In high diversity, Just In Time production environments, mixed-model assembly lines aim at producing a large amount of end products that use alternative variants of components used in the assembly process. Therefore, the availability of parts required at the border of the assembly line is...

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...