Thursday, June 30, 2022

How to Make a Machine Shop Lean - Dr. Shahrukh Irani - Chapter Summary


According to me lean is initially applied to inventory by MIT team. Then extended to all resources. Then they first extended idea to waste. Basically lean initially is only part of industrial engineering. In a clever way, thelean proponents went extending lean concept to include all the objectives of industrial engineering but they could not accept all the techniques and tools of IE. Hence, the effectiveness of lean is not up to the expectations and sufficient criticism of Lean has surfaced. Now Even Jim Womack accepts that lean is not encountering problems in giving expected results.

But, readers have to learn the recommended lean implementation procedures as lean has value as one of the tasks of industrial engineering. It is certainly an advance in IE based productivity improvement.

Preview the chapter by Dr. Shahrukh Irani

https://books.google.co.in/books?id=binhDwAAQBAJ&pg=330#v=onepage&q&f=false

in the book - Job Shop Lean: An Industrial Engineering Approach to Implementing Lean in High-Mix Low-Volume Production Systems  By Shahrukh A. Irani.

Copyright Year 2020

https://www.routledge.com/Job-Shop-Lean-An-Industrial-Engineering-Approach-to-Implementing-Lean-in/Irani/p/book/9781498740692




Lean Tools to Use in Machine Shop


Leanness or "Lean Strategy" Planning

Gemba Walks

Workplace Design with 6S

SMED

TPM

Poka Yoke

Quality at Source - In Process (F.W. Taylor)

Visual Workplace

Right-sized Flexible Machine

Standard Work

Standardized Process

Continuous Problem Solving 



Published 8/1/2018 

10 Lean Manufacturing Ideas for Machine Shops

In addition to the right mix of traditional strategies, a new lean manufacturing toolkit can make high-mix, low-volume machining faster, more predictable and less expensive.

DR. SHAHRUKH A. IRANI, LEAN & FLEXIBLE LLC

https://www.mmsonline.com/articles/10-lean-manufacturing-ideas-for-machine-shops

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