Selecting the Right Manufacturing Improvement Tools offers an easy-to-read and comprehensive review of the most important current industrial improvement tools that every manufacturing or industrial executive, operational manager or engineer needs to know, including which tool to use for a particular type of manufacturing situation.
But his book goes beyond a simple comparison of improvement tools to show how these tools can be implemented and supported. Instead, it offers a broader strategic explanation of how they relate to one another, and their relative strengths and weaknesses in the larger context of the entire enterprise. It demonstrates how to use these tools in an integrated way such that they are not just be viewed as another “program of the month” or management fad. Selecting the Right Manufacturing Improvement Tools guides the use of these individual management tools within the need for aligning the organization, developing leadership, and managing change, all for creating an environment where these tools will be more successfully applied.
Preface
Chapter 1 : Introduction
Chapter 2 : Aligning the Organization
Chapter 3 : Innovation
Chapter 4 : Leadership and Teamwork
Chapter 5 : Managing Change
Chapter 6 : Business Level FMEA
Chapter 7 : Lean Manufacturing
Chapter 8 : Kaizen
Chapter 9 : Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
Chapter 10 : Six Sigma
Chapter 11 : Supply Chain Management
Chapter 12 : Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)
Chapter 13 : Predictive Maintenance/Condition Monitoring
Chapter 14 : Root Cause Analysis
Chapter 15 : Closing
Appendices
Appendix A : Planning and Scheduling
Appendix B : Performance Measurement
Appendix C : Other Tools and Strategies
Index
