Kaizen Assembly: Designing, Constructing, and Managing a Lean Assembly Line - Hardcover

Ortiz, Chris A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0849371872 ISBN 13: 9780849371875

Verlag: CRC Press, 2006

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It is easy to learn the philosophy and the concepts of kaizen. It is quite another challenge to translate the philosophy into action. While most books expound on the underlying principles and theory, Kaizen Assembly: Designing, Constructing, and Managing a Lean Assembly Line takes you step-by-step through an actual kaizen event. This approach demonstrates in detail the mindset, the processes, and the practical insight needed to transform your current assembly line into a world-class lean operation.

Chris Ortiz brings the experience of over 150 successful kaizen events to the pages of this unique guide. Using clear, succinct, and unambiguous language rather than more general and esoteric terms found in other books, he explains how to implement waste reduction, 5S, time and motion studies, line balancing, quality-at-the-source, visual management, and workstation and assembly line design. Taking a unique approach, the book follows an example of the assembly process for an electric bike including illustrations of nearly every step along the way. Ortiz even includes the most valuable teaching tool of all: past mistakes, how they were overcome, and how to identify and avoid them.

Providing expert guidance that will last long after the consultants have left, Kaizen Assembly supplies the tools you need to make kaizen and lean assembly a permanent fixture at the heart of the shop floor.

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Emphasizing manual assembly, Kaizen Assembly shows readers how to design, construct, and manage a world-class assembly process. The book covers time and motion studies, waste reduction, standard work, 5S, line balancing, quality at the source, and workstation and assembly line design. Using an electric bike as the product, the author designs and constructs an actual assembly line within the text, allowing readers to better understand the process. The book presents testing, inspecting, and packaging workstations, along with a ten workstation main assembly line, one subassembly feeder line, and a subassembly work cell. It contains figures and illustrations, including workstation-specific pictures of the bike as it is built.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0849371872
• ISBN 13: 9780849371875
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 239
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland