Bookcover of Supporting production system development through Obeya concept
Booktitle:
Supporting production system development through Obeya concept
An exploratory multiple case study
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
(2015-05-05
)
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ISBN-13:
978-3-659-70647-9
ISBN-10:
3659706477
EAN:
9783659706479
Book language:
English
Blurb/Shorttext:
The manufacturing industry, as an important part of the European and Swedish economies, faces many challenges with growing global competition. One of the challenges is transformations from a cost-based to a value-based focus. To do so, manufacturing companies need to improve their production and processes; these improvements can be incremental (Kaizen) and radical (Kaikaku). This manuscript was written in 2012, studying Obeya concept as a supporting tool for production system development for incremental and radical changes. Obeya concept origins from Toyota Production System, implies a big meeting space to help development projects by facilitating visualization of data, communication and involvement of for a project team. Four lean manufacturing companies in Sweden have been studied and results show a great opportunity in Obeya’s application to improvement innovative production development projects.