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Identifying Waste on the Shopfloor book from Improvement Tools.com

Identifying Waste on the Shopfloor book

Like all Shopfloor Series books, Identifying Waste on the Shopfloor presents concepts and tools in simple and accessible language.

The book includes many illustrations and examples to explain basic concepts and some of the challenges that are encountered when looking for and eliminating waste.

Identifying Waste on the Shopfloor is a good compliment to 5S, TPM and other tools for building a lean manufacturing operation.

Productivity Press Development Team's Shopfloor Series books offer a cost-effective approach for building basic knowledge about key manufacturing improvement topics.

Identifying Waste on the Shopfloor and all Shopfloor Series books include instructional features. The goal is to place powerful and proven improvement tools in the hands of the entire workforce.

Key learning features include the following:

• Well-organised and easy-to-assimilate learning
• Chapter overviews and summaries
• Questions throughout each chapter to help the reader apply the learning to their own workplace
• Drawings and illustrations
• Margin icons that flag definitions, main points and other highlights

Table of contents

Chapter 1 - What is waste?

• What is waste?
• Why does waste occur?
• How does waste take root?
• The classification of waste
• The benefits of identifying and eliminating waste

Chapter 2 - The seven deadly wastes

• Overproduction
• Inventory
• Conveyance
• Defects
• Processing Waste
• Operation Waste
• Idle Time

Chapter 3 - How to discover waste

• Using the back door
• Bringing latent waste to the surface
• Analyzing current conditions

Chapter 4 - How to remove waste

• Adopting the necessary attitude
• Removing waste in the movement of goods
• Removing waste in the actions of people
• Removing waste in the way people, goods, and machines are combined

Chapter 5 - How to prevent waste

• Standardization
• Visual and auditory controls
• The 5W and 1H Sheet
• Pointing to the future

Chapter 6 - Reflections and conclusions

• An implementation summary
• Reflecting on what you've learned
• Opportunities for further learning
• Additional Resources related to identifying and eliminating waste

Improvement Tools.com News

Video on lean technique available from Improvement Tools.com (1-Oct-2008)
The video, Incorporating Lean: From the Factory to Front Office, available from Improvement Tools.com, shows how a well known organisation in particle separation equipment, SWECO, applied lean plant wide, from the office to the loading dock.

Improvement Tools.com introduce book on Lean techniques (30-Sep-2008)
The book, Creating the Ultimate Lean Office: A Zero-Waste Environment with Process Automation, available from Improvement Tools.com, applies Lean techniques in the office, which begin with a new definition of waste, backed by a set of techniques designed to eliminate waste and streamline nonvalue-adding activities.

Technical description and performance improvement book from Improvement Tools (29-Sep-2008)
The book, Becoming Lean, available from Improvement Tools.com, provides technical descriptions of successful solutions and performance improvements.

Book on Lean implementation and culture available from Improvement Tools.com (26-Sep-2008)
The book, ‘Creating a Lean Culture’, available from Improvement Tools.com, has won the 2006 SHINGO prize for excellence in Manufacturing Research.

Improvement Tools.com offer Lean workbook for shops and manufacturers (24-Sep-2008)
Improvement Tools.com have introduced a Lean workbook named ‘BackStreet Lean’ for shops and manufacturers. Through the application of Lean in the job shops, a group of plants decided to share their practices in the Running Lean series of workbooks.

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