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5S FOR OPERATORS
Hiroyuki Hirano 5S is the starting point of any on-the-floor improvement activity and the key to successful change. Teach your team members the basics of 5S: organisation, orderliness,cleanliness, standard clean up, and discipline. Many illustrations, page headers, chapter summaries, and appliation questions. There's no reason why learning shouldn't be fun! more info >> 
KAIZEN FOR THE SHOPFLOOR
Productivity Press Development Team Kaizen for the Shopfloor takes you through the critical steps in conducting a very effective kaizen event - one that is well planned, well implemented, and well documented. more info >> 
THE TOYOTA WAY
Jeffrey Liker The Toyota Way reveals the management principles behind Toyota's worldwide reputation for quality and reliability. Dr. Jeffrey Liker explains how you can adopt these principles to improve the speed of your business processes, improve product and service quality, and cut costs.. more info >> 
MISTAKE-PROOFING FOR OPERATORS
Productivity Press Development Team Mistake-Proofing for Operators includes the instructional features that are the signature of the Shopfloor Series. In this series Productivity Press has taken the lead in adult education by teaming with instructional designers to develop complete programs for frontline learning. more info >> 
ANDY & ME
Pascall Dennis Andy & Me is a business novel set in a failing New Jersey auto plant focusing on the tribulations of Tom Pappas, the plant manager. The situations, characters and plant "politics" will ring true with many readers. more info >> 
CREATING A LEAN CULTURE
David Mann 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. more info >> 
LEAN PRODUCTION SIMPLIFIED, 2ND EDITION
Pascal Dennis 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. 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". more info >> 
THE LEAN OFFICE POCKET GUIDE
Don Tapping The Lean Office has finally arrived! And more importantly many of the practices documented in this little pocket guide will allow any organization - any industry - to implement the tools necessary to achieve a Lean Office. more info >> 
VISUAL WORKPLACE - VISUAL THINKING
Gwendolyn D. Galsworth Visual Workplace-Visual Thinking, positions the technologies of the visual workplace where they belong - as a powerful partner to your company's journey to excellence and crucial to your ability to hold onto and grow lean gains. Learn about the crucial link between visual and lean (two wings of a bird). more info >> 
HOW TO PREVENT LEAN IMPLEMENTATION FAILURES
James Morgan, Jeffrey Liker The first book in the "Making Companies Globally Competitive Series", this book examines in detail the reasons that so many companies experience less than desired results in their productivity initiatives. The book provides a list of ten mistakes that companies make, as well as how to avoid these mistakes in order to ensure a successful Lean Implementation. more info >> |