Manufacturing Management

5S is a simple and highly effective set of lean manufacturing techniques that removes waste from the work environment through a better workplace organization, general cleanliness, and effective visual communication.

You're about to learn the secrets to properly adapt lean manufacturing into your business, no matter how much time you have had to prepare! It doesn't matter if you've never experienced lean manufacturing up close and personal, this guide will tell you everything you need to know, without spending too much brainpower!

Lean Manufacturing Made Obvious for Leaders is a practical guide for managers, supervisors, business owners, and improvement leaders who want real operational progress without jargon, consultant fog, or overly academic theory. This book shows you how to make work visible, understandable, and sustainable so your team can run with it.

What can you do to boost capacity overnight when you’re running at 100%? When failure of your mission could be broadcast worldwide? These questions were central to the team that supplied equipment to the Gulf of Mexico during the Macondo spill and the historic mop-up – the cleaning of more than 10,000 boats, ships, and rigs. A small team of experts fanned out across the globe to work with producers of skimmers, boom, absorbent materials, and other products to meet record-setting demand and timelines.

Take a tour with the author inside more than 30 world-class facilities to experience the most remarkable innovations and highly sophisticated robotics and automation in action. Capture a front-row seat to top-brand, big-budget manufacturing in action with complex machines communicating with other machines. However, you can also learn from small-to-medium size manufacturers. Discover how some simple tried-and-true, old-school, low-budget manufacturing processes can be game-changers for industry.

The way we manage our production is drastically changing. In last two decades, a model in which goods were manufactured in low-cost countries and efficiently transported was successful. Now is the time when majority of the players are relying on cutting-edge technologies and replicating models across the globe. Industry 4.0 is being exponentially adopted. The business models are obvious and available. The Eco-system is flexible for plug and play as per requirements. There is no second thought that who-ever cannot adopt industry 4.0 will fail.

This audible book reviews nine essential leadership qualities designed to encourage, up and coming, leaders as to their mission and purpose of leadership, which is to strengthen others. I speak of leadership from both the business and church perspective.

Inspired Manufacturing Leadership answers the question of how to systematically incorporate Kaizen, metric management, problem solving, people development, culture change, and many more improvement efforts into one cohesive system of implementation. It reveals to leaders how to effectively and systematically challenge all processes having them to become predictable and repeatable. Once implemented, it facilitates the achievement of breakthrough results.

Laine Griffey brings over 20 years of expertise in quality management, with a strong background in both operations and quality. With a career spanning diverse industries from plastics to automotive, Laine has consulted with numerous companies in developing and enhancing their quality management systems. Having worked at every level from the production line to management, and performing tasks ranging from internal audits to supplier quality assessments, Laine is a recognized authority in the field.