Download e-book for kindle: Creating Mixed Model Value Streams: Practical Lean by Kevin J. Duggan

Following within the footsteps of its bestselling predecessor, Kevin J. Duggan, an government mentor and famous authority on Lean and Operational Excellence, attracts on greater than 10 years of expertise and studying to supply Creating combined version price Streams, moment variation. This moment variation takes a step by step method of enforcing Lean in complicated environments and describes which Lean strategies to exploit whilst confronted with tough situations—including excessive product combine, scheduling difficulties, shared assets, and volatile purchaser call for. as well as a brand new part on dealing with shared assets to help combined version creation, the second one version:

• Contains updates to sections on combined version worth streams


• Introduces new info on developing product family members matrices


• Expands at the suggestion of takt in combined versions


• Provides extra insights on present combined version options, corresponding to picking out product relations, takt capability, and heijunka (load point scheduling)


• Presents new ideas on sequencing paintings, comparable to offset scheduling and sequenced first-in, first-out (FIFO) lanes

Illustrated with a case learn in keeping with genuine adventure in addition to a CD with valuable instruments, the e-book walks readers throughout the reasoning the writer has used with nice luck in perform. It delves past the fundamentals of price movement mapping to provide an explanation for easy methods to create destiny states in a producing atmosphere characterised through a number of items, various cycle instances, and altering call for. Demonstrating complicated thoughts for growing move via shared assets, it additionally considers the idea that of a assured turnaround time for the shared source.

• Spreadsheet and instructional for sorting items into families


• Spreadsheets for calculating gear required and for making a choice on the period for each half each period (EPEI)


• Samples of visible technique sheets for normal work


• Case research worth movement maps and mapping icons