Sustaining a Culture of Process Control and Continuous Improvement: The Roadmap for Efficiency and Operational Excellence

This book provides a methodology for continuous process improvement in a structured, logical, and easily understandable framework based on industry-accepted tools, techniques, and practices. It focuses on establishing a stable and capable process, maintaining process control, and eliminating waste while improving process flow. It also explores the principles, practices, systems, and behaviors required to maintain process control and create a mindset of continuous incremental improvement.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 428 pages
Publication date: 15 May 2018
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive book presents a methodology for continuous process improvement in a structured, logical, and easily understandable framework based on industry-accepted tools, techniques, and practices. It begins by explaining the conditions necessary for establishing a stable and capable process and the actions required to maintain process control, while setting the stage for sustainable efficiency improvements driven by waste elimination and process flow enhancement. This structured approach makes a clear connection between the need for a quality process to serve as the foundation for incremental efficiency improvements. This book moves beyond talking about the value contribution of tools and techniques for process control and continuous improvement by focusing on the daily work routines necessary to maintain and sustain these activities as part of a lean process and management mindset. Part 1 discusses process quality improvement with an understanding of variation and its impact on process performance. It continues by stressing the importance of standardizing a process to achieve process stability. Once process stability is reflected in a consistent and predictable output, attention is turned to ensuring the process is capable of consistently meeting customer requirements. This series of activities sets the foundation for process control and the sustainable pursuit of efficiency improvements. Part 2 focuses on efficiency improvement by eliminating waste while improving process flow using proven tools and methods. Although there is a clear relationship between waste elimination and process flow, these activities are discussed separately to allow those more interested in waste elimination to work independently from those looking to optimize value stream f.

Weight: 752g
Dimension: 255 x 183 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781138297333