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In this modern technological era, conserving and making better use of resources like energy, water, and other essential resources have recently been one of the main concerns for the manufacturing industry.

While there are many books specific to change management or continuous improvement, there are few, if any, books that address the intersections between change management and continuous improvement.

In no industry is the concept of quality more essential than it is in healthcare, which is why the lean quality principles learned through the example of the Toyota Production System are so applicable.

This practical reference/text provides a thorough overview of cost estimating as applied to various manufacturing industries, with special emphasis on metal manufacturing concerns.

Clothing and fashion accessories can serve as valuable primary sources for learning about our history.

Following in the footsteps of its popular predecessor, the second edition of this workbook explains how to apply kanban replenishment systems to improve material flow.

Of the 100 companies named to Fortune magazine's list of the world's largest companies in 1956, only 29 of those companies remain on that list.

The Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance defines safety as the maintenance of peace of mind

The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is the highest level of national recognition for performance excellence that a U.

TWI Case Studies: Standard Work, Continuous Improvement, and Teamwork provides the insight of leading experts to assist in the execution of Training Within Industry (TWI) the game-changing business tool.

Detailing the role of senior management in achieving a successful transformation to organizational excellence, Simple Excellence: Organizing and Aligning the Management Team in a Lean Transformation charts a course of simplification through the complexity often associated with managing performance improvement initiatives.

This book provides how-to guidance and examples for three types of maps, namely relationship map, cross-functional process map, and flowchart.

TWI Case Studies: Standard Work, Continuous Improvement, and Teamwork provides the insight of leading experts to assist in the execution of Training Within Industry (TWI) the game-changing business tool.

A detailed examination of a new concept in customer centricity, this book explores customer perception of quality and how to measure it.

Presenting an alternate approach to supply chain management, Lean Supply Chain Management Essentials: A Framework for Materials Managers 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.

While Lean practices have been successfully implemented into the process industry with excellent results for over 20 years (including the author's own award winning example at Exxon Chemical), that industry has been especially slow in adopting Lean.

For decades, the manufacturing industry has employed the Toyota Production System , the most powerful production method in the world , to reduce waste, improve quality, reduce defects and increase worker productivity.

A company with effective cost reduction activities in place will be better positioned to adapt to shifting economic conditions.

In Keeping Score, the author contends that metrics must be all-encompassing.

Your customers have become increasingly sophisticated and more connected than ever-broadcasting real-time feedback to a cloud of followers who are watching your every move.

The need for competent leadership remains one of the most pressing issues facing organizations.

Recent improvements at Enterride's Trail Rider Memphis Operation bought Pete Grant, the Trail Rider Plant Manager, and his team a little more time, but Pete knew much more was needed to save the plant.

Winner of a 2009 Shingo Research and Professional Publication Prize.

Equipment downtime can bring a lean manufacturing operation to a complete standstill.

Encouraging efficiency, clarity, and disciplined thinking, A3 Problem Solving identifies a problem, describes the objective, and summarizes fact finding and action steps, all on a single A3-sized piece of paper.

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Winner of a 2012 Shingo Research and Professional Publication AwardDemystifying the application of Lean methods, Lean Office and Service Simplified: The Definitive How-To Guide goes beyond the basic tools to detail the key concepts of Lean as they apply to office and service environments.

This book provides expert guidance on using feedback as a performance improvement tool.

Second Edition of a Shingo Prize Winner Based on the author's personal experience with Toyota's master teachers and with companies in the midst of great change, Andy and Me: Crisis and Transformation on the Lean Journey, now in its second edition, is a business novel set in a failing New Jersey auto plant focusing on the tribulations of Tom Pappas,

A Plan for Every Part (PFEP) is all about determining the right part at the right time, in the quantity needed.

Winner of a Shingo Research and Professional Publication AwardInformation Technology is supposed to enable business performance and innovation, improve service levels, manage change, and maintain quality and stability, all while steadily reducing operating costs.

From the prediction of complex weather patterns to the design of swimsuits, modeling has, over the years, quietly but steadily become an essential part of almost every field and industry-and steelmaking is no exception.

For students ready to advance in their study of metals, Physical Metallurgy, Second Edition uses engaging historical and contemporary examples that relate to the applications of concepts in each chapter.

Traditional accounting systems have become inadequate for today's increasingly competitive global manufacturing environment.

Fear of change we all experience it.

For visionary leaders, an Organizational Master Plan and associated technologies have become essential components of strategic decision making.

This book provides expert guidance on using feedback as a performance improvement tool.

This book compiles the experiences of over 150 companies that have embraced the theories of Lean product development.

Written by former Toyota associates, Toyota By Toyota: Reflections from the Inside Leaders on the Techniques That Revolutionized the Industry focuses on the purpose of Lean methodologies, techniques, and principles.

There are many books that seek to explain Lean and Agile software that offer theory, techniques, and examples.

How do you take talented engineers and surround them with the elements needed to create brilliant designs that lead to market-changing products?

A hands-on guide to adapting Lean principles and the Toyota Production System to high-mix/low-volume environments, Lean Production for the Small Company uses charts, pictures, and easy-to-understand language to describe the methods needed to improve processes and eliminate waste.

In the same way that a well-defined approach is needed to develop an effective strategic plan, an equally well-designed approach is needed to support the alignment of your organization's structure, management concepts, systems, processes, networks, knowledge nets, training, hiring, and reward systems.

Making IT Lean: Applying Lean Practices to the Work of IT presents Lean concepts and techniques for improving processes and eliminating waste in IT operations and IT Service Management, in a manner that is easy to understand.

As a society, we tend to reward problem solvers, rather than those who prevent problems at their source.

While the macroscopic phenomenon of superconductivity is well known and in practical use worldwide, the current theoretical paradigm for superconductivity suffers from a number of limitations.

This handy book provides a single, up-to-date source of information for increasing the life of tool steels through optimized design and manufacturing.

Accessible to the Lean novice and shop floor employee, The Basics of Line Balancing and JIT Kitting explores line balancing and the pre-assembly of components into a finished product in a just-in-time fashion (JIT Kitting).

Developed by the late metallurgy professor and master experimentalist Hubert I.

While it is a given that most Lean companies adopt methods to standardize cyclical activities, they often fail to apply the same rigor to noncyclical work, believing that it cannot be measured.