Pull Production for the Shopfloor gives your shopfloor
workers the information they need to understand, plan, and implement pull
production. In a pull production system, the final process pulls needed parts
from the previous process, which pulls from the process before it, and so on, as
determined by customer demand. This allows you to operate without preset
schedules and avoid unnecessary costs, wastes, and delays on the manufacturing
floor.
Pull Production for the Shopfloor introduces production teams
and managers to basic pull production concepts, enabling them to begin
understanding, planning, and implementing this lean tool.
In this book you will learn about:
*Key concepts and applications of
pull production; *The five steps to implementing a pull production system; *Production
leveling; *Line balancing; *Managing pull production with kanban; *One-piece
flow production; *Linking your suppliers to your pull production system.