Lean Manufacturing

This practical manual contains more than 150 activities for use with children aged 5-11 years old. Written for mainstream and special needs teachers, speech & language therapists, drama teachers and dramatherapists, the book shows how using drama with children across the autism spectrum can help to ..

Organized in three sections, this book covers understanding human performance, analyzing and improving work productivity, and analyzing and improving quality and safety. The author first develops a fundamental and basic understanding of human performance, then couples that understanding with learnin..

Written by a Shingo Prize-winning author and Lean sensei, this book explains how to apply Lean improvement to clinical and non-clinical processes. It presents valuable lessons learned by the author over the years of leading improvements in this complex industry and lays out a clear roadmap for initi..

By applying the strategies in this book, readers can build a workforce and an organization with the capacity to satisfy world-class expectations. Lean Manufacturing: Tools, Techniques, and How to Use Them gives them the benefit of William Feld's 15 years of experience and the lessons he has learned...

Lean Misconceptions: Why Many Lean Initiatives Fail and How You Can Avoid the Mistakes focuses on continuous improvement as well as the tools that organizations can use to achieve long-term growth. Readers will gain important knowledge while also challenging their peers, seniors, subordinates, and t..

Lean Performance ERP Project Management: Implementing the Virtual Lean Enterprise, Second Edition presents a lean business process design and implementation project management methodology that integrates strategy, people, process, information technology, and lean to manage the project implementation..

This hands-on guide to adapting Lean principles and the Toyota Production System to high-mix/low-volume environments uses charts, pictures, and easy-to-understand language to describe the methods needed to improve processes and eliminate waste. It walks readers through the correct order of implement..

Lean RFS (Repetitive Flexible Supply)..

This book is a follow-up to the author's bestselling book, Lean Safety, published in 2010. It is a natural progression from the philosophical overview provided by Lean Safety to the reality of the application of those principles in facilities around the world. This book presents a collection of Lean..

Lean Six Sigma for the Office..

Unlike other strategic procurement guides, Lean Supply Chain Management considers an organization's business condition as a contributing factor in the development of a strategic procurement strategy. That is, rather than taking a one-size fits all approach, the author takes a more individualized app..

This book explains why the traditional materials planning environment, typically embodied by an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, is an ineffective support system for a company that wants to adopt Lean practices. It offers an alternative methodology for implementing Lean into the supply cha..