Lean Compendium Introduction to Modern Manufacturing Theory /

• Main Author: Rüttimann, Bruno G. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Engineering economics.; Engineering economy.; Production management.; Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing.; Production.

The book covers basic manufacturing theory and develops a Cartesian approach to explaining lean. It provides a structured fundament how a lean manufacturing system works. Students get a consistent approach, explaining lean by increased complexity (mono-product, multi-product, complex manufacturing s...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Prologue
• Introduction
• Modeling of production systems
• Preliminary concepts, definitions, and basic production laws
• Reducing process lead time
• Increasing cell utilization
• Linking manufacturing cells
• Triggering production
• Implementing Lean
• Epilogue
• Acknowledgements.