Grow Your Factory – Grow Your Profits: Lean for Small and Medium-Sized Manufacturing Enterprises by Tim McLean has been released.
The book explores how businesses can grow and increase their profits by adopting Lean manufacturing as a tool for continuous improvement in the work place.
“My start point was in Grow Your Factory – Grow Your Profits was to ask. What are the problems faced by growing manufacturers and how can Lean overcome these problems? The book therefore goes through the typical steps that an SME needs to follow in order to develop a Lean production system and overcome the barriers to growth that it faces,” McLean said. The book includes many case study examples, all from Australian SMEs that the TXM team has worked with.
Utilising Lean techniques helped Tasmanian beverage manufacturer, Juicy Isle to improve product flow, productivity and safety, enabling them to grow their businesses more effectively.
“TXM showed us how 5S can be incorporated into our business functions to make our production facility a lot simpler to run,” said Michael Goward, General Manager of Juicy Isle. “With tools such as visual cues, kanbans and others, we have been able to have a designated place for everything and everything in its place. Work instructions, test results and efficiency measures are all in place to make the operations run smoothly.”