The Perfect Engine: Driving Manufacturing Breakthroughs
The Perfect Engine: Driving Manufacturing Breakthroughs with the Global Production System
Most manufacturing companies with batch-and-queue ‘push’ production systems have been blindsided by today’s consumer who expects quality products and services delivered on demand and customized to individual taste. In The Perfect Engine, manufacturing experts Anand Sharma and Patricia E. Moody describe for the first time how leading ‘pull’ production pioneers build to order by reducing inventory, decreasing cycle time, minimizing floor space, and eliminating waste. Drawing on scores of examples and detailed case studies of three leaders in the demand economy field — Maytag, Pella, and Mercedes-Benz — Sharma and Moody demonstrate how these companies achieved astonishing results using the pathbreaking Lean Sigma SM Transformation. Combining lean production and quality elements from the famous Six Sigma process, Lean Sigma produces annual productivity gains of 15 percent to 20 percent. In addition, the authors show, inventory turns more than quadruple; cycle times drop by more than 70 p
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