Manufacturing Operations and Supply Chain Management: The Lean Approach

by David Brunt and David H. Taylor

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861526040
• ISBN13: 9781861526045
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.5" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

A great lean book

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.