Lean TPM, Second Edition: A Blueprint for Change

✍ Scribed by Dennis McCarthy, Nick Rich Director of Research Cardiff Business School Lean Enterprise Research Centre.Senior Research Fellow sponsored by the accountancy and audit firm Deloitte and Toche. Author of Creating the Lean Enterprise 1997 Arnacorn. Recipient of the 1998 International Benchmarking Award for work in the field of Total Quality Management

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 234
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Lean TPM is an accessible, step-by-step guide designed to help you increase manufacturing efficiency through continuous improvement. Based on their experience of working with organizations that have successfully achieved outstanding performance, McCarthy and Rich provide the tools and techniques required to convert strategic vision into practical reality. Packed with real-life case studies and examples to highlight common pitfalls and proven approaches, the book focuses on the continuous improvement that can be achieved within any manufacturing environment by challenging wasteful working practices, releasing the potential of the workforce, and making processes work as planned. Lean TPM contains an integrated route map along with comprehensive benchmark data to enable engineers, technicians and managers to fully explore this potent technique.

• Unites the concepts of world-class manufacturing, lean and TPM into a single change agenda for continuous efficiency improvement
• Includes real-life case studies, advice on planning and pitfalls, and valuable benchmarking data from leading organizations
• New chapter on TPM and management of the supply chain, along with information on advanced lean practices and more implementation examples

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Preface, Page ix
Acknowledgements, Pages xi-xiii
List of Abbreviations, Page xv
Chapter One - The Business of Survival and Growth, Pages 1-25
Chapter Two - The Lean TPM Master Plan, Pages 27-54
Chapter Three - Policy Deployment: Aligning People, Processes and Products Profitably, Pages 55-70
Chapter Four - The Change Mandate: A Top-Down/Bottom-Up Partnership, Pages 71-103
Chapter Five - Transforming the Business Model, Pages 105-123
Chapter Six - Process Stabilisation, Pages 125-157
Chapter Seven - Process Optimisation, Pages 159-195
Chapter Eight - Moving beyond the Factory, Pages 197-209
Chapter Nine - Sustaining the Improvement Drive, Pages 211-230
Index, Pages 231-233