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Like all Shopfloor Series books, Identifying Waste on the Shopfloorpresents concepts and tools in simple and accessible language. The book includes many illustrations and examples to explain basic concepts and some of the challenges that are encountered when looking for and eliminating waste.Identifying Waste on the Shopfloor is the ideal compliment to 5S, TPM, and other tools for building a lean manufacturing operation. Productivity's Shopfloor Series books offer a simple, cost-effective approach for building basic knowledge about key manufacturing improvement topics. Identifying Waste on the Shopfloor and all our Shopfloor Series books include innovative instructional features that are the signature of the series. The goal: to place powerful and proven improvement tools in the hands of your entire workforce.

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

Solve safety problems before they happen with 5S for Safety, a unique preventative safety program that identifies and addresses dangerous workplace conditions. Even manufacturers with world-renowned safety programs have still found hidden safety hazards using this approach. This package gives you all of the information and tools you need to implement 5S for Safety in your facility. Including a Facilitator’s Guide, seven Participant Guides, and a CD with PDF Files of Forms and Worksheets, Checklists, Charts, and One-Point Lessons, this all-inclusive toolkit enables you to incorporate and implement 5S for Safety into your company’s existing safety training program.From the very beginning 5S for Safety walks you through forming teams and launching the program. You will practice using specific auditing tools such as the “Safety Scan” to identify safety problems and their root causes. You will learn how to use dynamic visual tools such as benchmarking, visual feedback photography, visual controls, red tagging, and area mapping and understand the appropriate situation for each. Using your new knowledge, 5S of Safety teaches you to select "best practices" for fixing, controlling, and preventing the safety problems specific to your company.