Kaizen Assembly: Designing, Constructing, and Managing a Lean Assembly Line

Emphasizing manual assembly, Kaizen Assembly shows readers how to design, construct, and manage a world-class assembly process. The book covers time and motion studies, waste reduction, standard work, 5S, line balancing, quality at the source, and workstation and assembly line design. Using an electric bike as the product, the author designs and constructs an actual assembly line within the text, allowing readers to better understand the process. The book presents testing, inspecting, and packaging workstations, along with a ten workstation main assembly line, one subassembly feeder line, and a subassembly work cell. It contains figures and illustrations, including workstation-specific pictures of the bike as it is built.