Lean-based Production Management: Practical Lean Manufacturing

Mohammad Khezrian

Lean-based Production Management

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Contents

1. About the Author

2. The fundamentals

3. FIFO vs. LIFO

4. Waste

5. Single-Minute Exchange of Die (SMED)

6. Poka-Yoke

7. 5 Why Analysis

8. 5S

9. Push Systems Manufacturing

10. Pull Systems Manufacturing

11. Capacity vs Demand

12. Role of Leadership in Forecasting

13. Retrospective Demand-based Control Charts

14. Line Balancing and Load Charts

15. Line balancing

16. Bottleneck identification

17. Wave Production Methodology (WPM)

18. New product introduction & product mix

19. Design for Excellence (DFX)

20. Product Mix and their effects on capacity & throughput

References

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About the Author

Mohammad Khezrian is a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt practitioner and has spent his career in various engineering roles in Construction Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering. As a debut author, he spent over a year researching continuous improvement methodologies that would be an ideal and practical fit for continuous improvement practitioners. His intention for future academic publications and literature would be to expand on some of the topics discussed in this book and provide further quantifiable evidence to support his claims.

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The fundamentals

Lean manufacturing is an all-encompassing term referring to a customer driven approach that aims to reduce and eliminate waste in the manufacturing process. Lean manufacturing may be summarized by the