Lean Manufacturing

This book is about the Lean system. It begins by describing the reasons why so many Lean implementations fail and explaining why managers need to focus their valuable time on early adopters rather than on trying to convert resistors. The book describes the guiding principles of the Shingo process fo..

Although there are many books available on personal efforts to reduce garbage, none exist that focus on business garbage. Filling this need, this book describes how to use garbage analysis as a tool to identify the problems in process flow that produced the garbage. It also explains how to look down..

This book describes how the R&D team at The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company was able to reduce its product development cycle times by 70 percent, improve its on-time delivery performance to close to 100 percent, and improve throughput three-fold by applying lean product development principles. Detail..

LeanSpeak..

Bringing together 32 essays written by 39 highly respected organizational leaders and scholars, this volume provides a wide range of perspectives on how workplace cultures both cultivate and inhibit organizational learning and development. This definitive collection while rich in concept, contains a..

Make Your Business a Lean Business is a written by business leaders for business leaders as a how to guide to building enduring market leadership. Based on the authors more than 60 years experience applying Lean to operations and businesses, this book will allow readers to understand Lean principles..

This book is designed to help readers develop and maintain logical, adaptable solutions to business problems. It demonstrates how to visualize business dependency connections with a square spreadsheet called a Dependency Structure Matrix (DSM). Once the links representing dependencies are visualized..

Maximizing Profit..

Modern Approaches to Manufacturing Improvement..

This is the true story of how, armed with only Lean improvement methodologies, a specially trained Toyota Lean expert purchased a business he knew nothing about, applied Lean techniques, and succeeded in doubling sales and increasing profitability, before he finally sold the thriving business. With ..

An introduction to three types of interactive media - computer conferencing, audiographics and video conferencing - which explains how each type can be used in the open learning environment. It describes attributes and limitations, analyzing appropriate applications through case studies...

Organizational Behavior and Virtual Work: Concepts and Research shows the enormous impact of technology and globalization on employment relationships and also predicts how they will contribute to the changing dimensions of organizations in the future. With a unique blend of theory and application in..