Working
with Machines: The Nuts and Bolts of Lean Operations with Jidoka
Author: Michel Baudin
Product
Code: 3292
ISBN: 978-1-56327-329-2
Published: 2007
Pages: 368
Binding: Hardcover
Dimensions: 6 X 9 "
Illustrated: No
Weight: 24.00 Ounces
Price: US$55.00
How do companies in high labor cost countries manage to remain competitive?
In western manufacturing, the more manual a process, the more severe
the competitive handicap of high wages. Full automation would make labor
costs irrelevant but remain impractical in most industries. Most successful
manufacturing processes in advanced economies are neither fully manual
nor fully automatic -- they involve interactions between small numbers
of highly skilled people and machines that account for the bulk of the
manufacturing costs and thereby remain competitive.
In
Working with Machines: The Nuts and Bolts of Lean Operations With Jidoka,
author Michel Baudin explains how performance differences that can be
observed between factories are due to the way people use the machines
-- from the human interfaces of individual machines to the linking of
machines into cells, the management of monuments and common services,
autonomation, maintenance, and production control.
This
compelling book:
Emphasizes
the importance of the "Jidoka" pillar of the Toyota Production
System, which is engineering the way people work with machines.
Deals with the art of bringing groups of machines together into "cells."
Addresses the problematic issues associated with "monuments"
- those machines that provide services for production lines across a
broad variety of products, but cannot be organized into cells.
Compares automation as it has been developed in the US, as a stand-alone
discipline with a lean manufacturing approach, to the management of
automated systems implemented before a plant started its lean conversion.
This book provides manufacturing managers and engineers, lean champions
and consultants with strategies and tools to make the technical and
managerial decisions that turn working with machines into a lasting
business success.
Table
of Contents
A guided tour
Part
I: Human-Machine interfaces
Chapter
1: Using machine controls
Chapter 2: Performing operations on machines
Chapter 3: Understanding the process
Chapter 4: Programming machines
Part
II: Machine cells
Chapter
5: Cellular manufacturing with machines
Chapter 6: Design and implementation of a machine cell
Chapter 7: From operator job design to task assignment
Chapter 8: Cell automation and chaku-chaku line
Chapter 9: Grouping cells into focuses factories
Part
III: Common services and monuments
Chapter
10: Working with monuments
Chapter 11: Setup time reduction
Part
IV: Automation
Chapter
12: The lean approach to automation
Chapter 13: Improving legacy automated systems
Part
V: Machine maintenance
Chapter
14: Machine and facilities maintenance
Chapter 15: Improving maintenance
Chapter 16: Maintenance information systems
Chapter 17: Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
Where
should you go from here?
Bibliography
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