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Lean & 5S Books
5S Visual Workplace Management, Lean, Kaizen, SMED
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Process Mastery with Six Sigma **NEW**
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Process Mastery with Six Sigma
One of the most comprehensive books on improving process by applying Lean Thinking and Six Sigma tools. The 1st edition of this profoundly comprehensive yet imple user’s guide continually sold out since it was first published in 2004. The 1st edition took 2 years to write and publish. This 2nd edition took 1,286 hours to complete and is now an 848 page integration of Team Leadership, Lean Thinking and Six Sigma in a practical framework for improvement project leadership
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Book - Visual Workplace - Visual Thinking
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At last, a comprehensive strategy for eliminating waste, sustaining lean gains, and unifying and aligning the work culture.
Visual Workplace/Visual Thinking, positions the Technologies of the Visual Workplace where they belong–as a powerful partner to your company's journey to excellence and a crucial ally of Lean. The outcome is dazzling bottom-line results and a spirited, unified and aligned work culture–a workforce of Visual Thinkers.
Dr. Galsworth delineates the progression of visual methods that build a fully-functioning visual work environment: Visual Order, Visual Standards, Visual Displays, Visual Metrics, visual problem solving, Visual Controls, visual pull systems, and Visual Guarantees (Poka-Yoke devices).
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Book - Creating the Ultimate Lean Office
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Manufacturing and service related businesses are heavily dependent on office and administrative processes, which can add up to 60% of all costs associated with meeting customer demand. Applying lean techniques to the office must begin with a new definition of waste, backed by a set of techniques designed to eliminate waste and streamline nonvalue-adding activities.
In Creating the Ultimate Lean Office, the definition of waste in the office goes one step further than the lean manufacturing definition, because any office activity that adds value or is necessary to perpetuate the business is considered waste if it is still manually performed although it can be cost-effectively automated. The technique employed to eliminate this waste of manually performing required activities is referred to as administration automation.
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Book - 5S for the Office
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Provides detailed step-by-step implementation on how to apply 5S to your office activities. Includes forms, worksheets, and photos that will allow you to "see" the value of 5S, thereby increasing sustained support of the implementation. The accompanying CD contains blank versions of many of the worksheets that appear throughout the book. The worksheets on the CD, however, are interactive - the user can electronically enter and save information right on the particular form. Can be used as a training and implementation manual.
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.
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Book - Understanding A3 Thinking
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In Understanding A3 Thinking, the authors first show that the A3 report is an effective tool when it is implemented in conjunction with a PDCA-based management philosophy. Toyota views A3 Reports as just one piece in their PDCA management approach. Second, the authors show that the process leading to the development and management of A3 reports is at least as important as the reports themselves, because of the deep learning and professional development that occurs in the process. And finally, the authors provide a number of examples as well as some very practical advice on how to write and review A3 reports.
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Book - Kanban for the Shop Floor
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Kanban is the name given to the inventory control card used in a pull system. The primary benefit of kanban is to reduce overproduction, the worst of the seven deadly wastes. A true kanban system produces exactly what is ordered, when it is ordered, and in the quantities ordered. It is essentially a dynamic work order that moves with the material.
Each kanban identifies the part or subassembly unit and indicates where each one came from and where each is going. Used this way, kanban acts as a system of information that integrates your plant, connects all processes one to another, and connects the entire value stream to customer demand.
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Book - Value Stream Mapping for Lean Development
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Customers and markets identify needs and problems and companies design products and services to fill or solve them. While this relationship may seem straightforward, the development process in most companies is often a root cause for customer dissatisfaction and can lead to substantial waste throughout an enterprise. Mistakes made on the proverbial drawing board can have a significant impact on an organization for many years. Therefore, the application of lean thinking and detailed mapping to the development process is especially important, particularly when one considers the ever shortening product and service life cycle experienced in most industries. In Value Stream Mapping for Lean Development, Drew Locher provides an accessible, enjoyable, how-to guide to value stream mapping that highlights its tremendous impact on product development and accompanying processes.
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Book - The Complete Lean Enterprise
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Beau Keyte and Drew Locher's new book, The Complete Lean Enterprise: Value Stream Mapping for Administrative and Office Processes, offers a step-by-step approach to applying lean initiatives to the administrative and office environment. It's a must read for leaders looking to improve their production support activities within their order-to-cash value stream. The Complete Lean Enterprise is a valuable tool in applying value stream mapping (VSM) to non-production areas, identifying office wastes, establishing performance metrics, speeding up administrative workflow, and improving office efficiency.
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Book - Lean Hospitals
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Drawing on his years of working with hospitals, Mark Graban explains why and how lean can be used to improve safety, quality, and efficiency in a healthcare setting. After highlighting the benefits of lean methods for patients, employees, physicians, and the hospital itself, he explains how lean manufacturing staples such as Value Stream Mapping and process observation can help hospital personnel identify and eliminate waste in their own processes, effectively preventing delays for patients, reducing wasted motion for caregivers, and improving the quality of care. Additionally, Graban describes how Standardized Work and error-proofing can prevent common hospital errors and details root cause problem-solving and daily improvement processes that can engage all personnel in systemic improvement. A unique guide for healthcare professionals, this book clearly elaborates the steps they can take to begin the proactive process of lean implementation.
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Book - 5S for Operators - 5 Pillars of the Visual Workplace
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Hiroyuki Hirano’s five pillars of the visual workplace: sort, set in order, shine, standardize and sustain are the most fundamental and often overlooked aspects in continuous improvement initiatives. Together, these concepts form the framework of the 5S System, a set of principles whose simplicity often betrays its powerful impact on the workplace. So much of the 5S System seems like common sense, that it is astonishing how often such seemingly simple practices are absent in manufacturing operations. That is why Productivity Press is proud to bring you 5S for Operators: 5 Pillars of the Visual Workplace, a hands-on book that explains the principles, rationale and implementation details of the 5S System.
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Book - Kaizen and the Art of Creative Thinking
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Kaizen and the Art of Creative Thinking
Once again Dr. Shigeo Shingo will amaze you. Along with Taiichi Ohno, Dr. Shingo co-developed TPS (LEAN) with his deep understanding of how to improve the overall process of production. Dr. Shingo reveals how he taught Toyota and other Japanese companies the art of identifying and solving problems.
Many companies in the West are trying to emulate Lean but few can do it. Why not? Possibly, because we in the West do not recognize, develop and support the creative potential of every worker in solving problems. Toyota makes all employees problem solvers. Dr. Shingo gives you the tools to do it.
It is an easy to read brilliant book!
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Book - Strategos Guide to Value Stream & Process Mapping
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The Strategos Guide to Value Stream & Process Mapping
Genesis of Manufacturing Strategy
At last, this much anticipated book has been published and provides a much needed breath of fresh air. The Strategos Guide to Value Stream and Process Mapping has helpful tips on facilitating group VSM exercises and helps put VSM in the greater Lean context. With photos and examples of related Lean practices the book focuses on implementing VSM, not just drawing diagrams and graphs. This is the most comprehensive and practical book on the subject to date
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Book - Kaikaku - The Power and Magic of Lean
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Kaikaku - The Power & Magic of Lean
Kai ka ku are Japanese characters meaning a ‘transformation of the mind,’ ‘working with others to achieve radical change,’ and ‘to bring new and vital energy to your organization.’ Norman Bodek brings his vast cross cultural experience in Japanese manufacturing systems to American industry and creates proven results. With his first hand knowledge of Lean Manufacturing origins, Norman Bodek chronicles his introduction to Lean in an easy to read, conversational style text.
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Book - JIT is Flow
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JIT Is Flow
Here is a book, actually a manual in book form, which can be used to drive your lean efforts. Hirano's "5 Pillars of the Visual Workplace" and "JIT Implementation manual" were classics. They contained detailed descriptions of the techniques and clear instructions that could be immediately implemented on the shop floor. However, they were also very prescriptive and not so easy to adapt to all sectors. This book brings out the depth of the thought process behind Hirano's work. The know-why and the know-how that is contained in this book will be extremely useful to every business in today's scenario. The clarity which Hirano brings to each aspect of the transformation to JIT / Lean and the delineation of the principles involved will be invaluable to every leader and manager aiming for business excellence.
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Book - The Idea Generator, Quick & Easy Kaizen
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The Idea Generator - Quick & Easy Kaizen
The book discusses the Kaizen mind set that enables a company to utilize its resources to the fullest by directly involving all of its manpower in the enhancement and improvement of the productivity of its operations. This results not only in increased quality and efficiency, but in heightened employee morale and in markedly improved customer service.
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DVD - 5S Into Action - Visual Workplace Management Video **NEW**
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5S Into Action DVD: Realising the Benefits and Sustaining the results
The best dvd production explaining 5S currently on the market. Professionally written and produced to ensure the key concepts of 5S are communicated to an audience that considers both management and employees. The video is set both in the training room as well as on the shop floor as we take the audience through each stage of the 5S process from Sort through Sustain. During each stage we explain why 5S is done, how to implement 5S and the benefits to the employee. We provide detailed examples of each 5S step and illustrate these with specific video and illustrations for your audience.
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DVD - The Human Side of Lean Manufacturing
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The Human Side of Lean Manufacturing DVD
In this unique Lean Manufacturing video, workers explain how they designed and built their own workcell. They talk about benefits to their company, and the profound improvements in their work life as we follow them in their daily work. These are real people with real stories.
This video shows how the human and technical elements of Lean Manufacturing interact in a complex Socio-Technical System. The results are dramatic and these people know it firsthand. This video is an ideal introduction for the shop floor and gives important insights to supervisors, engineers and managers.
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