New Book Shows How To Eliminate Waste From the Shopfloor
The goal of Lean production is to increase profits, value, and customer satisfaction by vastly improving manufacturing methods. To achieve this success, manufacturers must get rid of waste -- all extraneous and counterproductive assumptions, attitudes, activities, materials, machines, operations, and processes.
Identifying Waste on the Shopfloor, by the Productivity Press Development Team, covers the A-to-Z of exactly what "waste" is, why it is a detriment, and how to eliminate it. As an addition to Productivity Press'' popular Shopfloor series, this book complements 5S for Operators and TPM for Every Operator.
Identifying Waste on the Shopfloor offers shop floor personnel -- operators, supervisors, and plant managers -- a simple, cost-effective approach for building basic knowledge about key manufacturing improvement topics. Innovative instructional features include:
- Well organized and easy-to-integrate learning
- Chapter overviews and summaries
- Questions throughout each chapter to help apply the learning to the workplace
- Drawings and illustrations
- Margin icons that flag definitions, main points, and other highlights.
New "Tool" Guides Companies On Road To Six Sigma Success
Achieving the goals of a Six Sigma improvement initiative -- drastically improving the bottom line by designing and monitoring everyday business activities in ways that minimize waste and resources while increasing customer satisfaction -- is not an easy task.
A major roadblock in this quality challenge has been the lack of proper tools. Six Sigma Tool Navigator™ -- The Master Guide for Teams, by Walter J. Michalski with Dana G. King, is a resource not only for teams, but for managers, trainers, industrial engineers, and quality professionals anywhere on their Six Sigma initiative.
This handbook includes detailed, easy-to-follow instructions on how to use 222 Six Sigma tools and techniques. A "Six Sigma Tool-Strings" section helps determine which tool is appropriate for a particular task and how to link tools in sequence. Each tool is classified by process application, description, and various tool applications, possible links to "before and after," tools and problem solving phases most applicable for the tool.
Highlights include:
- Over 70 tool string flowcharts
- More than 100 illustrated tools, including tables, matrices, flowcharts, networks and diagrams
- A Six Sigma tools cross-reference section
- Comprehensive statistical tables
- 222 tools for improvement activities, including benchmarking, cause and effect diagrams, control charts, failure mode effect analysis (FEMA), and process mapping
- A CD-ROM containing a searchable version of the entire text.
Dr. Walter J. Michalski, author, is president of Alpha Research Group, a firm that assists organizations in their Six Sigma quality and change initiatives, and has over 30 years'' work experience in quality assurance, test/process engineering, and process improvement training. He has designed many problem-solving workshops and facilitated teams on quality issues such as lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, process reengineering, integrated product development, continuous measurable improvement and customer satisfaction.