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Lean in Agriculture

October 2018

Intermediate to advanced

180 pages

4h 13m

English

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1.1 What is Lean?1.1.1 The Lean History1.1.2 Lean – Less of Everything
2.1 This is How Lean Can be Used in Agriculture 2.1.1 An Additional Gear2.1.2 What is “Value for the Customer” at Your Farm? 2.1.3 An Eye-opener for Waste in Production2.1.4 More Money to Make with Lean2.1.5 Lean Provides Motivation and Commitment
3.1 Identify Value3.2 Map the Value Stream 3.3 Create Flow3.4 Establish Pull3.5 Continuous Improvement

4.1 The Eight Wastes of Lean4.1.1 Learn to See4.1.2 Examples of Waste
5.1 Involve Your Employees5.1.1 Traditional, Modern Management and Lean Management5.1.2 Motivation Requires Trust and Respect5.1.3 Appreciative Leadership5.1.4 Change Management5.1.5 Communication and Questioning Technique5.1.6 Use of Questions in Lean Work5.1.7 Talking Stick5.1.8 Catchball5.1.9 Communication with Sticky Notes5.1.10 Five Whys
6.1 That is How You Work with Goals6.1.1 The Burning Platform6.1.2 What is a Burning Platform?6.2 What is a Good Goal?6.2.1 Involve Your Employees6.3 Breaking Down of Goals6.3.1 Performance Goals and Effort Goals6.4 Goal Management6.4.1 Visible Goal Management6.4.2 Action Plans6.4.3 Examples of Content in Action Plans6.4.4 Visible Action Plans
7.1Tools7.1.1 WeekPlanner7.1.2 Board Meeting at the Improvement Board – Kaizen7.1.3 PDCA7.1.4 Value Stream Mapping7.1.5 Standardization7.1.6 5S7.1.7 Kanban7.1.8 TPM7.1.9 SMED
8.1 How to Implement Lean at Your Farm 8.1.1 The Current State of Your Farm8.1.2 Leanstart With Simple Tools8.1.3 Expect a Trough8.1.4 Plan for the Implementation of Lean
9.1 Results with Lean 9.1.1 The Production Strategy is Lean9.1.2 Impressive Decrease in Costs at Esbjerg Dairy 9.1.3 Lean – Just Common Sense
10.1 Dictionary