In the revised and updated edition of Lean Thinking : Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation, authors James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones provide a thoughtful expansion upon their value-based business system based on the Toyota model. Along the way they update their action plan in light of new research and the increasing globalization of manufacturing, and they revisit some of their key case studies (most of which still derive, however, from the automotive, aerospace, and other manufacturing industries).
The core of the lean model remains the same in the new edition. All businesses must define the "value" that they produce as the product that best suits customer needs. The leaders must then identify and clarify the "value stream," the nexus of actions to bring the product through problems solving, information management, and physical transformation tasks. Next, "lean enterprise" lines up suppliers with this value stream. "Flow" traces the product across departments. "Pull" then activates the flow as the business re-orients towards the pull of the customer's needs. Finally, with the company reengineered towards its core value in a flow process, the business re-orients towards "perfection," rooting out all the remaining muda (Japanese for "waste") in the system.
Preface to the 2003 Edition
Preface to the First Edition: From Lean Production to Lean Enterprise
PART 1 : LEAN PRINCIPLES
Introduction: Lean Thinking versus Muda
Chapter 1 : Value
Chapter 2 : The Value Stream
Chapter 3 : Flow
Chapter 4 : Pull
Chapter 5 : Perfection
PART 2 : FROM THINKING TO ACTION: THE LEAN LEAP
Chapter 6 : The Simple Case
Chapter 7 : A Harder Case
Chapter 8 : The Acid Test
Chapter 9 : Lean Thinking versus German
Chapter 10 : Mighty Toyota: Tiny Showa
Chapter 11 : An Action Plan
PART 3 : LEAN ENTERPRISE
Chapter 12 : A Channel for the Stream: a Valley for the Channel
Chapter 13 : Dreaming About Perfection
PART 4 : EPILOGUE
Chapter 14 : The Steady Advance of Lean Thinking
Chapter 15 : Instiutionalizing the Revolution
Afterword: The Lean Network
Appendix: Individuals and Organizations Who Helped
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
