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Beschreibung
Drawing on 40 years of application experience at one of the world's largest chemical and materials manufacturers, King provides the first comprehensive resource written explicitly for change agents within the process industries.
Drawing on 40 years of application experience at one of the world's largest chemical and materials manufacturers, King provides the first comprehensive resource written explicitly for change agents within the process industries.
Über den Autor

Peter L. King is the president of Lean Dynamics, LLC, a manufacturing improvement consulting firm located in Newark, Delaware. Prior to founding Lean Dynamics, Pete spent 42 years with the DuPont Company, in a variety of control systems, manufacturing systems engineering, Continuous Flow Manufacturing, and Lean Manufacturing assignments. That included 18 years applying Lean Manufacturing techniques to a wide variety of products, including sheet goods like DuPont(TM) Tyvek(R), Sontara(R), and Mylar(R); fibers such as nylon, Dacron(R), Lycra(R), and Kevlar(R); automotive paints; performance lubricants; bulk chemicals; adhesives; electronic circuit board substrates; and biological materials used in human surgery. On behalf of DuPont, Pete has consulted with key customers in the processed food and carpet industries. Pete retired from DuPont in 2007, leaving a position as Principal Consultant in the Lean Center of Competency. Recent clients have included producers of sheet goods, lubricants and fuel additives, vitamins and nutritional supplements, and polyethylene and polypropylene pellets.

Pete received a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech, graduating with honors. He is Six Sigma Green Belt certified (DuPont, 2001), Lean Manufacturing certified (University of Michigan, 2002), and is a Certified Supply Chain Professional (APICS, 2010). He is a member of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence, APICS, and the Institute of Industrial Engineers.

He served as president of IIE's Process Industry Division in 2009-2010. Pete is the author of Lean for the Process Industries--Dealing with Complexity (Productivity Press, 2009), and several published articles on the application of Lean concepts to process operations. He is the co-author of The Product Wheel Handbook--Creating Balanced Flow in High Mix Process Operations

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Lean Overview The Process Industries: what makes them unique Value Stream Mapping the Process Industries The Basics: Kaizen Events The 8 Wastes in the Process Industries Set-up reduction & SMED Total Productive Maintenance Visual Management Dealing with Complexity: Finding, managing, and improving Bottlenecks Cell design in the Process Industries Production scheduling, production sequencing, production leveling: Product Wheels Lead time improvement Postponement: Finish-to-Order Pull Systems Supermarket design Fixed interval replenishment Fixed quantity replenishment Managing variability: Safety Stock Creating the Future State Map The importance of robust business processes Appendix: The Hypothetical Process description and data

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Wirtschaft
Rubrik: Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium: Buch
ISBN-13: 9780367023324
ISBN-10: 0367023326
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: King, Peter L.
Auflage: 2. Auflage
Hersteller: Productivity Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 240 x 161 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Peter L. King
Erscheinungsdatum: 19.06.2019
Gewicht: 0,725 kg
Artikel-ID: 126414909

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