Lean/Six Sigma Processes

Readings

LEC #	TOPICS	READINGS
1	Welcome and Overview Lean Thinking	Murman, Earll, Tom Allen, Kirkor Bozdogan, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Hugh McManus, Debbie Nightingale, Eric Rebentisch, Tom Shields, Fred Stahl Myles Walton, Joyce Warmkessel, Stanley Weiss, and Sheila Widnall. “Lean Thinking.” Chapter 4 in Lean Enterprise Value: Insights from the MIT Lean Aerospace Initiative. New York: Palgrave/MacMillan, 2002.
2	Six Sigma Principles Systems Change Principles	Dennis, Pascal. “The Birth of Lean Production,” and “The Lean Production System.” Chapters 1 and 2 in Lean Production Simplified: A Plain Language Guide to the World’s Most Powerful Production System. New York: Productivity Press, 2002. Breyfogle, Forrest W, III. “Six Sigma Overview and S4/IEE Implementation.” Chapter 1 in Implementing Six Sigma: Smarter Solutions Using Statistical Methods. 2nd ed. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2003. Wheeler, Donald. “The Purpose of Analysis is Insight.” Chapter 3 in Understanding Variation: The Key to Managing Chaos. Knoxville, TN: SPC Press, 1993.
3	“Pre-Stability” Considerations	Womack, James, Daniel Jones, and Daniel Roos. “Running the Factory.” Chapter 4 in The Machine That Changed the World. New York: Harper, 1990.
4	Team-Based, Knowledge-Driven Work Systems	Spear, Steven, and H. Kent Bowen. “Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System.” Harvard Business Review, (September-October 1999). Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Joel, Michio Nitta, Betty Barrett, Nejib Belhedi, Cheryl Coutchie, Takashi Inaba, Iwao Ishino, Seepa Lee, Wen-Jeng Lin, William Mothersell, Jennifer Mulder, Stacia Rabine, Shobha Ramanand, and Arthur Wheaton. “Japanese Team-Based Work Systems in the United States: Explaining the Diversity.” California Management Review 37, no. 1 (Fall, 1994). Socio-Tech Implementation Simulation and Readings.
5	Manufacturing Stakeholder Alignment	Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Joel, Michio Nitta, Betty Barrett, Nejib Belhedi, Simon Chow, Takashi Inaba, Iwao Ishino, Wen-Jeng Lin, Michael Moore, William Mothersell, Jennifer Palthe, Shobha Ramanand, Mark Strolle, and Arthur Wheaton. “Labor Relations.” Chapter 8 in Knowledge-Driven Work: Lessons from Japanese and U.S. Work Practices. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Additional Readings on Lean Supply Chains.
6	In-Station Process Control and Standardized Work	Dennis, Pascal. “Standardized Work.” Chapter 4 in Lean Production Simplified: A Plain Language Guide to the World’s Most Powerful Production System. New York: Productivity Press, 2002. Thornton, Anna. “Introduction,” “Basics of Variation Risk Management,” and “Assessment of Frequencies and Contribution of Defects.” Chapters 1, 2, and 5 in Variation Risk Management: Focusing Quality Improvements in Product Development and Production. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2003.
7	Total Productive Maintenance and Standardized Support	Dennis, Pascal. “Stability.” Chapter 3 in Lean Production Simplified: A Plain Language Guide to the World’s Most Powerful Production System New York: Productivity Press, 2002. Goodson, R. Eugene. “Read a Plant Fast.” Harvard Business Review (May 2002).
8	Value Streams	Womack, James P., and Daniel T. Jones. “The Simple Case,” “The Harder Case,” and “The Acid Test.” Chapters 6, 7, and 8 in Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in your Corporation. New York: Simon And Schuster, 1996.
9	Material Flow	Dennis, Pascal. “Just-in-time,” and “Jidoka.” Chapters 5 and 6 in Lean Production Simplified: A Plain Language Guide to the World’s Most Powerful Production System. New York: Productivity Press, 2002.
10	Knowledge and Information Flow	Dennis, Pascal. “Involvement - The Wind that Fills the Sail,” and “Hoshin Planning.” Chapters 7 and 8 in Lean Production Simplified: A Plain Language Guide to the World’s Most Powerful Production System. New York: Productivity Press, 2002.
11	Customer “Pull” Systems Auto Industry	Pil, Frits, and Matthias Holweg. Selected chapters in The Second Century: Reconnecting Customer and Value Chain through Build-to-Order. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780262083324.
12	Aerospace Industry Customer Support Operations	Selected readings on “Sense and Respond”.
13	Transitions from “Pre-Stability” to Stability to Flow to Pull (#13), and Lean Enterprise Alignment Principles (#14)	Murman, Earll, Tom Allen, Kirkor Bozdogan, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Hugh McManus, Debbie Nightingale, Eric Rebentisch, Tom Shields, Fred Stahl Myles Walton, Joyce Warmkessel, Stanley Weiss, and Sheila Widnall. “Islands of Success,” and “Lean Enterprises.” Chapters 5 and 6 in Lean Enterprise Value: Insights from the MIT Lean Aerospace Initiative. New York: Palgrave/MacMillan, 2002. Rothenberg, Sandra, Fritz Pil, and James Maxwell. “Lean, Green and the Quest for Superior Performance.” Journal of Production and Operations Management 10, no. 3 (2001).
14	Ready, Set, Go	None
15	Lean Simulation	None