Lean in Agriculture : Create More Value with Less Work on the Farm

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 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