Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Productivity's Shopfloor Series books offer a simple, cost-effective approach for building basic knowledge about key manufacturing improvement topics. They break down complex manufacturing principles into manageable pieces of information. In Cellular Manufacturing: One-Piece Flow for Workteams, the Productivity Development Team has created an excellent resource for understanding basic cellular manufacturing concepts. From cell design to leveling, the book is a resource for increasing knowledge of this important lean principle. Cellular Manufacturing involves rearranging traditional operation-based factory layouts into process-based cells that promote a smooth production flow by cutting waste. The book introduces production teams to basic cellular manufacturing and teamwork concepts, and orients them for participating in the design of a new production cell.
Synopsis
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
Synopsis
Productivity's Shopfloor Series books offer a simple, cost-effective approach for building basic knowledge about key manufacturing improvement topics. "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.
"Cellular Manufacturing "features:
- A broad reading level
- Chapter overviews and summaries
- Examples to reinforce new ideas
- Drawings and illustrations
- Suggestions for a reading strategy
- "Take five" and chapter-end reflection questions