Synopses & Reviews
Shingo, whose work at Toyota provided the foundation for JIT, teaches how to implement non-stock production in your JIT manufacturing operations. The culmination of his extensive writings on efficient production management and continuous improvement, this book is an essential companion volume to his other landmark books on key elements of JIT, including SMED and poka-yoke.
It includes:
- Fundamental flaws in European and American production philosophies.
- Basic concepts for improving production systems.
- The scientific thinking mechanism -- a new approach to improvement.
- Implementing a production method in an age of authorized stock production.
- Development of production functions in the age of non-stock production.
- Significance of the different production systems.
Synopsis
Imagine a system of production where information flows from the customer backwards through the manufacturing process so smoothly that it results in the complete elimination of all non-value adding wastes. That means no inventory, no storage, and no transportation. In Shigeo Shingo's classic text on how to implement non-stock production in your manufacturing operations, all the pieces of the production puzzle are pulled together and the myth of the inevitability of waste and inventory is thoroughly destroyed. Shigeo Shingo, whose groundbreaking work at Toyota provided the foundation for JIT, teachers how to implement non-stock production in your JIT manufacturing operations. Don't accept waste as unavoidable! Let Shingo show you how it's possible to produce only what is needed, when it's needed - efficiently and economically.