Category : Lean
Working with Machines: The Nuts and Bolts of Lean Operations with Jidoka   
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Description:
In Working with Machines: The Nuts and Bolts of Lean Operations With Jidoka, author Michel Baudin explains how performance differences that can be observed between factories are due to the way people use the machines -- from the human interfaces of individual machines to the linking of machines into cells, the management of monuments and common services, autonomation, maintenance, and production control.

This compelling book:

Emphasizes the importance of the "Jidoka" pillar of the Toyota Production System, which is engineering the way people work with machines.
Deals with the art of bringing groups of machines together into "cells."
Addresses the problematic issues associated with "monuments" - those machines that provide services for production lines across a broad variety of products, but cannot be organized into cells.
Compares automation as it has been developed in the US , as a stand-alone discipline with a lean manufacturing approach, to the management of automated systems implemented before a plant started its lean conversion.
This book provides manufacturing managers and engineers, lean champions and consultants with strategies and tools to make the technical and managerial decisions that turn working with machines into a lasting business success.



Contents:
A guided tour

Part I: Human-Machine interfaces

Chapter 1: Using machine controls
Chapter 2: Performing operations on machines
Chapter 3: Understanding the process
Chapter 4: Programming machines

Part II: Machine cells

Chapter 5: Cellular manufacturing with machines
Chapter 6: Design and implementation of a machine cell
Chapter 7: From operator job design to task assignment
Chapter 8: Cell automation and chaku-chaku line
Chapter 9: Grouping cells into focuses factories

Part III: Common services and monuments

Chapter 10: Working with monuments
Chapter 11: Setup time reduction

Part IV: Automation

Chapter 12: The lean approach to automation
Chapter 13: Improving legacy automated systems

Part V: Machine maintenance

Chapter 14: Machine and facilities maintenance
Chapter 15: Improving maintenance
Chapter 16: Maintenance information systems
Chapter 17: Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)

Where should you go from here?

Bibliography
Index