Books in the The Shopfloor Series series

Cellular Manufacturing: "One-Piece Flow for Workteams "introduces production teams to basic cellular manufacturing and teamwork concepts and orients them for participating in the design of a new production cell. Use this book to get everyone on board to reduce lead time, work-in-process inventory, and other profit-draining wastes. Each chapter includes an overview and a summary to reinforce concepts, as well as reflection questions, which can be used to encourage group discussions. This volume is part of Productivity Press' "Shopfloor Series," which offers a simple, cost-effective approach for building basic knowledge about key manufacturing improvement topics

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 provides operators, supervisors, team leaders, and TPM co-ordinators with useful guidance for autonomous maintenance.

This resource introduces production teams and managers to basic pull production concepts, enabling them to begin understanding, planning, and implementing this lean tool.

A participant guide to support team leaders in implementing an autonomous maintenance team.

A participant guide to support team leaders in implementing an autonomous maintenance team.

Focused equipment improvement (FEI) is one of the pillars of TPM. This book gives shopfloor TPM teams, including production workers, maintenance technicians, engineers, and managers, a framework for further improving equipment performance.

Discusses team problem solving and steps for preparing good presentations of results. For front-line supervisors, operators, facilitators and trainers.

Just-in Time for Operators presents concepts and tools. The book includes illustrations and examples to explain basic JIT concepts and some of the changes people may encounter in a JIT implementation.

Workshop leaders play a central role in your company's efforts to implement TPM. Once your workers have been divided into small groups to learn the fundamentals of TPM, it is the group leader who spearheads ongoing training and implementation activities. This book addresses the role of the workshop leader in maximizing the benefits of TPM.

Prepare your entire workforce to truly benefit from your next kaizen event! Now you can give your frontline employees the information they need to understand, plan, and implement kaizen.

ZQC is based on the principle that defects are prevented by controlling the performance of a process so that it can not produce defects, even when a mistake is made by the operator. This book introduces front line workers to the basic methodology of ZQC.

Addressing those who track and improve the effectiveness of equipment, this text defines basic concepts and then provides a systematic explanation of how OEE should be applied to maximize a piece of equipment's productivity and recognize when its efficiency is being compromised.

A brief but complete introduction to TPM offering an easy-to-follow overview of the basic TPM features and implementation.

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 focuses on explaining the TPM activities carried out by equipment operators themselves; autonomous maintenance, focused improvement, and safety initiatives.

This resource introduces production teams and managers to basic pull production concepts, enabling them to begin understanding, planning, and implementing this lean tool.

This book provides operators, supervisors, team leaders, and TPM co-ordinators with useful guidance for autonomous maintenance.