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News Release from: American Technical Publishers | Subject: Lean assembly guide
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 05 November 2002
Providing lean assembly's 'nuts and
bolts'
A guided tour of lean manufacturing techniques as applied to existing or newly designed assembly facilities is provided by a new book aimed at engineers and factory managers.
A new book from Productivity Press, Lean Assembly: The Nuts and Bolts of Making Assembly Operations Flow, provides readers with a guided tour of lean manufacturing techniques applied to existing or newly designed assembly facilities The book is unique in that it is not organized around a single concept such as standard work or 5S, but around the needs of assembly operations
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 15 Apr 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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The techniques described are intended to be used by the actual engineers and managers working in factories today.
The author, Michel Baudin, illustrates improvements with photographs and provides factory personnel engaged in lean initiatives with ideas, solutions, and analytical tools.
The reader will learn how to analyze and design assembly systems, while working out all of the details involved.
Lean Assembly is organized into four parts.
It begins by covering the engineering of assembly operations through characterizing the demand in terms of volume by product and product family, component consumption, seasonal variability, and life cycle.
It then matches the physical structure of the shop floor to the demand with the goal of approaching takt-driven production.
The book also works out the details of assembly tasks station by station, including station sizing, tooling, fixturing, operator instructions, part presentation, conveyance between stations and the geometry of assembly lines as a whole.
It concludes with information about mistake-proofing, successive inspection, and test operations for quality assurance.
Lean Assembly focuses on technical content as a driver of implementation methods.
The author places emphasis on exactly what should be done, and draws examples from aerospace, electronics, household appliances, personal products, and automotive industries.
Baudin is an experienced implementer of lean techniques having consulted for Honda of America, Dell Computer, Unilever, Boeing, Hewlett Packard, Intel, and National Semiconductor.
Lean Assembly: The Nuts and Bolts of Making Assembly Operations Flow is available from American Technical Publishers at
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