Bücher der Reihe The Shopfloor Series

Prepare your entire workforce to truly benefit from your next kaizen event! Now you can give your frontline employees the information they need to understand, plan, and implement kaizen.

This book provides operators, supervisors, team leaders, and TPM co-ordinators with useful guidance for autonomous maintenance.

This resource introduces production teams and managers to basic pull production concepts, enabling them to begin understanding, planning, and implementing this lean tool.

Kanban is the name given to the inventory control card used in a pull system. The primary benefit of kanban is to reduce overproduction, the worst of the "seven deadly wastes." A true kanban system produces exactly what is ordered, when it is ordered, and in the quantities ordered. Kanban for the Shopfloor provides a working manual for those seeking to implement this method of production control in any operation. It defines the various terms and methods employed in kanbans, and illustrates how when adhered to, kanban is an element of continuous improvement that ultimately leads to the ideal of one-piece flow."

Like all "Shopfloor Series" books, Identifying Waste on the Shopfloorpresents concepts and tools in simple and accessible language. The book includes many illustrations and examples to explain basic concepts and some of the challenges that are encountered when looking for and eliminating waste. Identifying Waste on the Shopfloor is the ideal compliment to 5S, TPM, and other tools for building a lean manufacturing operation. Productivity's "Shopfloor Series" books offer a simple, cost-effective approach for building basic knowledge about key manufacturing improvement topics. Identifying Waste on the Shopfloor and all our "Shopfloor Series" books include innovative instructional features that are the signature of the series. The goal: to place powerful and proven improvement tools in the hands of your entire workforce.

This book focuses on explaining the TPM activities carried out by equipment operators themselves; autonomous maintenance, focused improvement, and safety initiatives.

5S is the starting point of any on-the-floor improvement activity and the key to successful change. Teach your workers the basics of 5S: organisation, orderliness, cleanliness, standard cleanup and discipline. Many illustrations, page headers, chapter summaries and application questions.

This book, based on Shingo's SMED System, helps you begin the education process that will support training on quick changeover. The learning format in the Shopfloor Series begins to make this technique accessible to your entire workforce.

A brief but complete introduction to TPM offering an easy-to-follow overview of the basic TPM features and implementation.

ZQC is based on the principle that defects are prevented by controlling the performance of a process so that it can not produce defects, even when a mistake is made by the operator. This book introduces front line workers to the basic methodology of ZQC.

Cellular Manufacturing: "One-Piece Flow for Workteams "introduces production teams to basic cellular manufacturing and teamwork concepts and orients them for participating in the design of a new production cell. Use this book to get everyone on board to reduce lead time, work-in-process inventory, and other profit-draining wastes. Each chapter includes an overview and a summary to reinforce concepts, as well as reflection questions, which can be used to encourage group discussions. This volume is part of Productivity Press' "Shopfloor Series," which offers a simple, cost-effective approach for building basic knowledge about key manufacturing improvement topics

Standard work is a set of work procedures that effectively combine people, materials, and machines to maintain quality, efficiency, and safety. This text discusses the characteristics of standards, key benefits and applications of standardization, documentation, and other topics.

Workshop leaders play a central role in your company's efforts to implement TPM. Once your workers have been divided into small groups to learn the fundamentals of TPM, it is the group leader who spearheads ongoing training and implementation activities. This book addresses the role of the workshop leader in maximizing the benefits of TPM.

Just-in Time for Operators presents concepts and tools. The book includes illustrations and examples to explain basic JIT concepts and some of the changes people may encounter in a JIT implementation.

Discusses team problem solving and steps for preparing good presentations of results. For front-line supervisors, operators, facilitators and trainers.

Focused equipment improvement (FEI) is one of the pillars of TPM. This book gives shopfloor TPM teams, including production workers, maintenance technicians, engineers, and managers, a framework for further improving equipment performance.