Productivity Press Lean Links

"Lean Links" provides you, our customers, with links to other industry-related sites in manufacturing, admin/office processes, value stream management, and supply chain management. Since this page is a work-in-progress, we will be adding new links. If there are links to related sites that you would like to see on this page, we welcome your feedback/suggestions which you may forward to: ralph.bernstein@taylorandfrancis.com

IT Today
IT Today informs its readers of best practices, as well as of research into current and upcoming issues in information and communication technology (ICT). Articles take a how-to approach to their topics. They help readers solve problems and are applicable to on-the-job situations faced everyday by IT management, staff and consultants in all areas.

iGrafx
iGrafx helps organizations reduce costs, waste and risk by allowing IT, business analysts and process initiative practitioners to understand and improve processes across functional boundaries. The iGrafx suite of business process improvement software allows users to document, analyze, refine and communicate processes in the pursuit of corporate goals and objectives. Whether complying with regulations, aligning business activities with IT, or implementing Six Sigma or Lean, iGrafx establishes and manages the process information that will ensure your success.

Iowa Quality Center
The IQC is a non profit membership corporation offering organizations nation-wide a resource for performance excellence and sustainability. Products include Workplace lean for office, six sigma green and black belt, organizational assessment, problem solving tools, networking, and a huge library of resources. The major focus is on the application and execution of quality principles.

John Grout's Poka-Yoke Page
Information on Mistake-Proofing, ZQC, & Failsafing.

Lean Construction Institute
"We do research to develop knowledge regarding project based production management in the design, engineering, and construction of capital facilities. Lean construction is a production management based project delivery system emphasizing the reliable and speedy delivery of value."

Lean Enterprise Support
High Mix/Low Volume Lean Implementation expertise is offered from world class Toyota trained expert and Productivity Press author Greg Lane, the author of Made-to-Order Lean: Excelling in a High Mix, Low Volume Environment. Not only has he worked for many years to transform low volume companies throughout the world, he also purchased and transformed a mixed model manufacturing company. If your high mix or job shop business needs support on the shop floor or in the office, go to his web site where current lean topics like Hybrid Pull Systems are explained or further support can be requested.

Lean Education Enterprises, Inc.
The premier provider of Lean Consulting services to the K-12 Education community.

Lean Innovations
LEAN Innovations specializes in high quality standard and custom tool board designs, as well as other "Point of Use" tool storage systems. LEAN Innovations' products support the visual workplace.

MichiganEngineering InterPro and Center for Professional Development
Michigan Interdisciplinary and Professional Engineering (InterPro) offers interdisciplinary professional development programs, from graduate degrees to short courses including lean six sigma black belt and green belt certification, lean business processes, lean manufacturing, lean healthcare, lean logistics and supply chain, human factors engineering, mechanics of heavy-duty truck systems, foundations of market risk, automotive and manufacturing, intergrated microsystems, and pharmaceutical engineering.

Ohio State University
The Center for Operational Excellence, Fisher College of Business
A partnership of business organizations and educators who share a common ideal of achieving competitive advantage and operational excellence through education, research and networking. These innovative outreach and engagement programs focus on continuous improvement initiatives such as lean management and Six Sigma.

Shingo Prize
Referred to by BUSINESS WEEK as the "Nobel Prize of Manufacturing", the Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing was established in 1988 to promote awareness of Lean manufacturing concepts and recognize companies in the United States, Canada, and Mexico that achieve world-class manufacturing status. The Shingo Prize philosophy is that world-class business performance may be achieved through focused improvements in core manufacturing and business processes.

Southwestern Michigan College
M-TEC@SMC (Michigan Technical Education Center)
"We're M-TECSM @ SMC and we're ready to handle your company's specific manufacturing training and technical learning needs."

University of Dayton
Center for Competitive Change
Providing Lean Training since 1988, first with Toyota masters, and today with 32 coaches, the Center has completed over 3000 onsite projects. Leading edge training defines the Center for Competitive Change with more than 12,000 satisfied customers. Workshops include Lean Office, Lean IT, Lean Accounting, Product Development, Root Cause, Lean Fundamentals, TPM, and Equipment Reliability.

University of Kentucky
Lean Systems Program
The UK Center for Manufacturing offers extensive resources to companies world-wide in all phases of lean implementation. Public and on-site training offered includes a Certification Course Series, a Leadership Institute, Executive Training, and specialty seminars on Human Systems, Lean Accounting, Value Stream Management, Lean Logistics, and more. Our hands-on, innovative Lean Boot Camps are cutting-edge academic courses for UK students.

Visual Workplace provides you with the tools, technology, and training you need to create your own in house visual controls. For a monthly fee, we set up the equipment, train your team and provide all the support you need to meet the demands of the visual factory. Visit our website to see many examples of how other companies throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico are using these systems.

Vorne Industries
Vorne Industries specializes in the design and manufacture of a broad range of visual display and productivity improvement products including many models with integrated data collection, real-time OEE tracking and performance management features. Focusing exclusively on the industrial manufacturing environment, Vorne products feature extensive real-time data collection capabilities and a wide variety of viewable display output choices. Over thirty years of industrial manufacturing application experience make Vorne products an excellent choice for plant productivity projects.

WCBF: Six Sigma Solutions, is the leading provider of extensively researched, high-quality Six Sigma conferences delivering need to-know business information via best practice case-studies from leading industry minds and early adopters.