Author: Productivity Press Development Team
Written at a basic knowledge level for a wide audience, Pull Production for the Shopfloor gives your shopfloor workers the information they need to understand, plan, and implement pull production. In a pull production system, the final process pulls needed parts from the previous process, which pulls from the process before it, and so on, as determined by customer demand. This allows you to operate without preset schedules and avoid unnecessary costs, wastes, and delays on the manufacturing floor. Pull Production for the Shopfloor introduces production teams and managers to basic pull production concepts, enabling them to begin understanding, planning, and implementing this lean tool. Use this book to get everyone in your company to reduce work in process inventory, lead-time, and other profit-draining wastes. In this book you will learn about: Key concepts and applications of pull production; The five steps to implementing a pull production system; Production leveling; Line balancing; Managing pull production with kanban; One-piece flow production; Linking your suppliers to your pull production system. Productivity’s Shopfloor Series books offer a simple, cost-effective approach for building basic knowledge about key manufacturing improvement topics. All of the books, including Pull Production for the Shopfloor, include innovative instructional features.
