Creating a Lean Culture

Book Description

2006 SHINGO PRIZE for EXCELLENCE in MANUFACTURING RESEARCH

Lean production has been proven unbeatable in organizing production operations, yet the majority of attempts to implement lean end in disappointing results. The critical factor so often overlooked is that lean implementation requires day-to-day, hour-by-hour management practices and skills that leaders in conventional batch-and-queue environments are neither familiar nor comfortable with.

Creating a Lean Culture helps lean leaders succeed in their personal batch-to-lean transformation. It provides a practical guide to implementing the missing links needed to sustain a lean implementation.  Mann provides critical guidance on developing and using the key elements of a lean management system, including:  leader standard work, visual controls, daily accountability processes, maintaining a process focus, managing key HR issues, and much more.  In addition, a questionnaire is included to help assess current management practices and monitor progress.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Acknowledgements
Part I: What is the Lean Management System? Principal Elements of Lean Management
Chapter 1: The Missing Link in Lean: The Management System
Chapter 2: The Lean Management System's Principle Elements
Chapter 3: Standard Work for Leaders
Chapter 4: Visual Controls
Chapter 5: Daily Accountability Process
Part II: Learning Lean Management and Production: Supporting Elements of Lean Management
Chapter 6: Learning Lean Management: The Sensei and Gemba Walks
Chapter 7: Leading a Lean Operation
Chapter 8: Solving Problems and Improving Processes - Rapidly
Chapter 9: People - Predictable Interruption; Source of Ideas
Chapter 10: Sustain What You Implement
Appendix
Glossary
References
Index