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If You Are New To Lean

If you are new to lean, the books and learning tools listed below can provide you with an understanding of the fundamentals of lean, insights into what lean can achieve, and a basic understanding of lean terminology and tools.

 
 
Identifying Waste on the Shopfloor (Shopfloor Series)
In Identifying Waste on the Shopfloor, the Productivity Development Team has created an excellent guide to quickly understanding, identifying, and eliminating shop floor waste. From inventory waste to process-related waste, Identifying Waste on the Shopfloor covers every type of waste generating event, policy, and mindset. The book then gives you tools to effectively eliminate them from your manufacturing processes.
$25.00
Toyota Production System (Ohno)
With Productivity Press' classic books, you learn from the masters. Taiichi Ohno is considered the inventor of the Toyota Production System and lean manufacturing. And in his book Toyota Production System, the creator of just-in-time production reveals the origins, daring innovations and ceaseless evolution of the Toyota Production System.
$45.00
 
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Fast Track to Waste-Free Manufacturing
Fast Track to Waste-Free Manufacturing will give you step-by-step directions to making rapid, lasting changes. John Davis has created 4 new drivers of waste-free manufacturing (WFM), linking them in order, so you know the sequence and when it is time to move to the next driver. He covers nearly every aspect of the lean revolution and provides essential tools and techniques you will need to implement WFM.
$45.00
Lean Production Simplified
Lean Production Simplified 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."
$30.00
 
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Becoming Lean
Detailed, first-hand accounts of lean production implemented by American firms. The best-seller contains performance records, real numbers to back up the power of going lean, lessons learned in the process of change (both logistics and people issues), and a realistic account of the journey to lean.
$40.00
Andy & Me
Based on the author's personal experience with Toyota senseis and with companies in the midst of great change, 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.
$19.95
 
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LeanSpeak
Do you ever wish you had a single resource for looking up lean or business improvement jargon? A reference for correct usage, with links between terms? Most importantly, don't you want to know you're getting your information from experts in the field? To address these needs Productivity Press created LeanSpeak - the original and authoritative compendium of improvement terms.
$17.50
Eaton Lean System CD
Are you looking for a way to introduce fundamental concepts of lean to your workforce? Are you wondering how to do it? Look no further. The Eaton Lean System is the way to deliver fundamentals of lean to your workforce.
$750.00
 
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Fundamentals of Lean DVD
Familiarize your company with the basic lean concepts.
$495.00
 
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If you are new to lean and do NOT work in manufacturing, the following titles may help you begin your lean journey.

 
Lean Office
Companies interested in lean office issues typically desire two types of information: They want to know how to apply lean methods and tools to the office, and they want to know what other companies have done, how they have done it, what they have achieved and what challenges they faced.
$15.00
5S for the Office
Tom Fabrizio and Don Tapping bring the concepts of the 5S System -- effective tools for the elimination of waste on the shop floor -- into the office environment. Readers of this book can immediately apply the concepts of 5S to their office and administrative activities, resulting in the elimination of waste, reduced production costs, and increased profits.
$45.00
 
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Freedom from Command and Control
Through extensive case material, this book explains the difference between command and control and systems thinking and illustrates how the latter leads to improved service, better revenues, lower costs, and higher staff morale.
$40.00
 
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