Made-to-Order Lean: Excelling in a High-Mix, Low-Volume Environment

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Made-to-Order Lean: Excelling in a High-Mix, Low-Volume Environment
by Greg Lane
from Productivity Press

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Low Volume MFG
  This book could have been better for me, but overall I liked it and found it useful. I work for a low volume Hi-mix company coming from a a hi-mix, hi-volume background. I found the traditional approaches were not going to work. Groping in the dark and some trial and error, I was coming to myown conclusions, when I found this book.
  It is not a complete compendium of all lean tools. It refers you out to Duggan's Book (Mixed Models) and others for deeper dives into particular tools.
  What is does do... more info

• Not High Mix, Low Volume, but Good
  While this book claims to disseminate high mix, low volume production, it leaves the meat to Kevin Duggan's book "Creating Mixed Model Value Streams". Duggan's book is quite good, so the reference is appropriate.
  The book has some great visual management examples that are useful, but the planning and execution of high mix, low volume or even high mix, high volume is missing.

• Must read for the lean practitioner in high-mix, low-volume environments
  Made-To-Order Lean provides the lean practitioner excellent guidance and instructions for applying the powerful concepts and methodologies of lean thinking to the most difficult of production environments, the job shop. As such, this book takes a major step forward in extending the reaches of lean thinking to high-mix, low-volume operations. It addresses the lean practitioner, someone who already has a basic understanding of lean principles and tools, and illuminates the ideas, tools, and principles that... more info

• Very practical and gave me many new ideas
  This book is very practical and hands on. It shows a very practical roadmap for implementing lean when you have high variety and low volume. I found it easy to read and liked the actual examples and came away with many new ideas to go forward with in the job shop which I work. It is great to finally see a book that deals with lean outside high volume with actual methods and examples and even helps in the office and accounting areas.
  Sammuel Mason
  

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