Author: Dan Jones, Jim Womack, John Shook, Mike Rother ISBN: 0966784308 / 9780966784305 Year: 2002 Availability: Out of Stock
The Lean Enterprise Institute is a non-profit education and research organization founded in 1997 to promote the principles of lean thinking in every aspect of business and across a wide range of ma...
Author: Daniel T. Jones, James P. Womack ISBN: 1934109320 / 9781934109328 Year: 2011 Availability: Out of Stock
An expanded 2nd edition of the workbook Seeing the Whole
In response to feedback asking for examples in other sectors and questions about how to understand supply chain costs more accurately, fiv...
Author: Gary Griffiths, Pauline Found, Peter Hines, Richard Harrison ISBN: 143982617X / 9781439826171 Year: 2011 Availability: In Stock
The first edition of this highly acclaimed publication received a Shingo Research and Professional Publication Prize in 2009. Explaining how to create and sustain a Lean business, it followed Cogent...
Author: Drew Locher ISBN: 1498771947 / 9781498771948 Year: 2016 Availability: In Stock
Demystifying the application of Lean methods, Lean Office and Service Simplified : The Definitive How-To Guide goes beyond the basic tools to detail the key concepts of Lean as they apply to office ...
Author: Michael A Orzen, Steven C Bell ISBN: 1439817561 / 9781439817568 Year: 2015 Availability: In Stock
Information Technology is supposed to enable business performance and innovation, improve service levels, manage change, and maintain quality and stability, all while steadily reducing operating cos...
Author: John Stewart ISBN: 1439846049 / 9781439846049 Year: 2012 Availability: In Stock
Written by a recognized leader in the manufacturing industry with nearly two decades of experience working for Toyota, this book supplies a firsthand account of the realities behind implementing the...
Author: Tim Turner ISBN: 143986067X / 9781439860670 Year: 2011 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Written by actual Toyota team members, One Team on All Levels : Stories from Toyota Team Members, Second Edition is not another technical explanation of the Toyota Production System (TPS). Rather, i...
Author: David Rogers ISBN: 1439851026 / 9781439851029 Year: 2011 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks.
Of the 100 companies named to Fortune magazine’s list of the world’s largest companies in 1956, only 29 of those companies remain on that list today. Many lost their way be...
Author: Dennis Averill ISBN: 1439857164 / 9781439857168 Year: 2011 Availability: In Stock
The Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance defines safety as the maintenance of peace of mind. Without peace of mind, or the serenity brought about by a safe working environment, employees will be unw...
Author: Chris Harris, Earl Wilson, Jim Womack, Rick Harris ISBN: 0974182494 / 9780974182490 Year: 2003 Availability: Out of Stock
Making Materials Flow describes in plain language another step in implementing a complete lean business system.
LEI's first workbook, Learning to See, focused on where to start — at t...
Author: Mike Rother, Rick Harris ISBN: 0966784332 / 9780966784336 Year: 2001 Availability: Out of Stock
This workbook explains in simple, step-by-step terms how to introduce and sustain lean flows of material and information in pacemaker cells and lines, a prerequisite for achieving a lean value strea...
Author: Kevin von Grabe, Robert O. Martichenko ISBN: 1934109193 / 9781934109199 Year: 2010 Availability: Out of Stock
Building a Lean Fulfillment Stream will change the way you think about your supply chain and logistics networks. Even better — it gives you a way to act using lean principles to transform and ...
Author: Gary L. Convis, Jeffrey K. Liker ISBN: 1259005402 / 9781259005404 Year: 2012 Availability: Out of Stock
TOYOTA. The name signifies greatness? world-class cars and game-changing business thinking. One key to the Toyota Motor Company?s unprecedented success is its famous production system and its lesser...
Author: Charles Protzman, George Mayzell, Joyce Kerpchar ISBN: 143981385X / 9781439813850 Year: 2011 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
This practical guide for healthcare executives, managers, and frontline workers, provides the means to transform your enterprise into a High-Quality Patient Care Business Delivery System. Designed f...
Author: Chris A. Ortiz ISBN: 143987879X / 9781439878798 Year: 2012 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
The inherent fear and reluctance of many companies to embark on a Lean journey can be self-destructive. This book explores the psychology behind why so many companies avoid Lean and hold on to ineff...
Author: Allan R. Coletta ISBN: 1439879117 / 9781439879115 Year: 2012 Availability: Out of Stock
How do you take talented engineers and surround them with the elements needed to create brilliant designs that lead to market-changing products? Lean 3P is how.
Written from an operations perspec...
Author: Jim Bowie ISBN: 0873898095 / 9780873898096 Year: 2011 Availability: Out of Stock
Change can be hard. It is often difficult to conceive performing tasks in a different order, in a different place, at a different time, or in a different manner altogether. And this is only for the ...
Author: Luis Alarcon ISBN: 9054106484 / 9789054106487 Year: 1997 Availability: 45-60 days
The application of a new production philosophy, leading to "lean production" (using less space, less human effort, less product development time etc), is expected to change almost every industry and...
Author: Gary Santorella ISBN: 143983508X / 9781439835081 Year: 2011 Availability: In Stock
Given that the greatest risk factor on any project is manpower costs, problems resulting in delays, rework, or overtime will lower profits through increased labor costs. Most of these process-genera...
Author: Hundley M. Elliotte, Mark Price, Walter Mores ISBN: 0071765719 / 9780071765718 Year: 2011 Availability: Out of Stock
Praise for Building High Performance Government
“Building High Performance Government is a fast read with a big message. It explains how the inevitable downsizing of governments at all leve...
Author: James W. Martin ISBN: 0071793054 / 9780071793056 Year: 2014 Availability: In Stock
A Proven 10-Step Solution Process to Identify and Solve Supply Chain Problems Using the Latest Lean Methods
Fully revised to cover recent dramatic developments in supply chain improvement methodo...
Author: Anwar El-Homsi, Hubert K. Rampersad ISBN: 8189265032 / 9788189265038 Year: 2008 Availability: In Stock
This new book emphasizes the introduction of a new blueprint, called TPS-Lean Six Sigma, for addressing the primary concerns of manufacturing and service in a more sustainable and humanized way. It ...
Author: Freddy Balle, Michael Balle ISBN: 1934109258 / 9781934109250 Year: 2009 Availability: Out of Stock
The Lean Manager: A Novel of Lean Transformation reveals how individuals can go beyond the short-term gains from tools, and realize a deeper, sustainable path of improvement. Full of human moments t...