Here at last is the first-ever encyclopedic picture book of JIT. With 218 pages of photos, drawings, and diagrams, this unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at actual production and assembly plants illustrates exactly how JIT looks and functions. It shows the way each area of a JIT plant is set up and provides hundreds of useful ideas you can implement, including: 
<ul>
<li>Multiprocess handling</li>
<li>Cell technology manufacturing</li>
<li>One-piece flow</li>
<li>Quick changeovers</li>
<li>Visual control systems</li>
<li>Kanban and andon</li>
</ul>
If you've made the crucial decision to run production using JIT and want to show your employees what it's is all about--this book is a must. The photographs, from various Japanese production and assembly plants, provide vivid depictions of what work is like in a JIT environment. And the text, simple and easy to read, makes all the essentials crystal clear.
Truly, a picture is worth a thousand words. You won't find a more accessible or enjoyable introduction to JIT anywhere. It's obvious why this is already one of our most popular books.

JIT Factory Revolution: A Pictorial Guide to Factory Design of the Future

Business & Money

Hirano, Hiroyuki

Industries

Productivity Press

The product of many years of research and development by international JIT consultant Hiroyuki Hirano, The JIT Implementation Manual is the most comprehensive material found anywhere for setting up a complete JIT program. And now, by special arrangement with the author, the price of this extraordinary tool has been drastically reduced.
Stressing the importance of overall flow in production, Hirano warns against a piecemeal approach to JIT and presents a thorough, systematic process for you to follow. The manual shows you exactly how to plan, enact, monitor, and standardize each of the 11 main types of JIT improvements:
<ol>
<li>flow production</li>
<li>multi-process operators</li>
<li>manpower reduction</li>
<li>kanban</li>
<li>visual control</li>
<li>leveling</li>
<li>changeover</li>
<li>quality assurance</li>
<li>standard operation</li>
<li>human automation</li>
<li>maintenance and safety</li>
</ol>
If you're a corporate strategist, JIT leader, or consultant who wants to eliminate waste in your manufacturing processes, here is the best permanent, in-house resource to guide you step-by-step through every phase of JIT implementation. It comes highly recommended and will bring you penetrating insight and lasting support for your JIT implementation efforts.
Hirano calls the JIT Implementation Manual the "bible for corporate survival" in manufacturing companies fighting to improve factories and overcome obstacles to measurable success. You'll find the most detailed and extensive JIT procedures ever documented. The Manual:
<ul>
<li>describes innovative engineering techniques to scientifically identify and eliminate waste.</li>
<li>helps you construct a market oriented production system, necessary to compete in today's fast-changing global marketplace.</li>
<li>enables professional consultants to uncover and remedy deep-seated problems.</li>
<li>gives JIT trainers helpful scenarios of how to respond to resistance from workers.</li>
<li>details methods for fostering motivation and employee involvement.</li>
<li>includes scores of prototype vouchers, lists, and forms that can be photocopied and used immediately.</li>
<li>illustrates JIT techniques centered on flow management with pertinent case studies</li>
</ul>The chapter-by-chapter summary provides a detailed outlineof the massive body. At over 1000 pages, the manual is packed with illustrations, photographs, tables, and every critical JIT management form. The two-volume work is bound in durable vinyl and comes in a handsome slipcase for convenient storage.

JIT Implementation Manual: The Complete Guide to Just-In-Time Manufacturing

5S para todos

Las 5S son el lugar de comienzo para cualquier actividad o programa de mejora en su lugar de trabajo. Aqui esta la clave del exito para cualquier proceso de cambio que quiera usted implementar en la fabricaci?n. Este libro le ayuda a ensenarle a sus operarios las bases de las 5S: organizar,ordenar, asear, limpieza rutinaria y disciplina. Incluye ilustraciones, gu?as de pgina, resumenes, preguntas y respuestas para asegurar asimilacion de los conceptos.

5S para todos: 5 pilares de la fabrica visual

Management & Leadership

Las fbricas son organismos vivos. Los organismos se mueven y cambian en una relacion flexible con su entorno. Un ambiente sucio, desorganizado no conduce a la mejora. Un entorno deprimente no inspira a los trabajadores hacia su potencial maximo. Cuando algunos ejecutivos preguntaron a Hiroyuki Hirano lo que debian hacer para que sus empresas sobrepasaran el siglo veintiuno, les respondio: "Implementar las 5S's." Una compania que no pueda implementar las 5S's con exito, no podra integrar efectivamente el JIT, la reingenieria, ni otros cambios en gran escala. Este libro describe como las 5S's promueven eficiencia, buen funcionamiento y mejora continua.

5 Pilares de la Fabrica Visual: La fuente para la implantacion de las 5S

Hiroyuki Hirano‘s five pillars of the visual workplace: sort, set in order, shine, standardize and sustain are the most fundamental and often overlooked aspects in continuous improvement initiatives. Together, these concepts form the framework of the 5S System, a set of principles whose simplicity often betrays its powerful impact on the workplace.So much of the 5S System seems like common sense, that it is astonishing how often such seemingly simple practices are absent in manufacturing operations. That is why Productivity Press is proud to bring you 5S for Operators: 5 Pillars of the Visual Workplace, a hands-on book that explains the principles, rationale and implementation details of the 5S System. Easy-to-read and apply, each section of the text is loaded with questions, outlines, summaries, diagrams and illustrations. Most importantly, 5S for Operators provides the foundational knowledge that is essential for implementing not just the 5S System, but overall manufacturing improvements like shorter equipment changeovers, just-in-time inventory, total quality management and total productive maintenance. Since its publication in 1996, 5S for Operators has been and continues to be hugely popular, consistently ranking among Productivity's list of top-sellers, and its popularity is not hard to understand. 5S has proven its worth in one company after another, consistently reducing waste, guaranteeing product quality, ensuring safety and increasing the bottom line. With 5S for Operators, the 5S System can have the same profound effect on your operations. To introduce the 5S system and sell its use to executives as well as workers, consider purchasing: 5S System: An Introduction DVD (Catalog no. PP5934) Adhering to the principle of efficiency that defines this revolutionary and proven system, this video succinctly explains what is involved, who should participate, and what it will take to get started

5S for Operators: 5 Pillars of the Visual Workplace (The Shopfloor Series)

Economics

The one manual that every corporate executive should read again and again re-released for the first time in an affordable paperback version
 Known as the JIT bible in Japan, this six-volume set present the genius of Hiroyuki Hirano who leaves no detail to chance in explaining ho

JIT Implementation Manual: The Complete Guide to Just-in-Time Manufacturing, Second Edition (6-Volume Set)

"It is a book for manufacturing companies that are fighting desperately for survival and that will go to any length to improve their factories and overcome the obstacles to success. One could even call this book a 'bible' for corporate survival."-Hiroyuki Hirano  &nbsp; Known as the JIT bible in Japan, JIT Implementation Manual - The Complete Guide to Just-in-Time Manufacturing presents the genius of Hiroyuki Hirano, a top international consultant with vast experience throughout Asia and the West. Encyclopedic in scope, this six-volume practical reference provides unparalleled information on every aspect of JIT- the waste-eliminating, market-oriented production system. This historic, yet timeless classic is just as crucial in today's fast-changing global marketplace as when it was first published in Japan 20 years ago. Providing a comprehensive introduction to the just-in-time production system, Volume 1: The Just-in-Time Production System dispels outdated myths and ideas about manufacturing that are still prevalent. Supplying essential background information on the JIT approach to production management, this user-friendly resource builds a strong foundation for implementation.   &nbsp;

JIT Implementation Manual -- The Complete Guide to Just-In-Time Manufacturing: Volume 1 - The Just-In-Time Production System

"It is a book for manufacturing companies that are fighting desperately for survival and that will go to any length to improve their factories and overcome the obstacles to success. One could even call this book a ‘bible’ for corporate survival." ―Hiroyuki Hirano    Known as the JIT bible in Japan, JIT Implementation Manual ― The Complete Guide to Just-in-Time Manufacturing presents the genius of Hiroyuki Hirano, a top international consultant with vast experience throughout Asia and the West. Encyclopedic in scope, this six-volume practical reference provides unparalleled information on every aspect of JIT― the waste-eliminating, market-oriented production system. This historic, yet timeless classic is just as crucial in today’s fast-changing global marketplace as when it first published in Japan 20 years ago. Volume 2: Waste and the 5S’s provides a comprehensive overview of the concepts of waste in manufacturing and methods of discovering, removing, and preventing the creation of waste. It also teaches the 5S system, a method for organizing the workplace to eliminate waste, demonstrating how to use red tags for visual control and signboards for visual orderliness. The book also illustrates how to organize jigs and tools.

JIT Implementation Manual -- The Complete Guide to Just-In-Time Manufacturing: Volume 2 -- Waste and the 5S's

"It is a book for manufacturing companies that are fighting desperately for survival and that will go to any length to improve their factories and overcome the obstacles to success. One could even call this book a 'bible' for corporate survival."-Hiroyuki Hirano  &nbsp; Known as the JIT bible in Japan, JIT Implementation Manual - The Complete Guide to Just-in-Time Manufacturing presents the genius of Hiroyuki Hirano, a top international consultant with vast experience throughout Asia and the West. Encyclopedic in scope, this six-volume practical reference provides unparalleled information on every aspect of JIT- the waste-eliminating, market-oriented production system. This historic, yet timeless classic is just as crucial in today's fast-changing global marketplace as when it was first published in Japan 20 years ago. Covering all the techniques essential to setting up a flow production system in manufacturing, Volume 3: Flow Manufacturing - Multi-Process Operations and Kanban includes a basic introduction to the relationship between inventory and flow production and their roles in manufacturing. It also provides discussion of multi-process operations and precautions and procedures for developing them. Outlining the key topic of labor cost reduction and steps to achieving it, this definitive volume also covers the essentials of kanban and visual control systems in a flow manufacturing environment.

JIT Implementation Manual -- The Complete Guide to Just-In-Time Manufacturing: Volume 3 - Flow Manufacturing - Multi-Process Operations and Kanban

Notarangelo, Raif

"It is a book for manufacturing companies that are fighting desperately for survival and that will go to any length to improve their factories and overcome the obstacles to success. One could even call this book a 'bible' for corporate survival." -Hiroyuki Hirano  &nbsp; Known as the JIT bible in Japan, JIT Implementation Manual - The Complete Guide to Just-in-Time Manufacturing presents the genius of Hiroyuki Hirano, a top international consultant with vast experience throughout Asia and the West. Encyclopedic in scope, this six-volume practical reference provides unparalleled information on every aspect of JIT- the waste-eliminating, market-oriented production system. This historic, yet timeless classic is just as crucial in today's fast-changing global marketplace as when it was first published in Japan 20 years ago. Volume 4: Leveling - Changeover and Quality Assurance provides essential background on the core concept of level production in a JIT, or lean, manufacturing system and the implementation techniques. It also discusses changeover and the rules and procedures for changeover improvement and covers quality assurance in the context of level production, including how to recognize structures that create defects, plan for achieving zero defects, and make use of mistake-proofing devices.

JIT Implementation Manual -- The Complete Guide to Just-In-Time Manufacturing: Volume 4 - Leveling - Changeover and Quality Assurance

Stern, Hal S.

Rubin, Donald B.

Carlin, Andrew

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