The BASICS Lean Implementation Model : Lean Tools to Drive Daily Innovation and Increased Profitability

The Lean Practitioner Tools outlines a true learning path for anyone seeking to understand essential Lean principles and tools. It includes a plethora of examples and stories drawn from the authors experiences and lessons learned through implementation.

The author breaks down Lean concepts to their simplest terms to make everything as clear as possible for Lean practitioners. The book takes readers on a journey that begins with an overview of Lean principles and culminates with readers developing professionally through the practice of self-reliance. It outlines an integrated, structured approach identified by the acronym BASICS (baseline, analyze, suggest solutions, implement, check and sustain), which is combined with a proven business strategy to help ensure a successful and sustainable transformation of any organization. The book also discusses Lean tools such as standard work, visual management, kanbans, mistake proofing, planning and scheduling, sequencing activities and load balancing.

• Provides an understanding of how lean techniques work from inception of a project to application
• Details the five lean practitioner levels
• Describes how to implement lean tools with an emphasis on line balancing and exploring the difference between station balancing and baton zone
• Includes case studies and stories based on the author’s true life experiences, and lessons learned through implementation.

Preface

Part 1 : Lean Overview, Lean Philosophy, History, and Principles
Chapter 1 : Lean Philosophy and Foundations
Chapter 2 : Brief History of Lean
Chapter 3 : Our Misguided Allegiance to the Batching Paradigm
Chapter 4 : Waste versus Efficiency

Part 2 : Phase 1 : Lean Tools and Implementation
Chapter 5 : Leveraging the Lean Business Delivery System for Continuous Improvement
Chapter 6 : The House of Continuous Improvement
Chapter 7 : Getting Ready to Implement Lean System
Chapter 8 : BASICS Model : Baseline the Process
Chapter 9 : BASICS : From Assets – Product Flow Analysis (TIPS)
Chapter 10 : BASICS Model Assessment : Work Flow Analysis
Chapter 11 : BASICS Model Assessment : SMED : Setup Reduction/Changeover Analysis
Chapter 12 : The BASICS Model : Suggest Solutions
Chapter 13 : Creating Standard Work
Chapter 14 : BASICS Model Implementation : Methodologies
Chapter 15 : Visual Management
Chapter 16 : Lean Material Basics
Chapter 17 : Lean Material Basics
Chapter 18 : Lean Materials : Strategic
Chapter 19 : Mistake Proofing
Chapter 20 : Total Productive Maintenance
Chapter 21 : BASICS Model : Check and Sustain

Part 3 : Lean Implementation
Chapter 22 : Heijunka, Planning and Scheduling, Sequencing Activities, Load Balancing
Chapter 23 : Lean Transactional Processes
Chapter 24 : Lean QDIP, and Huddles
Chapter 25 : Lean and Effective Meeting Techniques
Chapter 26 : Lean and Machine Shops and Job Shops

Index