Lean Six Sigma Explained - Increasing Flexibility: Just In Time, Reduced Batch Sizes, Kanbans (Factory Operations Improvement)

Shearman, W.E

ISBN 10: 1686974930 / ISBN 13: 9781686974939

Published by Independently published, 2019

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62 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.16 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lean Six Sigma Explained - Increasing Flexibility: Just In Time, Reduced Batch Sizes, Kanbans (Factory Operations Improvement)
• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1686974930
• ISBN 13: 9781686974939
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.15 kilograms

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Synopsis

Lean Six Sigma Explained - Increasing Flexibility: Just in Time, Reduced Batch Sizes, Kanbans & Changeover Reduction is the fifth volume in the Factory Operations Improvement Series. Having a flexible factory and a short supply chain is important for a number of reasons – among them giving great customer service, reducing costs of manufacture, creating additional capacity and improving cash flow.As importantly – it allows a business to more easily say “yes” when a customer asks “can you…?”This book will guide you on the journey to increasing flexibility by looking at how factors like supplier lead times, minimum batch sizes, minimum order quantities, capacity constraints, complexity and internal departments like Production and Buying can be the cause of rigidity and poor response times.Written in simple language from the perspective of someone who has gone through this process and experienced the pitfalls and the triumphs, it will give you a practical walkthrough in the process of putting in a Just In Time and other support systems like Batch Size Reduction, Kanbans and Changeover Reduction. Written by a practicing Operations Director with over 20 years experience in factories, this is a straight-forward series of concise step-by-step guides aimed at Operations Managers, Production Managers, Shift Managers, Supervisors and Team Leaders interested in building their careers through acquiring new skills.