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Explaining Lean Manufacturing To Your Organization With Captain Hytrol

This is a great resource to help any level of employee understand what's required to maximize your company's manufacturing/distributing processes.

This book delivers logical explanations to:

• What is lean manufacturing
• Where are lean principles applied
• The difference between value-added activities and non-value-added activities
• Why a value stream is important to your customer
• What are the benefits to a one-piece flow
• How production is measured
• What the heck is KANBAN
• How to identify waste in time, material, effort and inventory
• What steps we will be taking to implement these principles
• How we constantly monitor our continuous improvement and success

Hytrol presents a fresh, innovative look at Lean Manufacturing. Written in comic book form, these 56 pages present lean concepts clearly yet thoroughly. Delightful illustrations coupled with valuable information make this a must-have no matter where your company is in its lean journey. Now's your chance to get everyone on board and explain how "going lean" can help your company.

How The Book Helped Us

This professionally illustrated book was created to help our entire organization understand the truly remarkable journey of lean manufacturing. It is not an implementation guide. It is a companion to your lean champions who steer the change.

We are part of a large manufacturer of industrial equipment. As we began implementing the lean concepts in our facility, we found that many people did not fully comprehend the changes taking place. We also found that those who do not understand are not supportive of the concepts. We tried hard to keep everyone informed but we found that the information campaign was a journey in itself. As people change, as processes change and as time passes, the entire staff needs reminders and reinforcement regarding this undertaking.

Eureka! We hit a home run. Our internal staff spent time with all the leaders of the business and the lean initiative to determine what the key attributes are for understanding lean. Our goal was not to teach people how to implement lean but to make people aware of what and why things were happening and how they effected our operation and ultimately our end user customers.

This 56 page booklet was illustrated by our master illustrator who has been involved with industrial manufacturing for more than 25 years. Thus, there is nothing lost in the translation from author to illustrator. He knows how to get it right. And he did.

How do we know? Everyone who has read the book tells us so.

• Our board members didn't have time to go through weeks of detailed training.
• Even the best employees can only absorb so much at one time.
• Our outside consultant could not believe how effective this was.

Now, every employee, vendor partner and business associate is offered this book so they can embrace the change taking place. We want everyone on board with our mission and we made great progress in making sure that everyone was clear where we are going and why.

Join Captain Hytrol with his friends Power Lean and Safety Lady as they learn the ins and outs of Lean Manufacturing.

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