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Creating A Lean Culture: Tools To Sustain Lean Conversions 14 reviews
David Mann
Productivity Press, 2005
The best functional guide to lean
I searched high and low for a book on Lean manufacturing to better understand its application and function. To many authors go into theory and academic explanations or dialogs of Japanese words. This was what I was looking for! I found this book so valuable that I made it required reading for my entire staff.
We have now started on the lean journey.
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SPC Simplified: Practical Steps to Quality6 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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Toyota Production System on Audio Tape: Beyond Large Scale Production27 reviews
Taiichi Ohno
Productivity Press, 2001
Very good presentation of lean manufacturing
An excellent overview of the main concepts of lean manufacturing: finding waste, JIT, kanban, production leveling, flow, automation with a human touch, reduced set-up times, the "5 why", etc. Explanations are to the point and easy to understand.
What makes this book unique is that the author was THE pioneer who brought most of these concepts to life. In the last chapters of the book he does a ...
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5 Pillars of the Visual Workplace (For Your Organization!)8 reviews
Hiroyuki Hirano
Productivity Press, 1995
Readable and practical book
I checked this out from the library and read it in one day (I didn't do anything else all day, and I'm a fast reader). Hirano's style is very educational: he resorts to humor, he states his biases clearly, he details step-by-step instructions, he warns about pitfalls, he gives his own insight on overcoming those pitfalls. He walks the walk: the only photo of him in the book is of him cleaning ...
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Value Stream Management11 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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The Pittsburgh Way to Efficient Healthcare: Improving Patient Care Using Toyota Based Methods6 reviews
Naida Grunden
Productivity Press, 2007
The Pittsburgh Way...Demonstrates Practical Application of Lean in Healthcare
Naida Grunden has written a practical, yet technically sound book regarding the tremendous work that has taken place in the Pittsburgh region. It speaks clearly to those within the healthcare industry that may be "put off" or can't relate to the more common Lean writings of those from industry, and that attempt to force manufacturings Lean approach as a pure translation to healthcare. Naida not ...
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A CQI System for Healthcare9 reviews
Tim Mannello
Productivity Press, 1995
How to be among the best nationally in customer service.
A national research firm, Press Ganey rated the Susquehanna Health System (SHS) in Williamsport, Pa. among the top 2% in nursing care and among the top 5% overall in overall patient satisfaction compared to the best hospitals in the country. How does SHS consistently earn such ratings? This book will give you the complete story.
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Practical Lean Accounting: A Proven System for Measuring and Managing the Lean Enterprise12 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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Leading the Lean Enterprise Transformation6 reviews
George Koenigsaecker
Productivity Press, 2009
I highly recommend
I just finished the book. I think it is great. I thought the chapters on tactics, strategy and culture were particularly insightful.
This book helps you leap frog you lean transformation by presenting useful lessons learned. At the same time, the author clearly communicates that lean is a journey--not a short dash.
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Quick Response Manufacturing: A Companywide Approach to Reducing Lead Times6 reviews
Rajan Suri
Productivity Press, 1998
Complete Book for Improving Manufacturing
It was hard to put this book down when I first read it. As a manufacturing manager, it almost seemed as if Prof. Suri had spent time in my plant. Most of the topics he addresses in QRM are relevant to the issues I was struggling with. He writes about reducing lead time in all aspects of operations, even product development. His concept of POLCA to create a pull system for low volume, high mix ...
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Transforming Strategy into Success: How to Implement a Lean Management System4 reviews
George Shinkle, Reb Gooding, ...
Productivity Press, 2004
A Great Read About Lean Applied to Business Systems
"Transforming Strategy into Success" is a practical and direct guide on how to think about applying lean enterprise, which I used to think about for manufacturing, to business systems for process and profit improvement. Reb and the team have done a great job of bringing the topic together and making it useful. I recommend it! by Kenneth H Marks, lead author of The Handbook of Financing Growth: ...
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A Culture of Rapid Improvement: Creating and Sustaining an Engaged Workforce3 reviews
Raymond C. Floyd
Productivity Press, 2008
An ideal textbook for MBA programs
Employees who are good at their job are the bedrock upon which any corporation or business is founded. In "A Culture Of Rapid Improvement: Creating And Sustaining An Engaged Workforce", Raymond C. Floyd draws upon his more than forty years of industrial management experience and expertise to lay out the principles and practices that all corporate managers and business owners must apply if they ...
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Industrial Dynamics4 reviews
Jay Wright Forrester
Productivity Press, 1961
Excellent book!
A very high quality study of the information-feedback characteristics of industrial activity; describing how the flows of information, money, orders, materials, personnel, and capital plant interact to produce the system's behavior over time; relating organizational structure & corporate policy to corporate growth and stability.
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Creating the Ultimate Lean Office: A Zero-Waste Environment with Process Automation3 reviews
Raymond S. Louis
Productivity Press, 2007
Great reference for Lean office
This book opens a whole new powerful path to creating a lean office. It
is not about trying to manipulate and adapt shop floor techniques to the
office but rather about a simplistic team based approach in creating
lean processes. The methods keep lean simple and straightforward. If I
had to pick only one book on the subject of creating a lean office this
would be the book, it is a ...
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A Study of the Toyota Production System: From an Industrial Engineering Viewpoint (Produce What Is Needed, ...4 reviews
Shigeo Shingo, Andrew P. Dillon
Productivity Press, 1989
Detailed engineering description of TPS
There are a lot of books about the Toyota Production System, but this is one of the most useful for those actually attempting to implement elements of this system. Most of the books on TPS by western authers are just superficial glosses written by MBA's who don't seem to have a clue how to make anything. This book is detailed, specific, clearly written, and very well translated. Some of the ...
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Hoshin Kanri for the Lean Enterprise: Developing Competitive Capabilities and Managing Profit4 reviews
Thomas L. Jackson
Productivity Press, 2006
The absolute best on hoshin kanri
Tom Jackson's practical and valuable insights are rivaled only by the importance and benefits of applying Hoshin Kanri. Hoshin Kanri as a practice has been applied as part of lean transformation efforts for quite a long time. But there were still very limited resources for people to learn more about it. Tom's work in this arena is extensive, and throughout all of his books (others are ...
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Beyond the Balanced Scorecard: Improving Business Intelligence with Analytics5 reviews
Mark Graham Brown
Productivity Press, 2007
Another Glowing Success
One of the key points I took away from Mark's new book is that analytics can form the basis of a dynamic approach to performance management. Dynamic in the sense that analytics can be adjusted to be more responsive to changing directions in the market, the economy, employee profile or whatever is important to the organization. Because an analytic is a composite or aggregate of sub-metrics, each ...
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Lean Logistics: The Nuts And Bolts Of Delivering Materials And Goods5 reviews
Michel Baudin
Productivity Press, 2005
Practical and real solutions for real challenges
Lean Thinking originated from TPS and is well spread in the manufacturing world, with a lot of information on how to improve manufacturing. For logistics however, many Lean tools don't apply; on the other hand there are aspects more specific to logistics, which are not well addressed by the manufacturing-oriented Lean literature.
This book fills the gap and is well written. It is:
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A Tale of Two Systems: Lean and Agile Software Development for Business Leaders4 reviews
Michael K. Levine
Productivity Press, 2009
Masterful insights for agile methods in large-scale projects
This book provides a compelling reinforcement of what seasoned IT professionals know from experience; that "big bang" formal waterfall methodologies for large complex development and integration projects don't work. Mr. Levine has made a major contribution to the industry by presenting a persuasive alternative in terms of how agile methods can be applied in a similar context. Most books on ...
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Four Practical Revolutions in Management : Systems for Creating Unique Organizational Capability4 reviews
Shoji Shiba, David Walden
Productivity Press, 2001
Excellent
Firstly, the first review of this book on this page is by Goodloe Suttler who is actually acknowleged in the book so should have mentioned this in his review, unless this is a stunning coincidence. However, his review is correct. This book extends the previous version (A New American TQM) and adds valuable new material. I found A New American TQM was in my top 5 Quality Books list - an excellent ...
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