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Lean Assembly: The Nuts and Bolts of Making Assembly Operations Flow

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• Characterizing the demand in terms of volume by product and product family, component consumption, seasonal variability and life cycle.
• Matching the physical structure of the shop floor to the demand with the goal of approaching takt-driven production as closely as possible.
• Working 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.
• Incorporating mistake-proofing, successive inspection, and test operations for quality assurance.

  Lean Assembly differs from most other books on lean manufacturing in that it focuses on technical content as a driver for implementation methods. The emphasis ison exactly what should be done. This book should be the "dog-eared" and "penciled-in" resource on every assembly engineer's desk.
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  Clear examples of lean applications 2006-11-13
  Before reading this book I would recommend reading something to help you understand the lean philosophy (Lean Thinking or the Toyota Way for example). Once the philosophy is understood, this book will give you good examples on how to apply some of the ideas and tools from Lean into a real world situation and will help you get your imagination going on how to apply it to your specific situation. The book covers a broad range of industries, from small high volume assemblies to aircraft assembly.
  
  
  
  Valuable Information 2006-07-03
  Very good book. Full of details. Usefull for implementers. Knowledgeable readers can find many info between the lines. A wonderfull contribution for Kaizen and Lean knowledge.
  
  
  Great book for hands-on implementation 2005-09-11
  This is a book filled with great details on lean-assembly implementation. Ideal for manufacturing managers or industrial engineers.
  
  
  Very detailed guide to Lean Assembly 2005-03-24
  Michel Baudin is a very credible and experienced lean consultant. This book is a very detailed and precise guide for setting up lean assembly lines, with topics covered ranging from line layout and setting, labor staffing, and materials/part presentation. I use this guidebook very often when working in a factory going through lean transformation efforts. In this book, you get very specific ideas and approaches, not high-level lean generalizations. Highly recommended and I look forward to the next book, "Lean Logistics."
  
  
  Lean Assembly For Supplier Development 2005-01-29
  Lean Assembly has been a great reference book for our supplier development team. With the content scope maintained within assembly and testing, supplier improvement project team members often refer to the chapters pertaining to the issues at hand for proven lean direction and practical examples. The highly technical content is clearly communicated through a good mix of text, charts, illustrations and pictures from a diverse group of industries. Because of Mr. Baudin's undoubted experience in and knowledge of lean manufacturing, I look forward to similar publications by him to add to our toolbox.