continuous improvement, setup/cycle time reduction, kanban, kaizen and just in time also appearing.
First on the list, with apologies to David Letterman, is “The
Top Ten Secrets of Lean Success: How to Make Your Imple- mentation Work” (paper TP09PUB115) by David R. Dixon of Technical Change Associates (Ogden, UT). The paper was presented at FABTECH in 2009 and has been downloaded 177 times in its English version. Due to its popularity, the paper was translated into French in 2012 (TP12PUB3). The author summarizes experiences over many years of launching lean initiatives with clients.
In another top-accessed paper, David Csokasy (DJC Group; Franklin, OH) and Paul Parent (ProSol LLC; Winsted, CT) answer their own question of the differences between managing in a traditional manufacturing environment as opposed to “Managing Lean Manufacturing” (TP07PUB2). Although the paper focuses on identifying and developing lean management techniques, Csokasy and Parent emphasize that
the content is just as applicable to manufacturing organiza- tions that operate more traditionally.
More on how to lead an organization through change is the topic of Kathy Miller and Shari Lewchanin’s 2006 paper. They list several common faulty assumptions of leaders and con- sultants, including assuming that a leader is ready to change and lead with logic, believing change will be simple, presum- ing that people who are ambivalent to change will resist it and thinking that leading change can be delegated. In “Leading Change: What a Surprise” (TP06PUB149), minimizing the surprise factor amounts to this: Successful leaders of change do more than merely announce the new direction and then leave the dirty work to others.
A model for companies determining “Critical Training Requirements for Lean Manufacturing” (TP07PUB15) was developed by S. Arunachalam, M. Ichimura, and T. Page based on surveys, interviews and company visits at several companies in the UK. Some of the important factors identified
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