Lean in agriculture create more value with less work on the farm

Responding to a recent surge in interest, this is the first book to comprehensively address how Lean thinking and tools can be implemented in agriculture. This handbook breaks down barriers, clearly showing how techniques originally developed for use in factories work just as well on farms. Expert L...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fladkjær Nielsen, Vibeke, Pejstrup, Susanne (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Routledge/Productivity Press 2018
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Collection: O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • 5: Involve Your Employees; 5.1 Involve Your Employees; 5.1.1 Traditional, Modern Management and Lean Management; 5.1.2 Motivation Requires Trust and Respect; 5.1.3 Appreciative Leadership; 5.1.4 Change Management; 5.1.5 Communication and Questioning Technique; 5.1.6 Use of Questions in Lean Work; 5.1.7 Talking Stick; 5.1.8 Catchball; 5.1.9 Communication with Sticky Notes; 5.1.10 Five Whys
  • 6: That is How You Work with Goals; 6.1 That is How You Work with Goals; 6.1.1 The Burning Platform; 6.1.2 What Is a Burning Platform?; 6.2 What Is a Good Goal?; 6.2.1 Involve Your Employees; 6.3 Breaking Down of Goals; 6.3.1 Performance Goals and Effort Goals; 6.4 Goal Management; 6.4.1 Visible Goal Management; 6.4.2 Action Plans; 6.4.3 Examples of Content in Action Plans; 6.4.4 Visible Action Plans
  • 7: Tools; 7.1 Tools; 7.1.1 WeekPlanner; 7.1.2 Board Meeting at the Improvement Board: Kaizen; 7.1.3 PDCA; 7.1.4 Value Stream Mapping; 7.1.5 Standardization; 7.1.6 5S; 7.1.7 KANBAN; 7.1.8 TPM; 7.1.9 SMED
  • 8: How to Implement Lean at Your Farm; 8.1 How to Implement Lean at Your Farm; 8.1.1 The Current State of Your Farm; 8.1.2 Leanstart With Simple Tools; 8.1.3 Expect a Trough; 8.1.4 Plan for the Implementation of Lean
  • 9: Examples of Lean; 9.1 Results with Lean; 9.1.1 The Production Strategy is Lean; 9.1.2 Impressive Decrease in Costs at Esbjerg Dairy; 9.1.3 Lean: Just Common Sense
  • 1: What is Lean?; 1.1 What is Lean?; 1.1.1 The Lean History; 1.1.2 Lean: Less of Everything
  • 2: This is How Lean Can be Used in Agriculture; 2.1 This is How Lean Can be Used in Agriculture; 2.1.1 An Additional Gear; 2.1.2 What is "Value for the Customer" at Your Farm?; 2.1.3 An Eye-opener for Waste in Production; 2.1.4 More Money to Make with Lean; 2.1.5 Lean Provides Motivation and Commitment
  • 3: The Five Lean Principles; 3.1 Identify Value; 3.2 Map the Value Stream; 3.3 Create Flow; 3.4 Establish Pull; 3.5 Continuous Improvement
  • 4: The Eight Wastes of Lean; 4.1 The Eight Wastes of Lean; 4.1.1 Learn to See; 4.1.2 Examples of Waste