books: toyota production ...     books:       Understanding A3 Thinking: A Critical Component of Toyota's PDCA Management System14 reviews Productivity Press, 2008 Good A3 Reference Book Outstanding reference work of the logic and mechanics of creating A3's. Covered are 3 variants: 1) Problem Solving A3's, 2) Proposal A3's, and 3) Status A3's. The authors present a refreshingly pragmatic approach to helping improvement teams and leaders to drive communication, scientific method thinking and organizational alignment for improvement. Clearly building on the A3 heritage of ...             The Toyota Product Development System: Integrating People, Process And Technology15 reviews James M. Morgan, Jeffrey K. Liker Productivity Press, 2006 Excellent Textbook I took a few Lean Manufacturing related courses and read books for the courses. I wondered why American companies couldn't implement the Lean concepts. This book explains why American companies have been failing in implementing it. I would like to recommend this book for the people who want to build the Lean thinking skill first before learning about Lean Manufacturing.             The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production-- Toyota's Secret Weapon in the Global Car ...9 reviews James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, ... Free Press, 2007 The truth about Detroit If you want to understand why GM, Ford, and Chrysler are doomed and have been doomed for two decades, this is the book. I've worked both for GM (twice) and in Japan for a Japanese automotive supplier, and I can attest that this book really got it right. Unfortunately, while everyone in Detroit has read this book, they have never followed any of its advice or conclusions. All the talk ...             Managing to Learn: Using the A3 Management Process8 reviews John Shook Lean Enterprise Institute, Inc., 2008 should be on every lean practitioners shelf I think the title of my review already says it; this is a great book that should be read and owned by everyone that is interested in Lean, problem solving, or leadership.             Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production28 reviews Productivity Press, 1988 Very good presentation of lean manufacturing An excellent overview of the main concepts of lean manufacturing: finding waste, JIT, kanban, production leveling, flow, automation with a human touch, reduced set-up times, the "5 why", etc. Explanations are to the point and easy to understand. What makes this book unique is that the author was THE pioneer who brought most of these concepts to life. In the last chapters of the book he does a ...             The Gold Mine: A Novel of Lean Turnaround15 reviews Freddy Balle, Michael Balle Lean Enterprises Inst Inc, 2005 Introduces the right concepts at the right time. An enjoyable introduction of the most basic - and most powerful - Lean concepts, applied in a fictional factory. In many ways The Gold Mine replaces The Goal, by Eliyahu Goldratt, by using a richer set of observations about the plant. The plot involves a retired Lean sensei who reluctantly helps a friend bring the plant back to profitability by introducing the right concept at the right time - ...             The Toyota Way103 reviews McGraw-Hill, 2003 Why Toyota will recover from the current crisis I wish I would have read this book before I started studying any of the Lean/Six Sigma literature or even the Theory of Constraints for that matter. This book does an outstanding job of explaining the concepts Toyota developed through the years that heavily influenced the Lean/Six Sigma literature. I found myself reading the book to see how Toyota could have faltered as they have of late, but ...             The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production-- Toyota's Secret Weapon in the Global Car ...10 reviews, ... Free Press, 2007 Mistake The Machine that Changed the World has been published more than once. Amazon, you're offering a special "buy these 2 titles, and save", but they are the exact same book.             The Toyota Way Fieldbook30 reviews Jeffrey Liker, David Meier McGraw-Hill, 2005 The focus is on providing a practical guide for implementing Toyota's 4Ps... This is a great book written by people who worked with Toyota manufacturing...It is filled with many examples, tools and templates which show how Toyota's production system works at a manufacturing line level... But, the interesting approach is how the authors describe Toyota's reasoning behind the use of each of the tools and methods...Examples include developing people though on the job ...             Chasing the Rabbit: How Market Leaders Outdistance the Competition and How Great Companies Can Catch Up and ...18 reviews Steven Spear McGraw-Hill, 2008 An instant classic: read it! Steven Spear has probably contributed singly more than anyone to the emergence of "lean management" from the field fo lean manufacturing and lean production. Three of his seminal contributions have been around different angles-of-view. In Toyota's DNA he has focused on the level of detailed specification of the operatiosn processes, specifying outputs, pathways, connections and activities. Taking ...             The 5S Desktop (PC) Pocket Handbook - Using the Power of the Toyota Production System (Lean) to Organize and ...7 reviews Vlado Baban, Doug Fertuck, ... MCS Media, Inc., 2009 Great Beginning of Lean for Electronic Files and Folders The 5S Desktop (PC) Pocket Handbook is in a class of its own. The concept, as well as the step-by-step instructions, on how to apply the most basic concept of Lean to your Desktop files and folders, makes this the first Lean book that I have found true value. Many books briefly discuss on how Lean can be applied to the digital world, but none provide concrete examples on what/how to do it. ...             Optimizing Factory Performance : Cost-Effective Ways to Achieve Significant and Sustainable Improvement4 reviews McGraw-Hill, 2009 Tiger Woods in the Factory In this book you will learn the difference between knowing how to hit a good shot and how to win a golf tournament. Tiger Woods is the best golfer in the world. However, there are some golfers who the hit the ball farther, who chip the ball better, who can bend the ball one way or the other, but no one can utilize all the tools in the golf bag the way Tiger does. The same can be said for ...             A Study of the Toyota Production System: From an Industrial Engineering Viewpoint (Produce What Is Needed, ...4 reviews Shigeo Shingo, Andrew P. Dillon Productivity Press, 1989 Detailed engineering description of TPS There are a lot of books about the Toyota Production System, but this is one of the most useful for those actually attempting to implement elements of this system. Most of the books on TPS by western authers are just superficial glosses written by MBA's who don't seem to have a clue how to make anything. This book is detailed, specific, clearly written, and very well translated. Some of the ...             Ready, Set, Dominate: Implement Toyota's Set-based Learning for Developing Products and Nobody Can Catch You3 reviews Michael Kennedy, Kent Harmon, ... Oaklea Press, 2008 If you're serious about the Toyota Way in product development ... This is the second of Kennedy's books and, like the first, most of it's in the form of a business novel. Those familiar with product development in Western firms will find all of the characters familiar - sometimes painfully so. What sets the new book apart is inclusion of two powerful case studies of committed implementation of set-based (problem solving/knowledge-based) product ...             Toyota's Supply Chain Management : A Strategic Approach to Toyota's Renowned System4 reviews McGraw-Hill, 2009 Excellent Operational Insight - The authors use "Toyota's Supply Chain Management" to explain how Toyota implements its Toyota Production System in automobile manufacture. Variety is chosen carefully to balance market demands and operational efficiency. Reducing variability enables all of the supply chain flows to operate with low levels of inventory. Visibility ensures that bottlenecks are noted and responses immediate. Toyota ...             Improving Healthcare Using Toyota Lean Production Methods: 46 Steps for Improvement, Second Edition2 reviews Robert Chalice ASQ Quality Press, 2007 Chalice nails down the problem and solution Healthcare is broken and everyone knows it. What Robert Chalice identifies in this improvement book are the specifics of the problem and the steps to corrective measures, including cutting costs (while improving quality) by using lean practices. I found this book both well researched and useful. It is now more important than ever we are able to pull costs (waste) out of the system. Even a ...             Product Development for the Lean Enterprise: Why Toyota's System Is Four Times More Productive and How You ...18 reviews Michael N. Kennedy Oaklea Press, 2003 Met expectations The book was in the condition described and it was received in the alotted time.             The Pittsburgh Way to Efficient Healthcare: Improving Patient Care Using Toyota Based Methods6 reviews Naida Grunden Productivity Press, 2007 The Pittsburgh Way...Demonstrates Practical Application of Lean in Healthcare Naida Grunden has written a practical, yet technically sound book regarding the tremendous work that has taken place in the Pittsburgh region. It speaks clearly to those within the healthcare industry that may be "put off" or can't relate to the more common Lean writings of those from industry, and that attempt to force manufacturings Lean approach as a pure translation to healthcare. Naida not ...             Lean Office Demystified II - Using the Power of the Toyota Production System in Your Administrative, Desktop ...7 reviews Don Tapping, Doug Fertuck, ... MCS Media, Inc., 2010 Simple Ways to Learn Lean in the Office I found this book to break down the implementation of Lean in administrative areas very helpful. The concepts of takt time, pitch, standard work, error-proofing, predictable output, leveling, etc. are explained in relatively simple terms that all levels of the organization can relate to. The example of the Global Winds case study at the end of each chapter certainly brings the concepts into the ...             Toyota Production System: An Integrated Approach to Just-In-Time1 review Yasuhiro Monden Engineering & Management Press, 1998 The nuts and bolts of how JIT works. With all of the recent attention to "Lean Manufacturing" (Womak, The Machine That Changed The World, Lean Thinking), this book, now in its third edition, is different. Rather than telling you how to implement the Toyota Production System, Monden gives the reader a comprehensive technical description of how the entire system functions, and how the pieces work together to form the most ...              search for books administrative, christensen, competition, cost-effective, demystified, developing, development, electronic, engineering, enterprise, environments, healthcare, improvement, industrial, integrating, just-in-time, large-scale, management, networking, optimizing, outdistance, performance, production, productive, revolutionizing, significant, sustainable, technology, turnaround, understanding books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Cheffin': From Potatoes to Caviar home  impressum - about us