Quick Changeover for Operators: The Smed System (Shopfloor Series)
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Book Description
The Shopfloor Series puts powerful improvement tools in the hands of an entire workforce. And now Productivity's all-time bestseller, A Revolution in Manufacturing: The SMED System, is available in a condensed version prepared especially for front-line workers and general interest readers. Quick changeover techniques, the basis for "just-in-time" manufacturing, result in dramatically lower costs and vastly improved product quality. This peerless introduction includes chapter outlines, margin assists, illustrations, and helpful application questions. The late Shigeo Shingo was the undisputed master of advanced methods that revolutionized manufacturing worldwide. Dr. Shingo, inventor of the Single-Minute Exchange of Die (SMED) system for Toyota, shows how to reduce changeover time by an average of 98 percent! Application of Shingo's techniques can reduce lead time from weeks to days, and lower work-in-process, inventory, and warehousing costsall of which will improve quality, productivity, and profits.
Book Info
Written to give you the information you need to participate in implementing the SMED system in your workplace. Paper. DLC: Assembly-line methods.
Quick Changeover for Operators: The SMED System (Shopfloor Series),Shigeo Shingo,Productivity Press Development Team,Productivity Press,1563271257,Assembly-line methods,Business & Economics,Business / Economics / Finance,Business/Economics,CAD-CAM - General,Entrepreneurship,Machine-tools,Manufacturing - Japanese Techniques,Manufacturing processes,Organizational Behavior,Process Engineering
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