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Some LEAN Reading Suggestions

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   Lean Manufacturing Back To Top 
 
 •  5S / Visual Workplace
 

5S Implementation Manual

by Catherine Parrill & Bob Rosinski

5S for Operators : 5 Pillars of the Visual Workplace by Hiroyuki Hirano, Melanie Rubin

 Visual Systems: Harnessing the Power of a Visual Workplace by Gwendolyn D. Galsworth

 

 •  Quick Changeover (S.M.E.D.)
  A Revolution in Manufacturing : The SMED System by Shigeo Shingo

 Kaizen for Quick Changeover : Going Beyond SMED by Kenichi Sekine

 •  TPM
  TPM for Every Operator (Shopfloor Series) by Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance

 Successfully Installing Tpm in a Non-Japanese Plant : Total Productive Maintenance by Edward H. Hartmann

 TPM for the Lean Factory : Innovative Methods and Worksheets for Equipment Management by Keniche Sekine

 Implementing TPM: The North American Experience by Charles J. Robinson, Andrew P. Ginder

 •  Value Stream Mapping
  Value Stream Management: Strategy and Excellence in the Supply Chain by Peter Hines

 •  Six Sigma
  The Six Sigma Way: How GE, Motorola, and Other Top Companies are Honing Their Performance by Peter S. Pande

 Six Sigma, The Breakthrough Management Strategy Revolutionizing The World's Top Corporations by Mikel J. Harry, Richard Schroeder

 Implementing Six Sigma: Smarter Solutions Using Statistical Methods by Forrest W., III Breyfogle

 Rath & Strong's Six Sigma Pocket Guide by Rath & Strong

* Other authors recommended; Arthur, Pyzdek, Eckes

 •  JIT / Pull Production
  Time Out : Using Visible Pull Systems to Drive Process Improvement by Wayne K. Smith

 The New Manufacturing Challenge

 KANBAN Just-In-Time at Toyota

 One-piece flow, Cell Design for Transforming the Production Process

 •  Kaizen
  Kaizen Event Implementation Manual by Geoffrey L. Mika

Gemba Kaizen : A Commonsense, Low-Cost Approach to Management

 Kaizen: The Key To Japan's Competitive Success by Masaaki Imai

 The Kaizen Blitz: Accelerating Breakthroughs in Productivity and Performance by Anthony C. Laraia

 Kaizen Strategies for Successful Leadership : How to Take Your Organization into the Future (Kaizen Series) by Tony Barnes

 The Kaizen Revolution by Michael D. Regan

 Kaizen Strategies for Improving Team Performance: How to Accelerate Team Development and Enhance Team Productivity by Michael Colenso

 Cost Reduction Systems: Target Costing and Kaizen Costing by Yasuhiro Monden

* Other authors recommended; Imai, Monden, Sekine

 •  Cultural Change Management
  Lean Manufacturing Assessment Tool by Robert Rosinski

Team Toyota: Transplanting the Toyota Culture to the Camry Plant in Kentucky

 Reengineering the Corporation

 Management Accounting by Anthony A.Atkinson

 The Process Edge: Creating Value Where it Counts by Peter G.W. Keen

 The Memory Jogger Plus +, Featuring the Seven Management and Planning Tools by Michael Brassard

 The Team Handbook

 John P. Kotter on What Leaders Really Do (Harvard Business Review Book) by John P. Kotter

 Force for Change : How Leadership Differs from Management by John P. Kotter

 Leading Change by John P. Kotter

 The Change Management Toolkit by Gary Skarke

 •  Poka-Yoke
  Poka-Yoke: Improving product quality by preventing defects by NKS/Factory Magazine



   Supply Chain        Management Back To Top 
 
 •  Supply Chain Management
  Designing and Managing the Supply Chain : Concepts, Strategies, and Cases by David Simchi-Levi

 Logistics and Supply Chain Management : Strategies for Reducing Cost and Improving Service (Financial Times Management) by Martin Christopher(Preface), Christopher Martin

 Introduction to Supply Chain Management by Robert B. Handfield, Ernest L. Jr. Nichols

 Keeping Score : Measuring the Business Value of Logistics in the Supply Chain by James S. Keebler

 The Supply Chain Network Internet Speed : Preparing Your Company for the E-Commerce Revolution by Fred A. Kuglin, Barbara A. Rosenbaum

 Handbook of Supply Chain Management (The St. Lucie Press/Apics Series on Resource Management) by James B. Ayers(Editor), Jim Ayers

 Customer-Centered Supply Chain Management: A Link-by-Link Guide by Fred A. Kuglin

 Co-makership: The New Supply Strategy for Manufacturers by Giorgio Merli
 Building a Chain of Customers: Linking Business Functions to Create the World Class Company by Richard J. Schonberger

 Supply Chain Development for the Lean Enterprise: Interorganizational Cost Management by Robin Cooper and Regine Slagmulder

 Supercharging Supply Chains: New Ways to Increase Value Through Global Operational Excellence

 3C: A Proven Alternative to MRPII for Optimizing Supply Chain Performance

* Other authors recommended; Bovet, Lowson, Szuprowicz, Banfield, Tompkins



   eLean Commerce Back To Top 
 
 •  ERP
  E-Business and ERP: Transforming the Enterprise by Grant Norris

 Enterprise Resource Planning (Erp) : The Dynamics of Operations Management by Avraham Shtub

 Why ERP? A Primer on SAP Implementation by F. Robert Jacobs

 ERP Tools, Techniques and Applications for Integrating the Supply Chain by Carol A. Ptak, Eli Schragenheim

 SAP R/3 System: An Introduction to ERP and Business Software Technology by Rudiger Buck-Emden, Audrey Weinland

 •  SAP
  Configuring SAP R/3 FI/CO: The Essential Resource for Configuring the Financial and Controlling Modules by David Nowak, Quentin Hurst

 Business Information Warehouse for SAP by Naeem Hashmi

 Implementing SAP Sales and Distribution by Glynn Williams, Simon Yates

 ALE, EDI & IDoc Technologies for SAP by Arvind Nagpal

 Advanced ABAP Programming for SAP by Gareth M. De Bruyn

 Successful SAP R3 Implementation: Practical Management of ERP Projects  by Norbert Welti

 Implementing SAP R/3: The Guide for Business and Technology Managers
* Other authors recommended; Kasturi, Draeger, Doane, Ovanesyan

 •  XML
  Beginning XML by Kurt Cagle

 XML by Example (By Example) by Benoit Marchal

 Java and XML (O'Reilly Java Tools) by Brett McLaughlin

 Developing XML Solutions by Jake Sturm

 
 

 •  eCommerce
  eCommerce: Formulation of Strategy by Robert T. Plant



   Lean Classics Back To Top 
 
 •  Womack
       The Machine That Changed the World by.............. ...... James Womack

.......Lean Thinking by James Womack
 
 •  Shingo
   
  The Sayings of Shigeo Shingo : Key Strategies for Plant Improvement (Japanese Management) by Shigeo Shingo

 A Study of the Toyota Production System from an Industrial Engineering Viewpoint by Shigeo Shingo

 Modern Approaches to Manufacturing Improvement : The Shingo System by Shigeo Shingo

 Non-Stock Production: The Shingo System for Continuous Improvement by Shigeo Shingo

 •  Imai
  Kaizen: The Key To Japan's Competitive Success by Masaaki Imai

 Gemba Kaizen : A Commonsense, Low-Cost Approach to Management by Masaaki Imai

 Collaborating for Change: Gemba Kaizen by Masaaki Imai

 •  Goldratt
  The Goal by Eliyau M. Goldratt It’s Not Luck by Eliyau M. Goldratt

 •  Other
  Japanese Manufacturing Techniques by Richard J. Schonberger

 Attaining Manufacturing Excellence by Robert W. Hall

 Toyota Production System : Beyond Large-Scale Production by Taiichi Ono

 Toyota Production System : An Integrated Approach to Just-In-Time by Yasuhiro Monden

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