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     Manufacturing Business Excellence    

The Lean Toolbox
A Quick & Dirty Guide for
Cost, Quality, Delivery, Design & Management

By John Bicheno  -  ISBN 0 9513829 8 5

Synopsis

Philosophy and Waste
Design
Improvement
Goldratt
Suppliers & Distribution
Measurement
      Planning
Analysis & Mapping
Production
Quality
People
                              

Synopsis
Philosophy and Waste
Lean Thinking, Time based competitiveness,
Muda, Gemba, Agility & virtual manufacturing

Planning
Scenarios, Value Focused Thinking, Hoshin, Target costing

Design
Simultaneous Engineering and Set-Based Concurrent Engineering,
Mass Customisation,
Design for Manufacture(DFM) and Design for Assembly(DFA),
Product Platforms,  4 Fields Mapping,
Quality Function Deployment (QFD), TRIZ, Concept Screening

Analysis and Mapping
System Dynamics, Systems Thinking, and Learning,
The Muda Map, Storyboarding and Brown Paper Exercise,
Value Stream Mapping, Soft Systems Methodology,
Business Process Mapping,
Value Engineering, Value Analysis, and Value Management

Improvement
5 S, Kaikaku, Kaizen, Total Productive Maintenance, Root Cause Analysis,
Time Charting and Analysis, Business Process Engineering (BPR)

Production
Kanban, Changeover Reduction, Mixed Model Production,
Runners-Repeaters-Strangers,
Demand Smoothing (Heijunka), Group Technology, Cells, and One Piece Flow,
Production Flow Analysis, Point of Production Control,
Zero Inventory : Inventory cost/waste

Goldratt
Throughput, inventory, operating expense,
Dependent events, Statistical fluctuation,
Constraints, Bottlenecks, and the synchronous rules, Drum, Buffer, Rope,
Theory of Constraints and thinking process

Quality
The Kano model, Failsafing (Pokayoke),
Short run SPC, Pre-control

Suppliers and Distribution
Supplier Partnership,
Supplier Associations

People
Open book management,
Open space technology,
Ubuntu and Kyosei

Measurement
Activity Based Costing (ABC) and Activity Based Management,
Kaizen Costing and Pseudo Profit Centres,
Performance Measurement and the Balanced Scorecard,
Productivity Accounting

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Manufacturing Business Excellence, A Consultancy run by Robin Goodfellow provides Education, Training, Project Management and Consultancy in MRPII Techniques; and is an independant member of the Manufacturing and Logistics Group.