Applied Lean Business Transformation: A Complete Project Management Approach - Hardcover

Dennis Hobbs (author)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1932159797 ISBN 13: 9781932159790

Publisher: J. Ross Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

The advertised benefits and those being touted from numerous Lean factories today are just too great to ignore. Not only can companies save time and money and increase market share, but they can achieve product differentiation from their competitors, which is the single best reason for implementing Lean.

Applied Lean Business Transformation was written for manufacturers who have taken the initiative to implement a Lean operating system but haven’t achieved the expected results, and for those convinced of the benefits of Lean but don’t know how to go about achieving a successful Lean transformation. Often, fear of a new system causes a guarded, conservative, safe, minimum-to-low risk approach to be taken. An approach to business transformation so safe that no traditional systems are challenged will no doubt result in few benefits being achieved.

This valuable guide is presented in three parts. Part One explains the decision-making process for determining whether a Lean business transformation is a good solution for your enterprise. Part Two explains the mechanics of the Lean transformation process. Part Three discusses the need to change goals to support the Lean operating system with new performance measurements to re-enforce Lean throughout the enterprise. This unique book also includes the means for estimating realistic operational benefits, return on investment, and potential increased product or service market share.

- Presents a set of business tools for mathematically determining whether a transformation to a Lean operating system would be a good financial decision for your organization.

- Provides a functional set of tools for designing, maintaining, improving, and operating a Lean system, and objectively deriving and reporting results.

- Describes how to redesign service, transactional, and administrative processes into multi-process cells to complete tasks in the sum of their work content time, and how to start and operate a Lean line on a daily basis.

- Explains how traditional planning methods and goals must be modified to work in concert with a Lean operating system.

- WAV offers downloadable standard work and operation definition templates, a Lean line control board, a line start-up checklist, and other aids ― available from the Web Added Value™ Download Resource Center at www.jrosspub.com

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About the Author

Dennis Hobbs has nearly 40 years of line and staff experience including 20 years in materials and operations management in both the pharmaceutical and electro-mechanical manufacturing industries. He led project teams in the implementation of two different MRP systems and was subsequently responsible for the daily operation of those systems. During the last half of his career, Mr. Hobbs has concentrated on the consulting and education of Lean manufacturing systems. Since 1994, he has trained over 2500 manufacturing professionals at all organizational levels in the methodologies of Lean manufacturing. Mr. Hobbs has spoken at several APICS annual conferences and numerous local chapter meetings. In addition to the US, he has presented his Lean Manufacturing Implementation workshop in New Zealand, Australia, China, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Egypt, Jordan, UAE, Bahrain and Belarus. He has also completed lean manufacturing consulting engagements in the US, Mid-East, Pacific Rim, and Europe. This is his second book on the subject of lean. The first one, Lean Manufacturing Implementation: A Complete Execution Manual for any Size Manufacturer, was published in 2003 and is a best seller.

Edition details

• Publisher: J. Ross Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1932159797
• ISBN 13: 9781932159790
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 520