Time Out
Language: English
Published by John Wiley & Sons Jan 1998, 1998
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Neuware - Visible pull is a revolutionary new method of time management and process improvement that enables manufacturing stations to make better use of their active time. With visible pull, stations act in concert with one another and enable the company to allocate resources properly, build a culture of teamwork, and link time-on-line to business goals. Based on the most current manufacturing techniques, these systems have already contributed to exceptional performance at some of the country s leading companies.
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- Title
- Time Out
- Author
- Smith
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Jan 1998
- Publication year
- 1998
- Condition
- Neu
- Binding
- Buch
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0471192147
- ISBN 13
- 9780471192145
- Item weight
- 617 grams
- Dimensions
- 235x157x21 mm
In a series of five logical, carefully structured segments, Smith takes you step-by-step through the entire Visible Pull process, including:
- Making the Decision―helps you decide if Visible Pull is appropriate for your organization through a high-level overview of its goals, resource requirements, and potential benefits
- Assessing and Planning―explains how to identify and assess opportunities for improvement, choose the right tools, and develop a specific plan for change
- Pull Systems―demonstrates how to use Pull Systems as the primary tool for managing time in a process and how to apply them to your specific environment
- Visible Management and Continuous Improvement―describes how to use Pull Systems to institute an ongoing improvement process, build employee involvement, measure your organization's evolving capabilities, and guide your future growth.
Replete with examples drawn from the experience of world-class manufacturers, Time Out in-cludes a full range of simulation techniques, as well as detailed, real-world application methods set within the context of an integrated enterprise.
Designed for manufacturing, operations, and distribution managers, supervisors, team leaders, design engineers, and others concerned with manufacturing processes, Time Out offers an immediate and unprecedented opportunity for truly breakthrough improvement.
Time Out offers a detailed roadmap for dramatically improving manufacturing cycle time in your company by using Visible Pull Systems to integrate and focus the complex array of competing management techniques. The book details how world-class businesses like DuPont, Union Carbide, and others have benefited from implementing cycle time techniques and how you can draw from the toolbox to meet your company's unique needs. With Visible Pull, companies learn how to maximize the use of their manufacturing workstations, allocate resources better, and link time-on-line to business goals. With a full range of real-world examples, simulation techniques, and application methods, Time Out offers manufacturing managers, supervisors, engineers, and others a dynamic new way of raising overall manufacturing performance.
"Wayne Smith has an obvious depth of technical and conceptual knowledge together with a breadth of manufacturing experience rarely found these days. Our members know the genuine article when they see it and Wayne Smith is asked back after every presentation."―William H. King, President, AME Northeast Region.
"The principles set forward in this book apply to every plant. Wayne Smith describes the basic principles of cycle time reduction, Visible Pull Systems, and bottleneck identification and protection, which are easily grasped from the CEO office down to the shop floor."―P. J. Boyle, Operations Manager, UOP LLC.
"By applying the simple, straightforward methods championed by Smith, your organization will see benefits pouring to the bottom line."―Alan Goodman, Corporate Quality Manager, ISP Company.
"Wayne Smith's cycle time reduction strategies and Visible Pull Systems are the glue that unifies all functions of the operation in all critical performance areas. Time is clearly the enemy of efficiency, and this is the best program I've seen to get the organization after it."―David E. Rousse, Vice President and General Manager, FiberMark, Inc.
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About the NAM
The National Association of Manufacturers is the nation's largestbroad-based industrial trade association. Its more than 14,000member companies and subsidiaries, including more than 10,000 smallmanufacturers, are located in every state and produce roughly 85percent of U.S. manufactured goods. Through its member companiesand affiliated associations, the NAM represents every industrialsector, 185,000 businesses, and more than 18 millionemployees.
The NAM is headquartered in Washington, D.C., and has regionaloffices across the country. For more information on the NAM, callDavid W. Walker, Assistant Vice President, Marketing and MemberServices, at (202) 637-3186.
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