Paradigm
Chapter 5 : Waste versus Efficiency
Chapter 6 : The Lean Assessment
Chapter 7 : Lean and Change Management
Chapter 8 : Transitioning to a Lean Leader
Chapter 9 : Getting Ready to Implement a Lean System
Chapter 10 : BASICS Model : Baseline Data and VSM
Chapter 11 : BASICS : From Assess - Product-Flow Analysis (TIPS)
Chapter 12 : BASICS Model Assessment : Workflow Analysis - Following the Operator (Staff)
Chapter 13 : BASICS Model Assessment - SMED : Single-Minute Exchange of Die (SMED)
Chapter 14 : The BASICS Model : Suggest Solutions
Chapter 15 : Creating Standard Work
Chapter 16 : System-Based Lean Implementation Approach Utilizing the BASICS Model - Kaikaku
Chapter 17 : Hoshin Kanri : Strategic Planning/Policy Deployment
Chapter 18 : Lean Transactional Processes
Chapter 19 : Lean Machine Shops and Job Shops
Chapter 20 : Visual Management
Chapter 21 : Heijunka, Planning and Scheduling, Sequencing Activities, Mixed Model
Chapter 22 : Lean QDIP, and Huddles
Chapter 23 : Lean Materials
Chapter 24 : Lean and Engineering - DFM/A
Chapter 25 : Mistake-Proofing
Chapter 26 : Total Productive Maintenance
Chapter 27 : BASICS Model : Check and Sustain

Index