| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
1: What is Lean?; 1.1 What is Lean?; 1.1.1 The Lean History; 1.1.2 Lean: Less of Everything -- 2: This is How Lean Can be Used in Agriculture; 2.1 This is How Lean Can be Used in Agriculture; 2.1.1 An Additional Gear; 2.1.2 What is "Value for the Customer" at Your Farm?; 2.1.3 An Eye-opener for Waste in Production; 2.1.4 More Money to Make with Lean; 2.1.5 Lean Provides Motivation and Commitment -- 3: The Five Lean Principles; 3.1 Identify Value; 3.2 Map the Value Stream; 3.3 Create Flow; 3.4 Establish Pull; 3.5 Continuous Improvement -- 4: The Eight Wastes of Lean; 4.1 The Eight Wastes of Lean; 4.1.1 Learn to See; 4.1.2 Examples of Waste -- 5: Involve Your Employees; 5.1 Involve Your Employees; 5.1.1 Traditional, Modern Management and Lean Management; 5.1.2 Motivation Requires Trust and Respect; 5.1.3 Appreciative Leadership; 5.1.4 Change Management; 5.1.5 Communication and Questioning Technique; 5.1.6 Use of Questions in Lean Work; 5.1.7 Talking Stick; 5.1.8 Catchball; 5.1.9 Communication with Sticky Notes; 5.1.10 Five Whys -- 6: That is How You Work with Goals; 6.1 That is How You Work with Goals; 6.1.1 The Burning Platform; 6.1.2 What Is a Burning Platform?; 6.2 What Is a Good Goal?; 6.2.1 Involve Your Employees; 6.3 Breaking Down of Goals; 6.3.1 Performance Goals and Effort Goals; 6.4 Goal Management; 6.4.1 Visible Goal Management; 6.4.2 Action Plans; 6.4.3 Examples of Content in Action Plans; 6.4.4 Visible Action Plans -- 7: Tools; 7.1 Tools; 7.1.1 WeekPlanner; 7.1.2 Board Meeting at the Improvement Board: Kaizen; 7.1.3 PDCA; 7.1.4 Value Stream Mapping; 7.1.5 Standardization; 7.1.6 5S; 7.1.7 KANBAN; 7.1.8 TPM; 7.1.9 SMED -- 8: How to Implement Lean at Your Farm; 8.1 How to Implement Lean at Your Farm; 8.1.1 The Current State of Your Farm; 8.1.2 Leanstart With Simple Tools; 8.1.3 Expect a Trough; 8.1.4 Plan for the Implementation of Lean -- 9: Examples of Lean; 9.1 Results with Lean; 9.1.1 The Production Strategy is Lean; 9.1.2 Impressive Decrease in Costs at Esbjerg Dairy; 9.1.3 Lean: Just Common Sense |
| Summary |
Responding to a recent surge in interest, this is the first book to comprehensively address how Lean thinking and tools can be implemented in agriculture. This handbook breaks down barriers, clearly showing how techniques originally developed for use in factories work just as well on farms. Expert Lean farming consultants Susanne Pejstrup and Vibeke Fladkjaer Nielsen present these methods in a clear, easy-to-read style, accessible to farmers the world over. Case studies from multiple farm types - including crops, pigs and dairy cattle - demonstrate how respect for people, continuous improvement and visual management techniques can improve resilience and profitability on the farm. Richly illustrated, Lean in Agriculture appeals not only to farmers, but to farm workers, food processing companies, veterinarians, consultants and other stakeholders in the agribusiness sector |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Susanne Pejstrup, Agricultural Science, Cand. Agro. (The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University Denmark), is the founder and owner of Lean Farmingª. Susanne and Lean Farming ª have two main fields of work: 1. leadership and Lean production on farms and 2. logistics and design of production facilities in farm projects. The company has customers and projects in Europe, the US and occasionally in Africa and Asia. The customers get higher productivity by using Lean Farming, specifically while working with animal welfare, rational working procedures and motivation of the staff. Vibeke Fladkjaer Nielsen, Agricultural Science, Cand. Agro. (The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University Denmark), is a consultant at Seges, Department for Innovation and Development. Vibeke works in the areas of management and optimization of the production plant. In the management area, Vibeke works in particular with Lean, which she has been in charge of implementing in Danish agriculture. Vibeke is also highly skilled in change management |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 01, 2018) |
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Farm management.
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Agriculture -- Economic aspects.
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Sustainable agriculture.
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Agriculture -- Waste minimization
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Lean manufacturing.
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sustainable agriculture (discipline)
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Agribusiness.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Production & Operations Management.
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Farm management
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Agriculture -- Economic aspects
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Lean manufacturing
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Sustainable agriculture
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pejstrup, Susanne, author
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| ISBN |
9780429847431 |
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0429847432 |
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9780429847424 |
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0429847424 |
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9780429455001 |
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0429455003 |
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9780429847417 |
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0429847416 |
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