Liquid lean: developing lean culture in the process industries

✍ Scribed by Floyd, Raymond C

• Publisher: Productivity Press
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 331
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

While Lean practices have been successfully implemented into the process industry with excellent results for over 20 years (including the author's own award winning example at Exxon Chemical), that industry has been especially slow in adopting Lean. Part of the problem is that the process industry needs its own version of Lean. The larger part of t

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover......Page 1
1. Business Results in Process Industries......Page 22
2. Lean Enterprise Thinking......Page 44
3. Policy Deployment......Page 64
4. Improving Flexibility and Availabilityin Mechanical Equipment......Page 102
5. Operational Planning to ImproveChemical Transitions......Page 134
6. Assessment and Improvementof Other Accumulations......Page 160
7. Statistical Quality Improvement......Page 174
8. Mistake Proofing or Poka-Yoke......Page 198
9. Equipment Reliabilityand Operator Care......Page 216
10. Lean Leadership and Ethics:Creating an Engaged Workforce......Page 256
11. People Development......Page 280
12. Leadership: Initiating andSustaining Lean Operations......Page 302
Index......Page 0
About the Author......Page 330
Back Cover......Page 331