1st Edition
One-Piece Flow Cell Design for Transforming the Production Process
By Kenichi Sekine
Copyright 2005
308 Pages
by
Productivity Press
308 Pages
by
Productivity Press
308 Pages
by
Productivity Press
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By reconfiguring your traditional assembly lines into production cells based on one-piece flow, you can drastically reduce your lead time, staffing requirements, and number of defects. Kenichi Sekine studied under the late Shigeo Shingo and is responsible for many recent advances in the deployment of the Toyota Production System in Japan. In this comprehensive book, Sekine provides an in-depth... Read more
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Preface
Part I: Basics
1. The Basic Concepts of One-Piece Production
2. Cutting Assembly Personnel by Half: Case Studies
3. Establishing a Wide-variety Small-lot Production System
4. Illustrating Process Razing
5. Process Razing Techniques
6. Trial Elimination of Conveyors
7. U-shaped Cells for Assembly Lines
8. Establishing U-shaped Cells in a Garment Factory
9. U-shaped Cells for Electronic Component Assembly
10. Techniques for Removing Waste from Factories
Publisher's Message
Preface
Part I: Basics
1. The Basic Concepts of One-Piece Production
2. Cutting Assembly Personnel by Half: Case Studies
3. Establishing a Wide-variety Small-lot Production System
4. Illustrating Process Razing
5. Process Razing Techniques
6. Trial Elimination of Conveyors
7. U-shaped Cells for Assembly Lines
8. Establishing U-shaped Cells in a Garment Factory
9. U-shaped Cells for Electronic Component Assembly
10. Techniques for Removing Waste from Factories
Part II: Application
11. Color Changeover Improvement at Japan's Oldest Plastics Company: The Case of Starlight Industries
12. Establishing One-Piece Flow at a Factory that Produces Small Lots on a Customer-order Basis: The Case of Oriental Motor
13. "Single" Delivery at MTNAC: From Order to Delivery in Nine Days
14. Reducing Waste on Printed Circuit Board Component Assembly Lines: The Case of Kumamoto Electronics
Biography
Kenichi Sekine
