Introduction
There Is No Panacea!
Training Day
Sharing Black Books
Tachinbo
Prioritizing and Executing Actions
Updating Standardized Work Forms and Expanding
Focused Tachinbo: Workstation Assessment
Shop Floor Application and Takeaway
Biography
Alain Patchong is the assembly director at Faurecia Automotive Seating, France. He also holds the title of master expert in assembly processes. He was previously the industrial engineering manager for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa at Goodyear in Luxembourg. In this position, he developed training materials and led a successful initiative for the deployment of Standardized Work in several Goodyear plants.
Before joining Goodyear, he worked with PSA Peugeot Citroën for 12 years, where he developed and implemented methods for manufacturing systems engineering and production line improvement. He also led Lean implementations within PSA weld factories. He teaches at École Centrale Paris and École Supérieure d’Electricité, two French engineering schools. He was a finalist of the INFORMS’ (Institute for Operations Research and Management Science) Edelman Competition in 2002 and a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2004. He is the author of several articles published in renowned journals. His work has been used in engineering and business school courses around the world.
