Manufacturing Operations and Supply Chain Management: The LEAN Approach [Paperback]

David L. Taylor (Author), David Brunt (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1861526040 | ISBN-13: 978-1861526045 | Publication Date: December 14, 2000 | Edition: 1

This text provides insights into the theory and practicalities of applying LEAN principles to, and of measuring and improving the performance of, manufacturing operations and supply chain systems. It contains a collection of articles and cases and each chapter is written so that it can be easily understood as a 'stand alone' text.

Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Cengage Learning EMEA; 1 edition (December 14, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1861526040
• ISBN-13: 978-1861526045
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,731,750 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A great lean book, April 21, 2001

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This review is from: Manufacturing Operations and Supply Chain Management: The LEAN Approach (Paperback)

This book is authoritatively written by two researchers working for Dan Jones at the Lean Enterprise Research Centre in Cardiff University. Dan is co-author of the Machine that Changed the World & Lean Thinking - the books that started the whole lean thing off - and wrote a couple of the chapters. It provides an excellent set of case studies and chapters written by a number of leading academics and practitioners in the lean arena. The book is a great reference aid for a lean practitioner. It is made up of 7 sections - including background to where lean came from and the principles, a section on analysing supply chain performance and identifying waste, examples of improvement activities conducted by the authors and the Cardiff research team, and a section (Towards the Future) looking at new areas of lean research and new lean tools that practitioners will provide thought provoking and really useful. It does a number of things really well: 1. It is a good reference book as it contains manageable chapters that can be read in isolation from one another. There are good summaries of things like the Lean Principles, 7 wastes etc. and a good section on further sources of information on lean. 2. For the practitioner there are some useful tools and techniques that can be taken away and used right away - for example the value stream mapping and demand amplification tool sections are really interesting. 3. It takes lean manufacturing and shows how it is applicable in a number of environments - very thought provoking and quite leading edge. I would say it is a very worthwhile read for anyone interested in lean - student or practitioner.