Handbook of lean manufacturing in the food industry

"Lean manufacturing is a system that helps to reduce costs while improving performance and output quality. This book presents the principles of lean manufacturing as they can be applied to food manufacturing. Other books on this topic are written at a higher level and tend to attempt to shoehor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Dudbridge, Mike (Author)
Corporate Author John Wiley & Sons
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011
Subjects
potravinářství
potravinářský průmysl
ekonomika potravinářského průmyslu
ekonomická efektivnost
produktivita
food industry and trade
food industry
food industry economics
economic efficiency
productivity
příručky
elektronické knihy
handbooks, manuals, etc
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781444393125
Physical Description1 online zdroj (213 stran) : ilustrace

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • The Food Industry
  • First Steps to Lean Manufacturing
  • Teamwork and the Development of Solutions
  • Starting to Measure and Quantify Performance
  • Applying Workplace Organisation in the Food Industry
  • Improving Flexibility and Responsiveness
  • Improving what we do
  • Improving how we do things
  • Planning the Operation
  • Start of Shift Meetings
  • The Seven Wastes in the Food Industry
  • How can we make Machines Work Better?
  • How can we Let People Contribute more?
  • How Good are we?
  • Appendix 1
  • Appendix 2
  • Appendix 3
  • Index

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