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Understanding A3 Thinking: A Critical Component of Toyota's PDCA Management System 5 reviews
Durward K. Sobek II., Art Smalley
Productivity Press, 2008
Excellent Summary of A3 Thinking
I finally got my copy of this book in the mail last week. I guess it is sold out and hard to obtain at any site. I'm glad to finally have mine. Given some of the comments above I'm guessing there was either a delay at the publishers or they simply did not anticipate all the demand. I did finally get mine however...
Regardless I am please to note that this book is an excellent summary of A3 ...
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Value Stream Management for the Lean Office 7 reviews
Don Tapping, Tom Shuker
Productivity Press, 2003
Move Lean into the Office
Value Stream Management for The Lean Office provide me a basic and thorough understanding on how the Toyota Production System can be applied in an office. The authors did a good job in breaking all the Lean tools down into administrative terms. I use this book for all our Lean office projects and would highly recommend anyone attempting to implement Lean in the office to read this.
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5S for Operators: 5 Pillars of the Visual Workplace (For Your Organization!)11 reviews
Productivity Press, 1996
Excellent book for implementing 5S
Very easy reading within a few hours. It covers all the 5S in a simple practical way with excellent examples. Shows a lot of pictures that help visualizing work area before and after 5S. I recommend strongly this book. Eleven plants in the comapny i work for are using it now.
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Practical Lean Accounting: A Proven System for Measuring and Managing the Lean Enterpise 10 reviews
Brian H. Maskell, Bruce Baggaley
Productivity Press, 2003
Who' Counting & Practical Lean Accounting: 1+1>2
"Who's Counting" and "Practical Lean Accounting" are two great books on lean accounting. I wondered some time ago, which one to read and I am glad that I could not decide, so I bought and read them both. They complement each other extremely well and each one conveys the lessons of lean accounting from a different angle.
"Practical Lean Accounting" is a well structured textbook, approaching ...
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The Basics of Process Mapping 13 reviews
Robert Damelio
Productivity Press, 1996
Very good for a book on process mapping
Let's face it--there really isn't very much to process mapping. I've searched for books on it, and none of them seem to be more than 100 pages. The reason is that there isn't much to mapping out a process.
So, for the limited subject material, this book does an excellent job. It was a fast read. I think I read it in about 2 hours, going pretty slowly through it.
This book talks about ...
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Henry Ford Today and Tomorrow - Special Edition of Ford's 1926 Classic4 reviews
Henry Ford
Productivity Press, 1988
The book that inspired Taiichi Ohno
This is an outstanding book for those folks in manufacturing who are starting out on their "Lean" journey. The book teaches the uninitiated an original thinker's way of recognizing "waste" in manufacturing, and often, how to deal with that waste. Taiichi Ohno took a "shipload" of this book with him to Japan in the '50s and made sure that every Toyota engineer read the book. The rest is history as ...
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Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production18 reviews
Taiichi Ohno
Productivity Press, 1988
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The book is very good. But I am charged for an additional 10 euros by the mail delivery company for which I was not informed on the website.
So be careful when buying a book from here.
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Creating a Lean Culture: Tools to Sustain Lean Conversions11 reviews
David Mann
Productivity Press, 2005
Great reference on real lean
This book fills an essential gap between Liker's Toyota Way and the many books on Lean Tools.
We intentionally didn't begin our lean transformation in our large service orgnization until we had this book because we saw the folly in trying to implement a bunch of lean tools without the necessary management system.
We have visited some Tier 1 Toyota suppliers and Kaizen really means ...
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The Toyota Product Development System: Integrating People, Process And Technology9 reviews
James M. Morgan, Jeffrey K. Liker
Productivity Press, 2006
Best book about Toyota PD
This is the third book I've read about Toyota and by far the best one. I'm an engineering manager and found dozens of simple, new ideas in this book. This is a very thorough & practical guide to the inside workings of Toyota's PD system. There are many examples and sufficient details that you can easily understand them and also try to implement them in your own organization.
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Lean Production Simplified15 reviews
Dennis Pascal
Productivity Press, 2007
Best Lean Book for Breadth of Knowledge
I've read many of the more popular lean books (see our other reviews), and have been doing lean full-time since 2000. In my view this book has the best, most complete field of view of them all, touching on several concepts that get no attention in any other lean overview text. It should be noted that as far a depth goes however, the name says it all... Lean Production Simplified.
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The Complete Lean Enterprise: Value Stream Mapping for Administrative and Office Processes7 reviews
Beau Keyte, Drew Locher
Productivity Press, 2004
Office Value Stream Maps
Best reference and how to on adminstrative functions for value sream mapping.
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Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Satisfaction
Mark Graban
Productivity Press, 2008
Drawing on his years of working with hospitals, Mark Graban explains why and how lean can be used to improve safety, quality, and efficiency in a healthcare setting. After highlighting the benefits of lean methods for patients, employees, physicians, and the hospital itself, he explains how lean manufacturing staples such as Value Stream Mapping and process observation can help hospital personnel identify and eliminate waste in their own ...
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The Basics of FMEA14 reviews
Robin E. McDermott, Raymond J. Mikulak, ...
Productivity Press, 1996
Excellent Quick Reference Guide for FMEA
A very useful reference guide for Failure Modes and Effects Analysis. All of the basics are covered along with examples of implementation. Simple step-by-step instructions are listed to aid in the training of FMEA techniques. The authors also mention applying FMEA to non-traditional functions such as Accounting/Finance, Software Design, Marketing, Human Resources, and Purchasing. Highly ...
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Green Manufacturing: Case Studies in Lean and Sustainability (Enterprise Excellence)
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Productivity Press, 2007
No manufacturer can afford to ignore the pressing environmental issues of today. To do so puts both their profit line and their legacy at risk. As part of the Enterprise Excellence Series , this book brings together articles and case studies covering environmental, and energy issues that were previously published in the Association of Manufacturing Excellence’s Target Magazine . It covers both areas of moral responsibility, as well as ...
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The 5S Pocket Guide3 reviews
James Peterson, Roland Smith
Productivity Press, 1998
5 S review
The book represents a comprehensive approach to the 5 s system. Very helpful in an overall sense.
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Andy & Me: Crisis And Transformation On The Lean Journey9 reviews
Pascal Dennis
Productivity Press, 2005
A Golden Nugget
I have read a few business improvement novels in the past few years, but this one blew me away. I picked it up and was halfway through the book before I was forced to put it down by some prior engagements. It had a wealth of information that someone eager to learn could consume and digest without trouble, as well as a story line that kept me interested and willing to keep flipping through ...
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Made-to-Order Lean: Excelling in a High-Mix, Low-Volume Environment5 reviews
Greg Lane
Productivity Press, 2007
Must read for the lean practitioner in high-mix, low-volume environments
Made-To-Order Lean provides the lean practitioner excellent guidance and instructions for applying the powerful concepts and methodologies of lean thinking to the most difficult of production environments, the job shop. As such, this book takes a major step forward in extending the reaches of lean thinking to high-mix, low-volume operations. It addresses the lean practitioner, someone who ...
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SPC Simplified: Practical Steps to Quality3 reviews
Robert T. Amsden, Davida M. Amsden, ...
Productivity Press, 1998
Makes SPC easy and accessible to anyone
SPC is one of the most powerful tools available to any organization or workgroup that wants to implement continuous improvement. Unfortunately, it is not widely used outside of manufacturing or companies that are committed to quality. One of the reasons is that is perceived to be difficult to learn. This wonderful book changes that by introducing statistical process controls in a clear, gentle ...
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Value Stream Management10 reviews
Don Tapping, Tom Luyster, ...
Productivity Press, 2002
Good primer
I use this book in my lean manufacturing class. It has good practical examples and a useful method for doing lean using the value stream mapping approach. I highly receommend this book for the first timers. I think someone who has no experience could get started using this book.
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Quick Changeover for Operators: The SMED System (Shopfloor Series)1 review
Shigeo Shingo
Productivity Press, 1996
Easy and straight forward for beginners
Whether you start with JIT/Lean or Quick Response Manufacturing, you need to learn some simple tools helping you with the process improvement after any process analyze. Many books about operations management will teach you the interaction of workstations and the parameters influencing the performance of a workstation, line or even a factory. Furthermore good operations books will give you the ...
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