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Becoming Lean: Inside Stories of U.S. Manufacturers
Author: Jeffrey Liker
Product Code: 1737
ISBN: 978-1-56327-173-1
Pages: 517
Binding: Hard Cover
Price: $40.00
Detailed, first-hand accounts of lean production implemented by
American firms. The best-seller contains performance records, real
numbers to back up the power of going lean, lessons learned in the
process of change (both logistics and people issues), and a realistic
account of the journey to lean. |
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Creating Lean Corporations: Reengineering
from the Bottom Up to Eliminate Waste
Author: Jeffrey Morgan
Product Code: 3241
ISBN: 978-1-56327-324-7
Pages: 272
Binding: Hardcover
Price: $40.00
This book is for business process managers (especially lean leaders)
who seek to reengineer their business processes using lean principles. |
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Creating a Lean Culture: Tools to Sustain
Lean Conversions
Author: David W. Mann
Product Code: 3225
ISBN: 978-1-56327-322-3
Pages: 200
Price: $35.00
2006 SHINGO PRIZE for EXCELLENCE in MANUFACTURING RESEARCH
Creating a Lean Culture helps lean leaders succeed in their personal
batch-to-lean transformation. It provides a practical guide to implementing
the missing links needed to sustain a lean implementation. Mann
provides critical guidance on developing and using the key elements
of a lean management system, including: leader standard work, visual
controls, daily accountability processes, maintaining a process
focus, managing key HR issues, and much more. |
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Eaton Lean System: An Interactive Introduction
to Lean Manufacturing Principles
Product Code: Eaton
ISBN: 978-1-56327-261-5
Binding: CD-ROM
Price: $750.00
Are you looking for a way to introduce fundamental concepts of lean
to your workforce? Are you wondering how to do it? Look no further.
The Eaton Lean System is the way to deliver fundamentals of lean
to your workforce. |
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Evolution of Manufacturing Systems at Toyota
Author: Takahiro Fujimoto
Product Code: 3204
ISBN: 978-0-19-512320-3
Price: $39.95
Through original field studies, historical research, and statistical
analyses, this book shows how the Toyota Motor Corporation built
- and continues to build - distinctive capabilities in production,
product development, and supplier management as part of a total
system. |
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Fast Track to Waste-Free Manufacturing: Straight
Talk from a Plant Manager
Author: John W. Davis
Product Code: 2121
ISBN: 978-1-56327-212-7
Pages: 277
Binding: Hard Cover
Price: $45.00
John W. Davis details a new and proven system called Waste-Free
Manufacturing (WFM) that rapidly deploys the lean process. |
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Fast Track to Waste-Free Manufacturing on
Audio Cassette: Straight Talk from a Plant Manager
Author: John W. Davis
Product Code: 2784
ISBN: 978-1-56327-278-3
Pages: 296
Binding: Cassette
Price: $37.95
In Fast Track to Waste-Free manufacturing: Straight Talk from a
Plant Manager, John Davis details a new and proven system called
Waste-Free Manufacturing (WFM) that rapidly deploys the lean process.
This book, now available on Audio Cassette and CD, will give you
step-by-step directions for making rapid, lasting changes. |
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Fast Track to Waste-Free Manufacturing on
Compact Disc: Straight Talk from a Plant Manager
Author: John W. Davis
Product Code: 2792
ISBN: 978-1-56327-279-0
Pages: 296
Binding: CD (Audio)
Price: $37.95
In Fast Track to Waste-Free Manufacturing: Straight Talk from a
Plant Manager, John Davis details a new and proven system called
Waste-Free Manufacturing (WFM) that rapidly deploys the lean process.
This book, now available on Audio Cassette and CD, will give you
step-by-step directions for making rapid, lasting changes. |
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The Fundamentals of Lean DVD
Author: Productivity Press Development Team
Product Code: 339X
ISBN: 978-1-56327-339-1
Binding: DVD
Price: $495.00
Now In DVD!
Familiarize your company with the basic lean concepts. |
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Identifying Waste on the Shopfloor
Author: Productivity Press Development Team
Product Code: 2873
ISBN: 978-1-56327-287-5
Pages: 89
Binding: Paperback
Price: $25.00
In Identifying Waste on the Shopfloor, the Productivity Development
Team has created an excellent guide to quickly understanding, identifying,
and eliminating shop floor waste. From inventory waste to process-related
waste, Identifying Waste on the Shopfloor covers every type of waste
generating event, policy, and mindset. The book then gives you tools
to effectively eliminate them from your manufacturing processes. |
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Inside the Mind of Toyota: Management Principles
for Enduring Growth
Author: Satoshi Hino Translator: Andrew Dillon
Product Code: 3004
ISBN: 978-1-56327-300-1
Pages: 352
Binding: Hardcover
Price: $50.00
This book clarifies the principles through which any enterprise
or organization can learn to attain its own sustained growth. The
ultimate goal is not to simply mimic Toyota's formula, but to learn
from it and, in doing so, surpass it. |
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Leading the Lean Initiative: Straight Talk
on Cultivating Support and Buy-in
Author: John W. Davis
Product Code: 2474
ISBN: 978-1-56327-247-9
Pages: 253
Binding: Hard Cover
Price: $45.00
This "how-to" manual tackles the "soft" side
of implementing lean. Learn how to lead a lean effort and effectively
manage change. |
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Lean Culture: Collected Practices and Cases
Author: Productivity Press Development Team
Product Code: 3268
ISBN: 978-1-56327-326-1
Pages: 160
Binding: Paperback
Price: $15.00
Provides a variety of case studies, all focus on cultural issues,
ranging from the role of top management, to training and development
of workers and managers, to building buy-in and to sustaining the
culture. |
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Lean Production Simplified, 2nd Edition:
A Plain-Language Guide to the World's Most Powerful Production System
Author: Pascal Dennis
Product Code: 3568
ISBN: 978-1-56327-356-8
Pages: 208
Binding: Paperback
Price: $35.00
2006 SHINGO PRIZE WINNER for EXCELLENCE in MANUFACTURING
RESEARCH
Lean Production Simplified, 2nd Edition is a plain language guide
to the lean production system written for the practitioner by a
practitioner. It delivers a comprehensive "insider's"
view of lean manufacturing. Updated with expanded information, the
author helps the reader to grasp the system as a whole and the factors
that animate it by organizing the book around an image of a "house
of lean production." |
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LeanSpeak: The Productivity Business Improvement
Dictionary
Author: Productivity Press Development Team
Product Code: 275X
ISBN: 978-1-56327-275-2
Pages: 159
Binding: Paperback
Price: $17.50
Do you ever wish you had a single resource for looking up lean or
business improvement jargon? A reference for correct usage, which
links between terms? Most importantly, don't you want to know you're
getting your information from experts in the field? To address these
needs Productivity Press created LeanSpeak - the original and authoritative
compendium of improvement terms. |
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LeanSpeak Ebook: The Productivity Business
Improvement Dictionary
Product Code: 2660
ISBN: 978-1-56327-266-0
Binding: E-Book
Price: $9.95
Do you ever wish you had a single resource for looking up lean or
business improvement jargon?A reference for correct usage, with
links between terms? Most importantly, don't you want to know you're
getting your information from experts in the field? To address these
needs Productivity Press created LeanSpeak - the original and authoritative
compendium of improvement terms. |
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Modern Approaches to Manufacturing Improvement:
The Shingo System
Author: Charles J. Robinson
Product Code: 64X
ISBN: 978-0-915299-64-5
Pages: 420
Binding: Hard Cover
Price: $35.00
Learn about quick changeover, mistake-proofing, non-stock production,
and how to apply Dr. Shingo's famous scientific thinking mechanism. |
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One-Point Lessons: Rapid Transfer of Best
Practices for the Shop Floor
Author: Productivity Press Development Team
Product Code: 2245
ISBN: 978-1-56327-224-0
Pages: 186
Binding: Learning Package
Price: $395.00
A one-point lesson is the primary way of communicating information
about processes and equipment in an organization. And the best way
to learn the technique of one-point lessons is through active participation
with Productivity's newest toolkit. |
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The Sayings of Shigeo Shingo: Key Strategies
for Plant Improvement
Author: Shigeo Shingo
Product Code: 151
ISBN: 978-0-915299-15-7
Pages: 207
Binding: Hard Cover
Price: $45.00
Using hundreds of real-life examples, Shingo describes simple ways
to identify, analyze, and solve problems in the workplace. |
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Standard Work for the Shopfloor
Author: Productivity Press Development Team
Product Code: 2733
ISBN: 978-1-56327-273-8
Pages: 100
Binding: Paperback
Price: $25.00
Standard Work for the Shopfloor introduces production teams and
managers to basic standard work concepts and applications. Use this
book to get everyone on board to maintain quality, efficiency, safety
and predictability. This book will enable plant managers to explain
and thereby get the support they need from higher management for
their performance improvement efforts. |
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Study of the Toyota Production System: From
an Industrial Engineering Viewpoint
Authors: Andrew P. Dillon, Shigeo Shingo
Product Code: 178
ISBN: 978-0-915299-17-1
Pages: 291
Binding: Hard Cover
Price: $55.00
An industrial engineering rationale for the priority of process-based
over operational improvements for manufacturing. |
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Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale
Production
Author: Taiichi Ohno
Product Code: 143
ISBN: 978-0-915299-14-0
Pages: 163
Binding: Hard Cover
Price: $45.00
With Productivity Press' classic books, you learn from the masters.
Taiichi Ohno is considered the inventor of the Toyota Production
System and lean manufacturing. And in his book Toyota Production
System, the creator of just-in-time production reveals the origins,
daring innovations and ceaseless evolution of the Toyota Production
System. |
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Toyota Production System on Audio Tape: Beyond
Large Scale Production
Author: Taiichi Ohno
Product Code: 2687
ISBN: 978-1-56327-268-4
Pages: 180
Binding: Cassette
Price: $29.95
Improve your manufacturing operation using proven methods from the
"founding father of just-in-time" and leading developer
of the Toyota Production System. This classic book, now available
on audio tape and CD, contains the first information ever translated
into English on the Toyota Production System. |
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Toyota Production System on Compact Disc:
Beyond Large-Scale Production
Author: Taiichi Ohno
Product Code: 2679
ISBN: 978-1-56327-267-7
Pages: 180
Binding: CD (Audio)
Price: $29.95
Improve your manufacturing operation using proven methods from the
"founding father of just-in-time" and leading developer
of the Toyota Production System. This classic book, now available
on audio tape and CD, contains the first information ever translated
into English on the Toyota Production System. |
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Training Within Industry: The Foundation
of Lean
Author: Donald A. Dinero
Product Code: 3071
ISBN: 978-1-56327-307-0
Pages: 356
Binding: Hardcover
Price: $45.00
2006 Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing Research
Training Within Industry, by Donald Dinero, explores a crucial piece
of a Lean initiative that has been overlooked throughout U.S. industry.
The Training Within Industry (TWI) program — developed by
the United States during World War II — has been used by Toyota
for decades! This powerful program standardizes training processes
and assists front-line supervisors in teaching new operations to
workers quickly and effectively. |
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The TWI Workbook: Essential Skills for Supervisors
Authors: Patrick Graupp, Robert J. Wrona
Product Code: 3152
ISBN: 978-1-56327-315-5
Pages: 224
Binding: Paperback
Price: $45.00
Readers of The TWI Workbook will be able to perform detailed step-by-step
methods for the three most essential tasks people in management
positions must perform: the ability to teach someone to do a job,
the ability to improve on those jobs, and the ability to build positive
employee relationships with the people they lead. |