Lean TPM: A Blueprint for Change / Edition 2

by Dennis McCarthy, Nick Rich Director of Research, Cardiff Business School, Lean Enterprise Research Centre.Senior Research

Overview

Lean TPM is an accessible, step-by-step guide designed to help you increase manufacturing efficiency through continuous improvement. Based on their experience of working with organizations that have successfully achieved outstanding performance, McCarthy and Rich provide the tools and techniques required to convert strategic vision into practical reality. Packed with real-life case studies and examples to highlight common pitfalls and proven approaches, the book focuses on the continuous improvement that can be achieved within any manufacturing environment by challenging wasteful working practices, releasing the potential of the workforce, and making processes work as planned. Lean TPM contains an integrated route map along with comprehensive benchmark data to enable engineers, technicians and managers to fully explore this potent technique.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780081000908
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	03/03/2015
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	252
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

As a TPM expert, Dennis has pioneered the integration of TPM with Lean and Six Sigma improvement processes as a lever for cross functional collaboration and high performance teamwork. Described by one senior international manager as a true 'Sensei of Change', he has supported many well-respected and award winning companies including 3M, Ford, General Motors, GE, IKEA, Heineken and Johnson Matthey across Europe, India, USA, China and Japan.

Professor Rich is a renowned academic and expert in productivity management and the application of lean enterprise methods. With Professor Dan Jones, he was a founding member of the Lean Enterprise Research Centre in 1994 and he now directs CLEAR – the Centre for Lean Enterprise Application and Research. Nick was trained by Toyota in Japan during the 1990s whilst at Cardiff Business School, he has co-authored several government reports, holds a number of honorary Professorships at UK and international Universities, and is highly regarded as an academic who can translate his research into practice. His research concerns the design and improvement of Highly Reliable Organisations and he spends his time split between manufacturing, service, and healthcare sectors.

Table of Contents

1. The Business of Survival and Growth
2. The Lean TPM Master Plan
3. Policy Deployment: Aligning People, Processes and Products Profitably
4. The Change Mandate: A Top Down/Bottom-Up Partnership
5. Transforming the Business Model
6. Process Stabilization
7. Process Optimisation
8. Moving Beyond the Factory
9. Sustaining the Improvement Drive
Index

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A guide to the main approaches to world-class manufacturing, lean and TPM, illustrated by real-life case studies, advice and data to help you increase manufacturing efficiency through continuous improvement

Editorial Reviews

"Very easy to read." —Tony Flannigan, Site Manager, ICI Synetix"strong in developing lean TPM arguments at the micro level and offers directions at the macro supply-chain level." —Gurdev Singh MILT, Logistics and Transport Focus, 2004"Overall, the text is suited to those with a basic understanding of these two practices within a manufacturing setting who also enjoy a full and sustained management support to drive effective change in an organization." —Quality Progress, February 2005

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