chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 There Is No Panacea! -- chapter 3 Training Day -- chapter 4 Sharing Black Books -- chapter 5 Tachinbo -- chapter 6 Prioritizing and Executing Actions -- chapter 7 Updating Standardized Work Forms and Expanding -- chapter 8 Focused Tachinbo: Workstation...

chapter 1 - Introduction -- chapter 2 - Training Day -- chapter 3 - “We Already Have Standards!” -- chapter 4 - On Which Tasks Can Standardized Work Forms Be Written? -- chapter 5 - Collecting Data -- chapter 6 - Introducing the Four Standardized Work Documents -- chapter 7 - Getting Ready...

chapter 1 - Introduction -- chapter 2 - A Strange Day in a New Plant: The “Beheaded Chicken” -- chapter 3 - Variability Is the Enemy of Production -- chapter 4 - Training Day One: Introducing Standardized Work -- chapter 5 - The Hidden Cost of Human Variability -- chapter 6 - How to Measure...

Purpose – The technology of time temperature integrators (TTI) is used to ensure the safety and quality of temperature sensitive goods such as food and drugs along their entire lifespan. This work aims to provide a better understanding of potential benefits that can be expected from the use of...

This paper investigates the impact of product perishability on the known (r,Q) inventory review policy and the benefits of using Time Temperature integrator technology (TTI) on inventory management. We first formulate an (r,Q) inventory model for perishables having a fixed lifetime. Then, we...

This paper examines a Newsvendor framework in which a wholesaler who sells products to retailers is subject to inaccuracies in inventory data. The wholesaler's decision regarding the management of his warehouse inventory is based on inventory data recorded in the information system. We assume...