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The Perfect Engine - Driving Manufacturing Breakthroughs with the Globa (Paperback)
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Most manufacturing companies with batch-and-queue "push" production
systems have been blindsided by today's consumer who expects
quality products and services delivered on demand and customized to
individual taste. In "The Perfect Engine, " manufacturing experts
Anand Sharma and Patricia E. Moody describe for the first time how
leading "pull" production pioneers build to order by reducing
inventory, decreasing cycle time, minimizing floor space, and
eliminating waste.
Drawing on scores of examples and detailed case studies of three
leaders in the demand economy field -- Maytag, Pella, and
Mercedes-Benz -- Sharma and Moody demonstrate how these companies
achieved astonishing results using the pathbreaking LeanSigmaSM
Transformation. Combining lean production and quality elements from
the famous Six Sigma process, LeanSigma produces annual
productivity gains of 15 percent to 20 percent. In addition, the
authors show, inventory turns more than quadruple; cycle times drop
by more than 70 percent; and floor space reductions of 30 percent
to 50 percent are not uncommon. Sharma and Moody provide immensely
readable explanations of key technical aspects of the process--for
example, how cell-based one-piece flow can replace batch-and-queue
with dramatically improved lead times and inventory turnover. A
chapter on a revolutionary design technique the authors call Design
for LeanSigma or 3P (product and production preparation) shows how
to build flexibility into the product design and the production
systems at very low risk, which will be especially helpful when
forecasts and customer orders deviate from original projections, as
they usually do. Further, the Design for LeanSigma method is
devised to produce profitability at short-term volume projections,
which makes it a perfect tool for the new demand economy.
Essential, timely, and important, "The Perfect Engine" is perfect
reading for this new manufacturing era.
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