The Lean Engineering Travel Guide

The Best Itineraries for Developing New Products and Satisfying Customers
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-46494-7
Verlag: Productivity Press

Buch, Englisch, 358 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 524 g

Lean is an essential way of working in a world that is accelerating and becoming more complex. It revalues the human dimension in the company by encouraging individual thinking and initiative and gives meaning to teams that are more and more challenged by competitiveness and innovation.

This book is designed as a travel guide. The first part includes all the traditional sections from the ‘front end’ of a travel guide, including some basic vocabulary, tips, and a historical section about some of the pioneers of Lean in Engineering. The journey begins in the second part, which explains a number of Lean Engineering practices in some detail and the best itineraries to develop better products, discussing the underlying intentions and offering advice for implementation. Numerous concrete cases illustrate this part with case material drawn from the authors’ own experiences. Part Three is a brief guide to where and how to get started.

Currently, there are no books on Lean Engineering written by practising engineers who have themselves experienced the adjustment of Lean principles to the business and challenges of new product development. The authors describe tools and practices that have already been widely tested and improved by many engineers with different cultures and skills in the Thales Group and other companies. Lean Engineering as we describe it has thus been able to demonstrate its effectiveness for several years. In addition, the authors describe new unique practices invented within the framework of their activities and which thus do not exist anywhere else (e.g., causal influence diagram (CID), Pull-Scheduling Board).

Zielgruppe

Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roche, Cécile

Delamotte, Luc

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Fertigungsindustrie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Produktionsmanagement, Qualitätskontrolle
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmenskultur, Corporate Governance
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Qualitätsmanagement, Qualitätssicherung (QS), Total Quality Management (TQM)
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Forschung & Entwicklung (F&E), Innovation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part one: In the land of engineering Chapter 1 - Why this journey? Chapter 2 - The journey to Lean Chapter 3 - Before travelling Chapter 4 - Practical tips for the journey ahead Chapter 5 - A bit of history Chapter 6 - On site: Daily life Part two: Map, Territories, Pathways Chapter 7 - Obeya* Chapter 8 - Genba Walk*** Chapter 9 - The path to growth and profit Chapter 10 - The path to knowledge and sustainability Chapter 11 - SBCE, the Lean Engineering process *** Part three: Compose your itinerary Chapter 12 - The customer/product matrix Chapter 13 - Summary table Chapter 14 - Enjoy your journey Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Cécile Roche is the Lean & Agile Director for Thales Group, author, co-founder of Lean Sensei Partners, and member of the Institut Lean France. She is the author of several books and a columnist for the Lean Enterprise Institute via the Lean Sensei Women network. She supports several managers on the Gemba, in plants or development teams, inside Thales, and other companies. She is in charge of running Lean training courses in the framework of several schools or continuous training courses, in particular for Lean in engineering. She leads numerous conferences or master classes.

Luc Delamotte is an expert in product engineering and Lean. For 25 years, his career as a product engineer, engineering department manager, and project manager in international contexts has allowed him to acquire vast experience on how to best capture customer needs and how to meet them with excellent products. He is now in charge of defining the framework and the deployment policy of Lean in engineering for the whole Thales Group (worldwide). He supports the entities in their local application of the most appropriate Lean practices (local coaching) and coordinates the lean engineering network of lean experts & correspondents.