World Class Manufacturing Including Lean, Six Sigma And Kanban

World class manufacturing is the key to achieving shorter lead times, lower inventory and on time in full delivery performance, measured in misses per million! This e-book will start by looking at best practice in traditional manufacturing practices before moving on to look at techniques under headings such as Lean Manufacturing, Just in Time, Total Quality (including Six Sigma) and so on (see contents list below).  The book also contains the well established 20 point World Class Manufacturing checklist which enables you to check how you compare with the best in class and helps identify both opportunities for improvement and progress.


Phil joined Knowles Electronics as Production Manager.  Over the 10 years period whilst he was the project leader in their Business Excellence programme, Knowles had achieved class "A" in MRPII, reduced lead times from 8 weeks to next day kanban deliveries, reduced inventories by one third, achieved a better than 99.5% on-time delivery record and reduced customer returns to less than 300 parts per million using many of the techniques described in this book.


After leaving Knowles Phil worked with MRP Ltd and also set up his own consultancy BPIC.


Contents: Managing traditional work orders and work to lists, kanban, continuous improvement principles, task forces, set-up time reduction, workplace layout and "U" shaped lines, Business Process Reengineering, point of use storage, housekeeping and 4s, statistical process control and 6 sigma, built in quality, cross training, preventative maintenance, team working and Kaizen.