Dennis Mccarthy, Nick Rich

Broschiertes Buch

Lean TPM

A Blueprint for Change

Beschreibung

Lean TPM is an accessible, step-by-step guide designed to help you increase manufacturing efficiency through continuous improvement. Based on their experience of working with organizations that have successfully achieved outstanding performance, McCarthy and Rich provide the tools and techniques required to convert strategic vision into practical reality. Packed with real-life case studies and examples to highlight common pitfalls and proven approaches, the book focuses on the continuous improvement that can be achieved within any manufacturing environment by challenging wasteful working practices, releasing the potential of the workforce, and making processes work as planned. Lean TPM contains an integrated route map along with comprehensive benchmark data to enable engineers, technicians and managers to fully explore this potent technique.

Autor

As a TPM expert, Dennis has pioneered the integration of TPM with Lean and Six Sigma improvement processes as a lever for cross functional collaboration and high performance teamwork. Described by one senior international manager as a true 'Sensei of Change', he has supported many well-respected and award winning companies including 3M, Ford, General Motors, GE, IKEA, Heineken and Johnson Matthey across Europe, India, USA, China and Japan.

Professor Rich is a renowned academic and expert in productivity management and the application of lean enterprise methods. With Professor Dan Jones, he was a founding member of the Lean Enterprise Research Centre in 1994 and he now directs CLEAR - the Centre for Lean Enterprise Application and Research. Nick was trained by Toyota in Japan during the 1990s whilst at Cardiff Business School, he has co-authored several government reports, holds a number of honorary Professorships at UK and international Universities, and is highly regarded as an academic who can translate his research into practice. His research concerns the design and improvement of Highly Reliable Organisations and he spends his time split between manufacturing, service, and healthcare sectors.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Butterworth-Heinemann / Elsevier Science & Technology
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: C2014-0-01495-5
• 2. Aufl.
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 12mm x 152mm x 229mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9780081000908
• Artikelnr.: 42102822

Rezensionen

"Very easy to read." --Tony Flannigan, Site Manager, ICI Synetix"strong in developing lean TPM arguments at the micro level and offers directions at the macro supply-chain level." --Gurdev Singh MILT, Logistics and Transport Focus, 2004"Overall, the text is suited to those with a basic understanding of these two practices within a manufacturing setting who also enjoy a full and sustained management support to drive effective change in an organization." --Quality Progress, February 2005