The 12 Principles of Manufacturing Excellence: A Lean Leader's Guide to Achieving and Sustaining Excellence, Second Edition
- 5h 7m
- Larry E. Fast
- CRC Press
- 2016
Following in the tradition of its bestselling predecessor, The 12 Principles of Manufacturing Excellence: A Lean Leader's Guide to Achieving and Sustaining Excellence, Second Edition outlines a comprehensive, proven process for delivering world-class performance while also cultivating the right culture through leadership, mentoring, and hourly associate involvement.
While most books on continuous improvement focus on specific tools and methods, this book details a top-down strategy and process that Lean leaders can use to implement and sustain manufacturing excellence. It outlines a clear pathway to excellence via the 12 Principles of Manufacturing Excellence and provides a method for tracking progress - plant by plant and function by function.
This updated edition includes a new chapter on real stories about poor leadership at the top. Also featured are new and updated figures and exhibits. It contains chapters devoted to each principle of manufacturing excellence along with a chapter on each leader's role. Illustrating the importance of using Lean and Six Sigma tools to improve your business, the book:
- Details a comprehensive approach for achieving and sustaining excellence?from board room strategy to shop floor execution
- Integrates strategy and leadership development
- Paves a path for culture change that prepares hourly employees to take control of their processes and prepares management to enable them to do it
- Details an audit process for identifying priorities for improvement and tracking progress and ensuring sustainability
Tapping into more than four decades of leadership experience, 35 years of it in the manufacturing industry, Larry Fast explains how to achieve both vertical and horizontal alignment across your organization. Like the previous edition, the book includes a CD with color versions of the images in the book, a manufacturing excellence reading list, and formulas for selected metrics.
The CD also includes a sample manufacturing excellence audit (a powerful tool to achieve and sustain the journey), a sample communications plan, a sample communications plan calendar, a sample training plan, and a new Project Prioritization worksheet?all of which can be easily customized to meet your organization’s specific needs.
In this Book
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The 12 Principles of Manufacturing Excellence─A Lean Leader's Guide to Achieving and Sustaining Excellence, Second Edition
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Foreword
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Preface
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Leading the Revolution—From the Top
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The Manufacturing Excellence Strategy
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Manufacturing Principle 1: Safety
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Manufacturing Principle 2: Good Housekeeping and Organization
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Manufacturing Principle 3: Authorized Formal Systems
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Manufacturing Principle 4: Preventive/Predictive Maintenance
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Manufacturing Principle 5: Process Capability
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Manufacturing Principle 6: Product Quality
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Manufacturing Principle 7: Delivery Performance
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Manufacturing Principle 8: Visual Management
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Manufacturing Principle 9: Continuous Improvement
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Manufacturing Principle 10: Communication
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Manufacturing Principle 11: Training
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Manufacturing Principle 12: Operator-Led Process Control
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Plant Manager’s Role
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Manufacturing Manager’s Role
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Materials Manager’s Role
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Process Engineering Manager’s Role
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Maintenance Manager’s Role
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Quality Manager’s Role
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Human Resources Manager’s Role
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The Finance Manager/ Plant Controller’s Role
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Sustaining Manufacturing Excellence
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The 12 Principles of Manufacturing Excellence
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Manufacturing Excellence Audit
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Manufacturing Excellence Reading List, 1986–2010
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Formulas for Selected Metrics
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Example of a Communications Plan Calendar 20XX
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Example of a Training Plan
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Project Prioritization Form
