How to Implement Lean Manufacturing

1. What is the Perspective of this book
2. Lean Manufacturing and the Toyota Production System
3. Inventory and Variation
4. Lean Manufacturing Simplified
5. The Significance of Lead Time
6. Cultures
7. How to Do Lean – The Four Strategies to become Lean
8. How to Implement Lean – The Prescription for Lean Value Stream
9. Planning and Goals
10. Sustaining the Gains
11. Constraint Management
12. Cellular Manufacturing
13. The Story of the Alpha Line
14. The Story of the Bravo Line: A Tale of Reduced Lead Times
15. Using the Prescription – Three Case Studies
16. The Precursors to Lean not Handled Well
17. An Experiment in Variation, Dependent Events, and Inventory
18. Assessment Tools 19. A House of Lean