Like all Shopfloor Series books, Identifying Waste on the Shopfloor presents concepts and tools in simple and accessible language. The book includes many illustrations and examples to explain basic concepts and some of the challenges that are encountered when looking for and eliminating waste.

Identifying Waste on the Shopfloor is the ideal compliment to 5S, TPM, and other tools for building a lean manufacturing operation.

Productivity's Shopfloor Series books offer a simple, cost-effective approach for building basic knowledge about key manufacturing improvement topics. Identifying Waste on the Shopfloor and all our Shopfloor Series books include innovative instructional features that are the signature of the Shopfloor Series. The goal: to place powerful and proven improvement tools in the hands of your entire workforce.

Key learning features include:

Well-organized, and easy-to-assimilate learning

Chapter overviews and summaries

Questions throughout each chapter to help you apply the learning to your own workplace

Drawings and illustrations

Margin icons that flag definitions, main points, and other highlights

Sample of Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 What is Waste?
Chapter 2 The Seven Deadly Wastes
Chapter 3 How to Discover Waste
Chapter 4 How to Remove Waste
Chapter 5 How to Prevent Waste
Chapter 6 Reflections and Conclusions

ISBN# 1563272873
Author: Productivity Press Development Team
Published: 2003
Pages: 89
Binding: Paperback

Item# 70B7002