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recommended reading
lean tools & techniques
If you want to go beyond the basic concepts of Lean and delve into the tools and techniques, then you'll want to read...
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Lean Production Simplified (2nd Edition) A Plain-Language Guide to the World's Most Powerful Production System by Pascal Dennis. Nobody.and I mean nobody makes Lean more accessible to the lay person than Pascal Dennis. This book on Lean application is written for a practitioner, by a practitioner. It is written for "Lean learners". This is a clear and simple (not simplistic) guide to Lean production---its components, how they fit together, and the spirit that amplifies them. Read Dennis carefully, as he makes the implicit elements of Lean (which are often subtle yet essential) explicit. |
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The Toyota Way Fieldbook A Practical Guide for Implementing Toyota's 4P's by Liker and Meier. For the Lean practitioner, this book should never be more than an arm's length away. It provides the diagnostic tools, worksheets and exercises-- many adopted from the Toyota originals---so you can craft the most effective approach for your company. More importantly, you will understand the thinking behind the Lean tools and approaches. The 4P's are: Philosophy, Process, People and Problem Solving. |
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New Manufacturing Challenge: Techniques for Continuous Improvement by K. Suzaki is a practical handbook for any operations/plant manager who wants to make significant sustainable improvement in their operations. It provides example after example of the common-sense application of continuous improvement tools and techniques and more importantly will really stir the reader to action. |
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by Harris & Rother is designed to equip the reader with the required skills to achieve and maintain a truly efficient flow of materials through operations. The objective of the book is to allow the reader to be better at seeing and feeling flow, and to describe the tools and techniques required to implement that flow.
by Womack, Jones, Shook & Ferro. As a follow up or sequel to Creating Continuous Flow, this book moves from performance at the individual cell level to the material handling system for the entire facility and even beyond.
by Art Smalley is a Lean production system improvement design guide for production control, operations and engineering professionals.