An introduction to lean work design. Volume I, Fundamentals of lean operations / Lawrence D. Fredendall and Matthias Thürer.
Lean Work Design comes directly from our view that lean operations results from the work design. This book uses three existing work design theories to study lean operations and to identify the principles of lean operations. First, systems theory is used to conceptualize how lean operations differ fr...
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New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) :
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2016.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Supply and operations management collection.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Lean work design
- 2. Customers drive the lean company
- 3. Process flow
- 4. Little's law
- 5. The effects of variance in the system
- 6. Buffer management
- 7. People
- 8. Organizational structure
- 9. Why communication is important?
- 10. Summary
- Index.