Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is a crucial measure in TPM that reports on how well equipment is running. It factors three elements ---the time the machine is actually running, the quantity of products the machine is turning out, and the quantity of good output - into a single combined score.[...]

Cellular Manufacturing: "One-Piece Flow for Workteams "introduces production teams to basic cellular manufacturing and teamwork concepts and orients them for participating in the design of a new production cell. Use this book to get everyone on board to reduce lead time, work-in-process inventory, a[...]

Just-in Time for Operators presents concepts and tools. The book includes illustrations and examples to explain basic JIT concepts and some of the changes people may encounter in a JIT implementation.[...]

Since it is human nature to make mistakes, the Zero Quality Control System (ZQC) does not blame people for errors, but instead keeps errors from becoming defects by monitoring processing conditions at the source. In this breakthrough approach, mistake-proofing devices called poka-yoke are used to ch[...]

The Lean Office: Collected Practices and Cases is a compilation of articles previously published in the Productivity Press newsletter, Lean Manufacturing Advisor. These articles discuss lean implementations in non-manufacturing operations, from design to processing invoices to customer service. Most[...]

While lean operations can produce significant benefits to an organization, the greatest benefits will not be realized unless lean is extended beyond the organization to involve both suppliers and customers. Lean Supply Chain: Collected Practices and Cases provides a variety of case studies taken fro[...]