Lean Manufacturing

Written by two experts who have dedicated their careers to quality improvement, Escape the Improvement Trap: Five Ingredients Missing in Most Improvement Recipes separates itself from other improvement books by looking at why most companies rarely achieve anything more than an average level of impro..

Shows how the lean approach can be very effective with those businesses that are innovation-based in terms of product development. This text focuses on the six key areas necessary for dramatic development: innovation, rapid prototyping, knowledge capture, learning cycles, process stabilization, and ..

Education and training are the single most important precursors to successful ERP implementations. Specifically defining a comprehensive method for planning, developing, delivering, and evaluating ERP training efforts, this book includes formulas for determining training return on investment. The Le..

Examining the current U.S. manufacturing environment, including the unsustainable trade imbalance, this book outlines concrete suggestions that can help stop the outflow of manufacturing jobs and prosperity from our shores. The book explains why many companies have not reaped the benefits promised f..

Inventory classification is the backbone of distribution profitability. Important inventory management criteria such as customer service level, margin, days supply and EOQ can not be applied across the board by vendor or product category. Therefore, different types of items must be managed different..

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Kanban..

Providing actionable steps for each stage in the manufacturing and supply chain management process, this book presents a detailed roadmap for implementing Kanban. This updated second edition focuses on creating an environment for success. Addressing both internal and external elements, it considers ..

Too many companies have been misled to think that the Toyota Production System (TPS) is about "tools" and that meaningful results will be achieved through the vast implementation of random tools. This has left the vast majority of Lean efforts struggling to achieve meager results. This book helps to..

Lean Culture..

Many books explain how to construct a value stream map, but few explain the process conditions and characteristics required to ensure a value stream map can be completed successfully. This book fills this need. Although the book explains Lean methods and tools that maximize process performance, its ..