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The Product Wheel Handbook
Creating Balanced Flow in High-Mix Process Operations
The Product Wheel (PW) design process has practical methods for finding the optimum sequence, minimizing changeover costs, and freeing up useful capacity. So much so, that the DuPont™ Company and Exxon Mobil are just a few companies that have used the product wheel concept to achieve and sustain a...
Published April 25th 2013 by Productivity Press
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Lean for the Process Industries
Dealing with Complexity
Compared to its widespread implementation across almost all areas of production, Lean improvement efforts lag within the process industries. While, a number of innovators have successfully applied Lean principles to these industries over the last two decades, most of those pioneering efforts were...
Published May 25th 2009 by Productivity Press