Advanced Flow Manufacturing

By Tekin Cetinkaya, Richard D. Rahn, Ali S. Kiran, et al.

Flow and lean manufacturing methods have become a necessity in today's competitive world, for manufacturing and non-manufacturing companies to need to be fast, good and make a profit. Advanced Flow... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0971303193
• ISBN13: 9780971303195
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Flow Pub
• Length: 94 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.2" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Very Concise / Very Different / Not a Reference / Fills in the Cracks!

At first glance, I was furious! Tiny, skinny, little thing! Then I started to scan it. Oh no! Look at all the buzzwords and euphemisms! Then I started to read it. Guess what? It's really good. Lot's of DIFFERENT stuff you don't hear other places. Would this be a good one book to have on Flow or Lean? No. I don't think so. But would it be one of the best books in your Manufacturing Engineering Library? Yes. I think it would be. For example, they talk a lot about computer simulation. How important it is. How surprising the results might be. I just happened to be doing a simulation when I started this book. So they won me over. I was wondering why no one had mentioned the criticality of simulating your workcell(s)! Indeed, it is "Advanced" on the subject of Flow Manufacturing. And hear and there I find more of these little tidbits. The authors, despite an unabashed penchant for "Consulting Buzzwords," provide exactly the kind of information you won't find in "those" kinds of books. A strange but quite gratifying experience. This book is for you if you've been studying for a Lean Transformation (especially from a Batch Job Shop), but are starting to tire of reading the same ole same ole, over and over again. Reading through this material was rather like an Easter Egg hunt. It's not a whole dinner; but it's a special treat. An after dinner Cognac. Authoritative. Very different.

A must for anyone starting a lean initiative

Best book on lean that I have seen yet! The book is just what I needed!

Great book

Very informative and easy to read and follow.

Excellent road map for success

I found the book very interesting. I could not put it down! Recommend this for anyone who wants to get an edge in their business.