| | |  | Kanban/Materials | Home » » » » Manufacturing Operations and Supply Chain Management: The LEAN Approach | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | This text provides insights into the theory and practicalities of applying LEAN principles to, and of measuring and improving the performance of, manufacturing operations and supply chain systems. It contains a collection of articles and cases and each chapter is written so that it can be easily understood as a 'stand alone' text. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| David L. Taylor | | Paperback:
| 400 pages | | Publisher:
| Cengage Learning EMEA | | Publication Date:
| December 14, 2000 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 1861526040 | | Product Length:
| 9.71 inches | | Product Width:
| 7.45 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.9 inches | | Product Weight:
| 1.66 pounds | | Package Length:
| 9.9 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.2 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.1 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.55 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 1 reviews |
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A great lean bookApr 21, 2001
This book is authoritatively written by two researchers working for Dan Jones at the Lean Enterprise Research Centre in Cardiff University. Dan is co-author of the Machine that Changed the World & Lean Thinking - the books that started the whole lean thing off - and wrote a couple of the chapters. It provides an excellent set of case studies and chapters written by a number of leading academics and practitioners in the lean arena. The book is a great reference aid for a lean practitioner. It is made up of 7 sections - including background to where lean came from and the principles, a section on analysing supply chain performance and identifying waste, examples of improvement activities conducted by the authors and the Cardiff research team, and a section (Towards the Future) looking at new areas of lean research and new lean tools that practitioners will provide thought provoking and really useful. It does a number of things really well: 1. It is a good reference book as it contains manageable chapters that can be read in isolation from one another. There are good summaries of things like the Lean Principles, 7 wastes etc. and a good section on further sources of information on lean. 2. For the practitioner there are some useful tools and techniques that can be taken away and used right away - for example the value stream mapping and demand amplification tool sections are really interesting. 3. It takes lean manufacturing and shows how it is applicable in a number of environments - very thought provoking and quite leading edge. I would say it is a very worthwhile read for anyone interested in lean - student or practitioner.
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