Author: James Lewis ISBN: 0872638553 / 9780872638556 Year: 2008 Availability: Out of Stock
Readers of "Story of a Lean Journey" will empathize with the plight of Allison Manufacturing Services (AMS), a small manufacturer struggling to survive global competition and specialization to the p...
Author: Vincent Bozzone ISBN: 0814406947 / 9780814406946 Year: 2001 Availability: Out of Stock
Speed to Market delivers a proven approach for smaller suppliers who want to successfully cut their lead time and trigger profitable growth. Completely updated and expanded, the book explains how to...
Author: Chris Harris, Rick Harris ISBN: 1563273748 / 9781563273742 Year: 2008 Availability: In Stock
Achieve effective information flow through the extended value stream to the end customer
Dependable information flow is a necessary prerequisite to the successful implementation of lean production ...
Author: John Black and SME ISBN: 0831133511 / 9780831133511 Year: 2008 Availability: In Stock
The concept of lean production is not new, but the challenges of dramatic change management often stymie business leaders trying to put lean operations into place. This newly-revised and greatly exp...
Author: Drew A. Locher ISBN: 1563273721 / 9781563273728 Year: 2008 Availability: In Stock
Savvy business people know that time to market can mean the difference between being one more little fish or the big fish in a pond full of competitors. They also know that the best way to streamlin...
Author: John J. Casey ISBN: 1420083678 / 9781420083675 Year: 2009 Availability: In Stock
In recent years, the relentless pursuit of quality in manufacturing has led to a heightened ability to ferret out waste and quickly address areas of failure. However, global competition is requiring...
Author: Albert Boulanger, Arthur Kressner, John A. Johnson, Roger N. Anderson ISBN: 1593701578 / 9781593701574 Year: 2008 Availability: In Stock
In this new look at energy business operations, an expert team of scientists and engineers provide a road map for transforming energy business capabilities to meet growth imperatives in an increasin...
Author: Association for Manufacturing Excellence ISBN: 1420083791 / 9781420083798 Year: 2009 Availability: In Stock
Sustaining Lean: Case Studies in Transforming Culture, the third compilation of articles originally published in AME’s well-regarded Target Magazine, provides accounts of challenges encountere...
Author: Daniel Roos, Daniel T. Jones, James P. Womack ISBN: 1847370551 / 9781847370556 Year: 2007 Availability: Out of Stock
Toyota was half the size of General Motors. Today Toyota is passing GM as the world's largest auto maker and is the most consistently successful global enterprise of the past fifty years. This manag...
Author: Jerry Feingold ISBN: 0966290682 / 9780966290684 Year: 2005 Availability: Out of Stock
The book in the "Making Companies Globally Competitive Series", Getting Lean introduces lean business concepts and practices in a readable, comprehensive, and easy-to-follow format. Written in the fo...
Author: Brian J Carroll ISBN: 0849305322 / 9780849305320 Year: 2008 Availability: In Stock
Lean thinking is too often narrowly focused on physical processes, causing serious shortcomings, which limit Lean’s substantial benefits. Revised to consider the emerging global economy, Lean ...
Author: John Davis ISBN: 0831133856 / 9780831133856 Year: 2009 Availability: In Stock
Divided into three basic sections, this unique resource provides an understandable and implementable approach to inserting Lean in a manufacturing operation, pointing out the stumbling blocks and pi...
Author: James William Martin ISBN: 1420068792 / 9781420068795 Year: 2009 Availability: In Stock
Historically, the integration of manufacturing methodologies into the office environment has proven to be problematic. Part of the difficulty lies in the fact that process workflows tend to be globa...
Author: Roderick A. Munro ISBN: 0873897609 / 9780873897600 Year: 2009 Availability: Out of Stock
This book is for those in healthcare practices whose customers/payers may be encouraging or requiring them to use Lean Six Sigma in the workplace, or to simply improve the way healthcare is being pr...
Author: Peter L King ISBN: 0367023326 / 9780367023324 Year: 2019 Availability: Out of Stock
Compared to its widespread implementation across almost all areas of production, Lean improvement efforts lag within the process industries. While many innovators have successfully applied Lean prin...
Author: George Koenigsaecker ISBN: 0367480298 / 9780367480295 Year: 2022 Availability: In Stock
Updated with new information, illustrations, and leadership tools, Leading the Lean Enterprise Transformation, Second Edition describes how the metrics used by Toyota drive every line item in a fina...
Author: Mark Swets, Timothy Schipper ISBN: 1420092987 / 9781420092981 Year: 2009 Availability: In Stock
Authored by two experts in lean, this manual shows how the lean approach can be very effective with those businesses that are innovation-based in terms of product development. This text acts as a te...
Author: Robert Hafey ISBN: 1439816425 / 9781439816424 Year: 2010 Availability: In Stock
While worker safety is often touted as a company’s first priority, more often than not, safety activity is driven by compliance to legislation rather than any safety improvement initiative. Le...
Author: Raymond C. Floyd ISBN: 1420088629 / 9781420088625 Year: 2010 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
While Lean practices have been successfully implemented into the process industry with excellent results for over 20 years (including the author’s own award winning example at Exxon Chemical),...
Author: George Gonzalez-Rivas, Linus Larsson ISBN: 1420094564 / 9781420094565 Year: 2011 Availability: In Stock
If you currently employ knowledge workers who do most of their work on computers or with computers, access the Internet, utilize internal and external databases, use e-mail or other new messaging te...
Author: Elizabeth A. Cudney, Rodney Kestle ISBN: 1439828148 / 9781439828144 Year: 2011 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Explanations of theory, lists of rules, and discussions of procedure are the basis of learning the lean Six Sigma, however without a visceral understanding of the application of this powerful system...
Author: Cheryl M. Jekiel ISBN: 1138595381 / 9781138595385 Year: 2020 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Lean Human Resources addresses a critical issue facing organisations undertaking lean transformation or attempting to create a lean culture of continuous improvement. People are the single biggest f...
Author: Bert Teeuwen ISBN: 1439840229 / 9781439840221 Year: 2011 Availability: In Stock
Written specifically to address the application of Lean practices in government and the public sector, this highly original reference covers the basic philosophy of Lean before detailing specific me...
Author: Steve Hoeft ISBN: 1439816549 / 9781439816547 Year: 2010 Availability: Out of Stock
In the tradition of Taoist philosophers and Zen masters, Steve Hoeft tells the stories he learned from his Toyota Production System (TPS) master teachers. Sometimes enigmatic, sometimes funny, but a...
Author: John X. Wang ISBN: 1420086022 / 9781420086027 Year: 2011 Availability: In Stock
The delivery of real bottom-line results from manufacturing improvements has proven to be much harder than expected for most companies. TQM, Zero-Defect Manufacturing, and Business Process Re-engine...
