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

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:

1. flow production
2. multi-process operators
3. manpower reduction
4. kanban
5. visual control
6. leveling
7. changeover
8. quality assurance
9. standard operation
10. human automation
11. maintenance and safety

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:

• describes innovative engineering techniques to scientifically identify and eliminate waste.
• helps you construct a market oriented production system, necessary to compete in today's fast-changing global marketplace.
• enables professional consultants to uncover and remedy deep-seated problems.
• gives JIT trainers helpful scenarios of how to respond to resistance from workers.
• details methods for fostering motivation and employee involvement.
• includes scores of prototype vouchers, lists, and forms that can be photocopied and used immediately.
• illustrates JIT techniques centered on flow management with pertinent case studies

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.