Indicative contents

Introduction to Management of Lean Organizations

• Market Demands (20%)
• The Strategic Links between Marketing and Manufacturing, Product Life Cycles, Mass Customisation and Alliances in manufacturing.
• Lean Principles (20%)
• Value, Value Streams, Flows, Pull and Perfection.
• Opposing views of Manufacturing Excellence (10%)
• The Kalmar – Udvella experience, the German Diversifield Quality methodology, Modular Consortium Model in Brazil and the Flexible Specialisation Model.
• Activity Based Costing (10%)
• Reviewing Scientific Management (10%)
• The contributions made by Frederick Taylor and Henry Gantt.
• Empowerment (10%)
• The six principles, Training, Shared visions, Values for cultural change, Reward systems, Trust, Support.
• The Cultural Aspects (10%)
• Division of Labour, Job Roles, Alienation, the impact of technology.
• Industrial Engineering in Japanese Manufacturing (10%)
• Industrial Engineering techniques, the NUMMI experience, the role of the team.
   

Recommended reading

• Essential Reading - Books
  1. Course Notes
• Recommended Reading
  1. D Pugh, Penguin , Organisation Theory, edited 1997(4th Edition I/S x 6)
  2. Toyota Management System (Linking the Seven Key Functional Areas), Monden Y, Productivity Press 1993 I/S x 6
  3. Womack J and Jones D, Lean Thinking, Touchstone 1997 I/S x 8
  4. Gunneson A, Transitioning to Agility, Addison and Wesley 1997 I/S x 1
  5. Shingo S, Non Stock Production, Productivity Press, 1988 I/S x 3
  6. Maynard M, John Wiley, The Global Manufacturing Vanguard, 1998 I/S x Das Kapital, Marx K, Penguin, 1995 (Not in Stock)