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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809304803321

Autore

Floyd Raymond C.

Titolo

Liquid lean : developing lean culture in the process industries / / Raymond C. Floyd

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton ; ; London ; ; New York : , : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, , [2010]

©2010

ISBN

1-4398-5210-3

0-429-25024-X

1-282-50402-9

9786612504020

1-4200-8863-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (348 p.)

Disciplina

670.68

Soggetti

Manufacturing industries - Management

Chemical industry - Management

Production management - Quality control

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Front cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Business Results in Process Industries; Chapter 2. Lean Enterprise Thinking; Chapter 3. Policy Deployment; Chapter 4. Improving Flexibility and Availability in Mechanical Equipment; Chapter 5. Operational Planning to Improve Chemical Transitions; Chapter 6. Assessment and Improvement of Other Accumulations; Chapter 7. Statistical Quality Improvement; Chapter 8. Mistake Proofing or Poka-Yoke; Chapter 9. Equipment Reliability and Operator Care; Chapter 10. Lean Leadership and Ethics: Creating an Engaged Workforce

Chapter 11. People DevelopmentChapter 12. Leadership: Initiating and Sustaining Lean Operations; Back cover

Sommario/riassunto

While Lean practices have been successfully implemented into the process industry with excellent results for over 20 years (including the author's own award winning example at Exxon Chemical), that industry has been especially slow in adopting Lean. Part of the problem is that



the process industry needs its own version of Lean. The larger part of the problem is resistance to transformational change, a barrier that can only be overcome with effective leadership and results-oriented planning that engages rather than excludes all stakeholders.Winner of a 2012 Shi