Thin Air : How Wireless Technology Supports Lean Initiatives

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ISBN: 9781439804391 | 1439804397
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Copyright: 6/1/2010

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This book proposes practices and paradigms to help you seamlessly integrate Lean's culture of continuous process improvement with wireless technology. It discusses the application of a wide range of wireless technologies, including Wi-Fi, RFID, wireless sensor networks (WSNs), real-time location systems (RTLSs), and global positioning systems (GPS). It addresses the modernization of infrastructure, elimination of costly hardware and redundant equipment, the facilitation of e-Kanban, and the provision of real-time visibility into any operation. The text also includes access to a Lean Wireless ROI Calculator you can use to calculate estimated savings in labor and excess capacity in your company.

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction-The Confusion of the Tongues	p. xiii
Lean Wireless Is Already Here	p. 1
Rules before Tools	p. 4
Complex Business Environments Require Technology for Visibility	p. 5
Lean Leaders Embrace Wireless	p. 6
To Ignore Wireless Tools Is to Forgo Progress	p. 8
Wireless in Lean and Six Sigma	p. 9
The Marriage of Lean and Six Sigma	p. 13
Lean's New Neighbor-Wireless	p. 14
Wireless on the Value Stream	p. 15
The Wireless Tsunami	p. 17
Wireless = Modern	p. 18
The Wired to Wireless Progression	p. 20
Wireless, Near and Far	p. 21
The Retail Driver	p. 23
Wireless Growth Is a Step-Change Evolution	p. 25
Brace Yourself: Wireless Momentum Will Only Quicken	p. 27
Surprise-The Modern Network Is Already Here-We Need Only Plug In	p. 28
How Lean Is This?	p. 29
Endnotes	p. 32
Why Now? Lean Wireless and the Costs of Doing Business	p. 35
The Unbearable Cost of Business	p. 35
The Immovable Structural Costs	p. 36
The Tax Burden	p. 37
A More Inclusive Picture-Variable Costs	p. 39
The Lean, Wireless, and Lean Wireless Value Propositions	p. 40
Information Is Lean	p. 41
America and Its Companies Require Wireless Strength	p. 42
American Companies Require Near-Term Results (Not Solutions)	p. 44
Wireless Provides Fast-Track ROT	p. 44
Automation Means More Work-Not Less	p. 45
Endnotes	p. 46
The Lean Wireless Missions	p. 47
Adopt a New Paradigm: Rules Before Tools = Results	p. 48
Tools Before Rules Is a Mistake	p. 51
Attack Wireless Waste (iMuda)	p. 51
iMuda	p. 52
The iMuda of Complexity and Overkill	p. 54
The iMuda of Choice	p. 56
True Tales of Bad Choices: The Super Bowl Virus	p. 56
True Tales 2: The Accidental Spy	p. 57
The iMuda of Risk 2.0	p. 57
The iMuda of Terabytes	p. 59
Overcome the Inertia of Legacy	p. 61
Focus First upon Internal Value Streams	p. 63
Identify Opportunities for Wireless Value	p. 65
Value from Mobile Workers and Equipment	p. 66
Create Job-Specific and Micro-Value Streams	p. 69
Apply Airsourcing as You Would Outsourcing or Offshoring	p. 70
Return to Processes, and Mobilize Them	p. 71
Plug Value Streams into the "Internet of Things"	p. 72
The Intent of the Internet of Things	p. 73
Redirect the Lean Mission from Making Things to Moving Things	p. 74
The Internet of Computers versus the IOT	p. 75
RTLS and WSNs	p. 76
The 5Ws versus 5Ss	p. 77
Why the IOT Is Not the Internet	p. 78
Devise Lean, Universal Number Schemes	p. 79
The EPC Numbering System	p. 81
Numbering versus Serialization	p. 83
The Challenges	p. 84
The Answer: A Purposeful Lean Rollout	p. 85
Ease the Disease of Wireless Ownership	p. 86
The Answer: Find the Right Tool for the Right Job	p. 87
Focus upon Essential Data	p. 88
Practice Agnosticism-It Is Lean	p. 89
Devices, Processes, and People Become "Nodes" on the Nerve Path	p. 90
If Only It Were That Easy: Connecting the Edge and the Back End	p. 92
Question Integration, Always	p. 94
Smart-Edge Infrastructures	p. 95
Simplified, Lower-Cost Visibility	p. 95
Manage the Troublesome Social/Enterprise Interface	p. 97
The Real Costs of Play at Work	p. 99
So Long, Lunchpail	p. 101
Millennial Learning Is Lean	p. 103
Millennial Question Authority and Policy and Are Not above Defying Them	p. 104
Tales beyond 2000: The End of Secrets	p. 104
Viral Information for Good and for Ill	p. 107
The Answer: Airsource and Automate Decisions and Behaviors	p. 108
The Value of Airsourced and Automated Decisions	p. 109
Not All Decisions Can Be Automated	p. 111
Design Effective Interfaces	p. 112
The Wearable, Always-on Interface	p. 113
Keeping the Interfaces on Mission	p. 117
Harness the Social Utility	p. 118
Scalability: Use Wireless to Open the Loops	p. 119
Scalability, Enterprise wide	p. 120
Scalability into Supply Chain and Open Loops	p. 120
The Requirement: Higher Visibility, Edge Intelligence	p. 122
The Opportunity Finally Exists to Open the Loops	p. 122
RTLS in the Open Loop	p. 122
Case Study: Kanban Replenishment	p. 123
Endnotes	p. 125
The Democratic Frontiers of Lean Wireless	p. 129
Crowdsourcing: We All Own (and Drive) Innovation	p. 130
The Wireless Library	p. 132
The Wireless Athlete	p. 132
Extreme Traceability, from Farm to Fork	p. 133
The Lean Wireless Election: A Supply Chain Success	p. 135
The Lean Wireless Election 2: Web 2.0 and Decision 2008	p. 138
Lean Wireless President and Police	p. 139
Wireless Justice	p. 141
The Significance of iWIP	p. 143
iWIP in Lean Manufacturing	p. 145
The Healthcare Proving Ground, Part 1: Lean Wireless Inventory Management	p. 148
A Lean Wireless Answer	p. 149
Is This Truly Lean-And How Does It Apply to Other Verticals?	p. 150
Measurements and Metrics	p. 151
The End-to-End Supply Chain	p. 152
Technology as a Tool in Healthcare	p. 152
Pull-from-Demand	p. 153
The Healthcare Proving Ground, Part 2: RTLS Adds Value	p. 154
Controlling Cost and Risk	p. 154
Democracy Marches On	p. 155
Endnotes	p. 156
Afterword (and Forward): Lean Wireless 2015	p. 159
The Reality	p. 160
Endnotes	p. 162
Lean Glossary	p. 163
Lean Principles	p. 163
Lean Rules	p. 163
Lean Concepts	p. 164
Lean Tools	p. 165
Wireless Glossary	p. 167
Standards Used in Wireless Enterprises	p. 189
Lean Wireless ROI	p. 191
How Precisely Can We Measure the ROI of Lean Wireless?	p. 192
The Barrier of Distrust	p. 193
The Components of Any Cost	p. 194
Presume Value (for the Sake of Argument), and Forge Ahead	p. 195
Define Your Business with Baselining	p. 197
Conduct a Whiteboard Study	p. 198
Conduct a DILO Study	p. 198
Reconcile Process Maps and DILO	p. 200
Target a Short List of Process Improvements	p. 200
Choose between Proof of Concept or Full Steam Ahead	p. 200
Conduct a Technical Evaluation	p. 201
Conduct an Environmental Analysis	p. 201
Select a Suitable Technology	p. 204
Calculate Theoretical ROI	p. 205
Quantify the Benefits	p. 206
Quantify the Costs	p. 209
Calculate the Risks (in Dollars)	p. 210
At Last-Calculate ROI	p. 210
How Not to Install RFID: 15 Blunders	p. 211
How to Select a Wireless Integrator	p. 213
WIP Management, RFID, and ROI	p. 214
RFID for Work-in-Process	p. 215
Enter RFID	p. 216
RFID Metal Mount Tags for Work-in-Process	p. 216
Endnotes	p. 217
Index	p. 219
The Authors	p. 231
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