Creating Mixed Model Value Streams: Practical Lean Techniques for Building to Demand - Softcover

Duggan, Kevin J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1563272806 ISBN 13: 9781563272806

Publisher: Productivity Press, 2002

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About the Author:

Kevin J. Duggan is a renowned expert with more than 30 years of experience in applying advanced lean techniques to achieve Operational Excellence and the author of three books on the subject: Design for Operational Excellence: A Breakthrough Strategy for Business Growth (McGraw-Hill, 2011), Creating Mixed Model Value Streams: Practical Lean Techniques for Building Demand (Productivity Press, 2002), and The Office That Grows Your Business―Achieving Operational Excellence in Your Business Processes (The Institute for Operational Excellence, 2009). In 1998, he founded Duggan Associates, an international training and advisory firm, to assist companies applying advanced lean techniques into their operations. In 1999, Duggan began working with the Lean Enterprise Institute as a faculty member and also as a Director for the Lean Enterprise Institute Canada while he continued to mentor companies implementing lean. He has developed several advanced workshops such as Creating Mixed Model Value Streams, Creating Flow Through Shared Resources, Creating Flow Through The Supply Chain, Creating Business Process Value Streams, and Lean Product Development that have been adopted by major corporations as part of their production systems. In 2007, he founded the Institute for Operational Excellence, the leading educational center on Operational Excellence, to provide resources including classroom workshops, online training, how-to articles, and books on how to achieve Operational Excellence to a global community of members.

Duggan has assisted many major corporations worldwide over the past 12 years, including United Technologies Corporation, Caterpillar, Pratt & Whitney, Singapore Airlines, IDEX Corporation, GKN, FMC Corporation, and Parker Hannifin.

A recognized authority on Operational Excellence, Duggan has contributed to publications such as Industry Week, Aviation Week, and American Executive, and has appeared on CNN and the Fox Business Network. Duggan is a frequent keynote speaker, master of ceremonies, and panelist at international conferences such as the Australian Operational Excellence National Forum, the European and American Manufacturing Strategies Summit, European Process Excellence in Manufacturing, and Aviation Week’s Management Forum. He also guest lectures graduate students in business at colleges throughout the United States, including the University of Michigan and Ohio State.

Synopsis:

How can you apply value stream mapping and lean concepts to the more complex environment created by mixed model (high variety) manufacturing operations? Creating Mixed Model Value Streams helps you to address the challenges of high-mix, low-volume manufacturing, including: Coordinating products and services as they intertwine between multiple processes; Tracking and managing flow for products that have a multitude of options as well as variations in lead times and cycle times; Discerning between equipment that must be dedicated to a product family, and equipment that can be used as a shared resource; Addressing the challenges of scheduling high-mix production while using shared machines; Adapting to continual changes in material and information flow. The author employs a case study, based on his actual experiences at a toy manufacturer, to show how to determine product families, map the current state, create a future state, schedule the work, and deal with changes in customer demand in this more complex environment.

Creating Mixed-Model Value Streams' comprehensive and down-to-earth approach gives readers the information they need to implement lean in an environment that is less abstract, more complex, and more like what manufacturers face when they actually try to do it on their own shop floor.

About this edition

• Publisher: Productivity Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1563272806
• ISBN 13: 9781563272806
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224