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One-Piece Flow: Cell Design for Transforming the Production Process

3 reviews
Kenichi Sekine

Productivity Press, 2005

One Piece Flow Cell Design
This book does an excellent job of explaining how lean or Toyota Production System (TPS) cells are designed. It covers all of the principles and has many examples. If you are designing work cells or need to understand their design, this is a book you should read and keep handy.

Dise¤o de Clulas de Fabricaci¢n: Transformacion de las F bricas para la Producci¢n en Flujo
Bob Sproull, Kenichi Sekine

Productivity Press, 1993

Cuando usted reconfigura sus lineas de ensamble a celdas de producci?n de una pieza, puede reducir drasticamente su tiempo de entrega, personal, y numero de defectos. Este libro examina los principios basicos del flujo de proceso y analiza catorce estudios de casos en los cuales se disenaron sistemas unicos para necesidades especificas. Entre los casos, la compania "T" redujo en dos meses sus trabajadores de linea de 27 a 15; la fbrica "Z" ...

Goldgrube Fertigung. Schnelle Steigerung der Produktivität.
Kenichi Sekine, Hans Seifert

MI, 1995

Kaizen for Quick Changeover: Going Beyond SMED

1 review
Keisuke Arai, Kenichi Sekine

Productivity Press, 2006

Unfortunately this is not a very helpful book
I had hoped that this would be an extension of Shigeo Shingo's "A Revolution in Manufacturing: The SMED System," but unfortunately it is not really helpful. The writing is convoluted. The translation could be better. I didn't find anything in this book that wasn't explained much more clearly in Shingo's book.

Cellular Manufacturing Learning Package: One-Piece Flow for Work Teams Learning Package (Introduce Production ...
Kenichi Sekine

Productivity Press, 1999

This learning package introduces production teams to basic cellular manufacturing and teamwork concepts and orients them for participating in the design of a new production cell. You will learn: Waste reducing benefits of organizing the workstations in cells, so that work flows smoothly in the process sequence. What to expect when you work in a manufacturing cell ? a U shaped arrangement, minimal inventory, moving with the work, and ...

TPM for the Lean Factory: Innovative Methods and Worksheets for Equipment Management (Time-Tested Equipment ...
Keisuke Arai, Kenichi Sekine

Productivity Press, 1998

Lean manufacturing cannot happen in a factory that lacks dependable, effective equipment. Breakdowns and processing defects translate into excess work-in-process and finished inventory, kept on hand "just in case." Recurring minor stoppages force employees to watch automated equipment that should run by itself. TPM gives a framework for addressing such problems, but many companies implement TPM at a superficial level, and the resulting ...

Design Team Revolution: How to Cut Lead Times in Half and Double Your Productivity
Keisuke Arai, Kenichi Sekine

Productivity Press, 1994

Managers of design departments face numerous obstacles and questions when trying to make internal changes, including ? Identifying waste in the design process Eliminating bottlenecks Reducing repetition to an absolute minimum Knowing when to employ parallel design instead of letting a designer work on a project from start to finish In this text, consultants Sekine and Arai first identify the difficulties of ...