The Lean 3p Advantage: A Practitioner's Guide to the Production Preparation Process

How do you take talented engineers and surround them with the elements needed to create brilliant designs...
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Author: Allan R. Coletta
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The Lean 3p Advantage: A Practitioner's Guide to the Production Preparation Process by Coletta, Allan R.

The Lean 3p Advantage: A Practitioner's Guide to the Production Preparation Process

$920.42

The Lean 3p Advantage: A Practitioner's Guide to the Production Preparation Process

$920.42
Author: Allan R. Coletta
Format: Paperback
Language: English

How do you take talented engineers and surround them with the elements needed to create brilliant designs that lead to market-changing products? Lean 3P is how.

Winner of a 2013 Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award !Written from an operations perspective, The Lean 3P Advantage: A Practitioner's Guide to the Production Preparation Process explains how to build collaborative thinking and innovation into the front end of the design process. Describing how to develop successful new products concurrently with new operations, the book illustrates real-world scenarios with numerous examples and case studies to help newcomers succeed the first time around. For those familiar with 3P, the book supplies the basis to explore Evergreen 3P--a process for applying 3P to small-scale design projects for similar benefits.
  • Details the 3P Lean Design process, explaining how and why it works so effectively
  • Includes case studies and examples of real-world applications
  • Presents time-tested methods based on the combined experience of numerous practicing companies

Coverage includes product planning and evaluation criteria, selection of alternatives, timing considerations, construction of prototypes, and measuring effectiveness. This book will help you and your team develop holistic designs that foster innovation and deliver products and production operations that effectively utilize people and exceed the expectations of all stakeholders.



Author: Allan R. Coletta
Publisher: Productivity Press
Published: 03/23/2012
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 9.90h x 6.90w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781439879115

About the Author

Allan R. Coletta is a chemical engineer with extensive manufacturing operations, supply chain, and engineering experience gained while working in the chemical process and health-care diagnostics industries. His Lean experience started while serving as site manager for ICI Uniqema's largest specialty chemicals plant in North America and continued to expand his role as Senior Director of Engineering for Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics. His passion for manufacturing and engaging people in continuous improvement continues to grow through personal application of Lean principles.

Allan serves on the Delaware Manufacturing Extension Partnership's Fiduciary and Advisory Boards and is a member of the Delaware Business Mentoring Alliance. He is also a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME).




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