Mr. lean buys and transforms a manufacturing company : the true story of profitably growing an organization with lean principles / by Greg Lane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lane, Greg, author.

Contributor:

Shook, John, writer of foreword.

Series:

Productivity Press Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lane, Greg.

Semiconductor production equipment industry--Management.

Semiconductor production equipment industry.

Semiconductor production equipment industry--Cost effectiveness.

Production control--Cost effectiveness.

Production control.

Organizational effectiveness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Productivity Press, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the true story of how, armed with only Lean improvement methodologies, a specially trained Toyota Lean expert purchased a business he knew nothing about, applied Lean techniques, and succeeded in doubling sales and increasing profitability, before he finally sold the thriving business.

Contents:

Front cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Prologue: The Purchase; Chapter 1. The Beginning Observation and Documentation; Chapter 2. Standardizing the Estimating Process; Chapter 3. Learning the Office Processes; Chapter 4. The First Days Alone; Chapter 5. Creating and Selling Capacity; Chapter 6. Getting Everyone Motivated for Improving the Machine's Output; Chapter 7. Seeing the Administrative Processes from a New Angle; Chapter 8. Moving the Business; Chapter 9. Accurate Pricing through Better Cost Allocations; Chapter 10. Up-Front Delays; Chapter 11. Making Money during the Good Times

Chapter 12. Expanding into New ProductsChapter 13. Business for Sale; Chapter 14. Reflections; Appendix A: OSKKK Methodology; Appendix B: Documentation Techniques; Appendix C: My First Attempt at Standardizing the Quoting Process; Appendix D: Example of the First Day-by-hour Board for the Bottleneck Machine; Appendix E: Real-time Pareto Chart; Appendix F: Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) for Bottlenecks; Appendix G: Typical Team Leader Responsibilities; Appendix H: Cross-Training or Skills Matrix; Appendix I: New Layout with Some CNCs Set Up as an ""L"" Cell

Appendix J: Initial ABC Costing Matrix for Shop and OfficeAppendix K: Initial Equipment and Area Layout for Expansion into Sheet Metal; Appendix L: Sequence Utilized for Learning the Business and for Implementing Lean; Appendix M: Different Applications of Value Stream Mapping and Process Mapping; Index; About the Author; Back cover

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-24500-9

1-4398-1517-8

9780429245008

OCLC:

908077969