Books by Hiroyuki Hirano

5S is the starting point of any on-the-floor improvement activity and the key to successful change. Teach your workers the basics of 5S: organisation, orderliness, cleanliness, standard cleanup and discipline. Many illustrations, page headers, chapter summaries and application questions.

Presenting details on how to implement standardized operations in manufacturing, including essential information on how to establish, improve, and preserve standard operations, this title covers the key topic of Jidoka, or human autonomation - essentially how to separate human activity from machine work without producing defects.

Offers a comprehensive overview of the concepts of waste in manufacturing and methods of discovering, removing, and preventing the creation of waste. This book teaches the 5S system, a method for organizing the workplace to eliminate waste, demonstrating how to use red tags for visual control and signboards for visual orderliness.

Offers a comprehensive diagnostic tool for JIT operations and includes many checklists, memos, and essential forms for recognizing waste in operations and implementing the 5S's. This title includes engineering forms for line-balancing, skills training, visual controls, changeover improvement, mistake-proofing, and standard operations.

Presents background on the core concept of level production in a JIT, or lean, manufacturing system and the implementation techniques. This title discusses changeover and the rules and procedures for changeover improvement and covers quality assurance in the context of level production, including how to recognize structures that create defects.

Covering the techniques essential to setting up a flow production system in manufacturing, this title includes a basic introduction to the relationship between inventory and flow production and their roles in manufacturing. It provides discussion of multi-process operations and precautions and procedures for developing them.

Offers a comprehensive introduction to the just-in-time production system. This text provides a comprehensive manual for setting up a Just-in-Time manufacturing program from start to finish.

Explains how to implement and maintain a Just-in-Time manufacturing program. This book provides information on various aspects of JIT, from its philosophical underpinnings to the myriad systems, techniques, and tools for different factory settings.

Las fbricas son organismos vivos. Los organismos se mueven y cambian en una relacion flexible con su entorno. Un ambiente sucio, desorganizado no conduce a la mejora. Un entorno deprimente no inspira a los trabajadores hacia su potencial maximo

5S is the starting point of any on-the-floor improvement activity and the key to successful change. Teach your workers the basics of 5S: organisation, orderliness, cleanliness, standard cleanup and discipline. Many illustrations, page headers, chapter summaries and application questions.

This book describes how the 5S's foster efficiency, maintenance, and continuous improvement in all areas of your company.