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recommended reading
lean education & awareness
Lean is more about people and culture than it is about tools and techniques. Lean is a culture where process improvement is paramount. Product and service provision are mere results of the process.
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Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production by Taiichi Ohno. Here's the first information ever published in Japan on the Toyota Production System (known as Just-In-Time manufacturing). Ohno, who created JIT for Toyota, reveals the origins, daring innovations, and ceaseless evolution of the Toyota system into a full management system. You'll learn how to manage JIT from the man who invented it, and to create a winning JIT environment in your own manufacturing operation. |
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Becoming Lean: Inside Stories of U.S. Manufacturers by Jeffrey Liker describes, in great detail, the initial steps taken by a number of pioneering American firms in a range of industries to introduce Lean thinking. It demonstrates how the concept of Lean is disarmingly simple to understand, but very difficult in application. |
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Quick Response Manufacturing: A Companywide Approach to Reducing Lead Times by Rajan Suri. QRM is a manufacturing strategy that focuses on speed throughout the manufacturing process. All efforts are focused on lead-time reduction. Unlike other Lean manufacturing clones, QRM distinguishes itself with some unique approaches. And while I'm not willing to accept everything the author is pushing, I certainly found some valuable insights. |
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by John Davis takes a simple step-by-step approach in describing the transformation of a plant from a typical troubled operation to a Lean operation. Davis focuses on basics and "how-to", not buzz words and jargon. Davis provides a framework that can be used by any plant manager who is trying to implement Lean manufacturing concepts in a 'traditional' manufacturing setting.