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Made-to-Order Lean
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Made-to-Order Lean

by Greg Lane
March 2020
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
5h 34m
English
Productivity Press
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Foreword

Finally, here is a practical guide to simply introduce the Toyota Production System (TPS) in job shop environments.

Experienced lean hands know that TPS was born in what had traditionally been managed as job shops, machining operations with low volume and relatively high variety. But, as Toyota grew in fortune and TPS grew in fame, the lean production application that came to be held up as the example to study is the moving conveyor line in a large vehicle assembly plant. This has caused many who work in smaller job shops to scratch their heads wondering how to apply the techniques and tools they saw on Toyota’s assembly lines to their own highly variable environments.

The problem all along was that the key was not to focus on applying ...

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781420086881