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		5S for Operators: 5 Pillars of the Visual Workplace The 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.
		5S for the Office: Organizing the Workplace to Eliminate Waste Although office and administrative activities are usually 60% of the production costs in most manufacturing organizations, these areas often get excluded during Lean initiatives. To achieve Lean, office activities must fully support shop floor manufacturing operations to eliminate waste. The adoption of 5S throughout all office and administrative functions is the first step to increase efficiency.
		20 Keys to Workplace Improvement 0 Keys has helped many manufacturing companies integrate the top manufacturing improvement methods into a coordinated system for drastic and continual improvement in involvement, quality, and productivity. This program provides the strategies necessary to achieve ambitious goals through a five-level scoring system.
		40 Top Tools for Manufacturers: A Guide for Implementing Powerful Improvement Activities We know how important it is for you to have the right tool when you need it. If you're a team leader or facilitator in a manufacturing environment, you've probably been searching a long time for a collection of implementation tools tailored specifically to your needs. Well, look no further.
		5S for Safety Implementation Toolkit 5S for Safety is a preventative safety program that addresses dangerous workplace conditions and solves problems before accidents happen.
		5S for Safety: New Eyes for the Shop Floor Need a way to quickly and easily start a safety program or to reenergize your safety efforts? Poor safety conditions exist in all plants. They are inherent to the manufacturing industry itself. Slippage can occur from water or grease on the floor. Fires can occur from oil or chemical leaks. Mobile equipment can cause accidents of all kinds. Employees are safe and productive only when their work environment is safe. Now you can use the basics of 5S - organization, orderliness, cleanliness, standardized clean-up, and self-discipline - as a simple, proactive and inexpensive way to solve safety problems in the workplace.
		5S for the Office: Organizing the Workplace to Eliminate Waste Although office and administrative activities are usually 60% of the production costs in most manufacturing organizations, these areas often get excluded during Lean initiatives. To achieve Lean, office activities must fully support shop floor manufacturing operations to eliminate waste. The adoption of 5S throughout all office and administrative functions is the first step to increase efficiency.
		5S para Todos: 5 Pilares de la Fábrica Visual Las 5S son el lugar de comienzo para cualquier actividad o programa de mejora en su lugar de trabajo. Aqui esta la clave del exito para cualquier proceso de cambio que quiera usted implementar en la fabricaci?n. Este libro le ayuda a ensenarle a sus operarios las bases de las 5S: organizar,ordenar, asear, limpieza rutinaria y disciplina. Incluye ilustraciones, gu?as de p?gina, resumenes, preguntas y respuestas para asegurar asimilacion de los conceptos.
		5s Pocket Guide This pocket guide is designed to enhance awareness of the principles behind the 5S system and identify the impact the 5S's have on improving efficiency and promoting a safe working environment.
		5S System: An Introduction The 5S System: An Introduction. Need an overview of the 5S System? Need to get an understanding of what is involved, who should participate, and what it will take to get started? The 5S System: An Introduction will answer the most common questions about 5S. Ideal for managerial teams who want to build awareness of the 5S system, this video will show you what sort, set in order, shine, standardize and sustain can mean for your company!
		5S System DVD: Workplace Organization and Standardization The acclaimed 5S System: Workplace Organization and Standardization is now available in DVD. The 5S System DVD is a collaborative effort by the renowned producers of training videos for the manufacturing plant floor: Productivity Press and Tel-A-Train. This collaboration has created the most comprehensive and powerful 5S training tool you'll find anywhere. Now in DVD format, you'll no longer experience interruptions during your training sessions searching, changing, or re-winding tapes. The seven videotapes of the VHS format are now stored in one convenient disk.
		5S System VHS: Workplace Organization and Standardization Imagine a clean, organized workplace; a workplace where every tool, every process, and every expectation is clearly labeled and easily identifiable, a workplace where anyone can understand at a glance what needs to be done in order to achieve excellence. This is the workplace The 5S System can create for you. With a combination of visual control techniques and good old common sense The 5S System will teach your workforce how to seize control of their workplace, how to own their equipment and most importantly, how to foster an environment of continuous improvement on the shop floor. 5S is the basis for any on-the-floor improvement activity. With Productivity's exciting video series, your workforce can follow this step-by-step training program at their own pace and implement 5S in their own target area as they go. With complete introductions to each of the 5S activities their rationale and implementation details, The 5S System will serve as an invaluable resource in your improvement efforts.
		5S Video Facilitator Guide This is the Facilitator's Guide to support team leaders in facilitating a 5S implementation team.
		5S Video Participant Guide This is the Participant Guide that summarizes key concepts from the video, provides reflection exercises for internalizing information as well as worksheets and checksheets to guide participants during implementation work on the floor. This is usually sold with The 5S System: Workplace Organization and Standardization
		A Lean Supply Chain at John Deere DVD This video DVD is about the successful partnership between John Deere in Horicon, Wisconsin and one of its suppliers - the R&B Machining and Grinding Company located in Racine, Wisconsin. It provides an opportunity to take a look inside John Deere's supply chain - find out what changes were required to "learn their supply chain."
		A Revolution in Manufacturing: The SMED System Written by the industrial engineer who developed SMED for Toyota, this book contains hundreds of illustrations and photographs, as well as twelve chapter-length case studies. Here are the most complete and detailed instructions available anywhere for transforming a manufacturing environment to speed up production and make small lot inventories feasible.
		Accelerated Product Development: Combining Lean and Six Sigma for Peak Performance In Accelerated Product Development: Combining Lean and Six Sigma for Peak Performance, Clifford Fiore provides the blueprint for implementing the key elements for improving the product development process. His innovative and powerful work represents the first book to couple the proven concepts of Lean and Six Sigma with the engineering processes of product development. His results, based on proven strategies and methodologies, enable companies to significantly reduce the time necessary to develop new products, dramatically reduce product cost, and improve product quality.
		Advanced Quality Planning: A Commonsense Guide to AQP and APQP Advanced Quality Planning: A Commonsense Guide to AQP and APQP is the first book dedicated to explaining with clarity and detail the total advanced quality planning (AQP) process and how to set quality planning in the framework of a business strategy. The book provides a close look at the basic and advanced concepts of AQP so that both the novice and experienced user will be able to apply AQP appropriately and effectively. In addition, you will learn the "Big Three" automotive companies' required use of Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), a specialized version of AQP that emphasized the product orientation of quality. A clear itemized list of Chrysler, GM, Ford, and Tier I suppliers requirements is included, illustrating what they would like to see implemented in their suppliers' processes.
		Andy & Me: Crisis and Transformation on the Lean Journey Based on the author's personal experience with Toyota senseis and with companies in the midst of great change, Andy & Me is a business novel set in a failing New Jersey auto plant focusing on the tribulations of Tom Pappas, the plant manager. The situations, characters and plant "politics" will ring true with many readers.
		Autonomous Maintenance DVD: Shopfloor TPM Implementation With Autonomous Maintenance video training series, you'll learn how to unleash the hidden potential on your shopfloor and dramatically lower your production costs.
		Autonomous Maintenance for Operators TPM leads to soaring productivity when your operators are positively and energetically involved in the maintenance of their own equipment. Autonomous Maintenance for Operators teaches specific autonomous maintenance activities.
		Autonomous Maintenance in Seven Steps: Implementing TPM on the Shop Floor Autonomous maintenance is an especially important pillar of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) because it enlists the intelligence and skills of the people who are most familiar with factory machines-- equipment operators. Operators learn the maintenance skills they need to know through a seven-step autonomous maintenance program. Most companies in the West stop after implementing the first few steps and never realize the full benefits of autonomous maintenance. This book contains comprehensive coverage of all seven steps--not just the first three or four.
		The Basics of FMEA Based on requirements established by the big-three automakers, The Basics of FMEA introduces work teams to this valuable tool. Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) helps prevent failures, defects, and errors, because the tool identifies special causes of variation before they occur. This is valuable in any quality control or continuous improvement program and the reason that the automotive industry's QS-9000 standard requires their use.
		The Basics of Process Mapping This book contains a case study of both levels of process mapping and guidelines for when to use each type. It also explains the relationship of process mapping to flowcharting. Use it as a wonderful hands-on team resource, a training supplement, and a reference.
		The Basics of Quality Auditing As the latest addition to "The Basics" Series, The Basics of Quality Auditing provides an inexpensive and easy-to-follow WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, WHY and HOW format that is perfect for training. It discusses the four main questions all audits should answer: Is there a procedure? Is the procedure being followed? Does the procedure meet the needs of the system? and What must be changed or improved to increase the output quality?
		The Basics of Reliability The Basics of Reliability is a handy source for comprehending reliability concepts, interpreting reliability requirements, and understanding reliability reports.
		Becoming Lean: Inside Stories of U.S. Manufacturers What is Lean? Pure and simple, lean is reducing the time from customer order to manufacturing by eliminating non-value-added waste in the production stream. The ideal of a lean system is one-piece flow, because a lean manufacturer is continuously improving. Most other books on lean management focus on technical methods and offer a picture of how a lean system should look like. Other books provide snapshots of companies before and after lean was implemented.
		Benchmarking: The Search for Industry Best Practices that Lead to Superior Performance This groundbreaking reference is for middle managers in industry (in marketing, manufacturing, administrative and support, finance, and personal functions), not-for-profit organizations and government agencies, as well as quality improvement projects. Detailed examples show you how to relate benchmarking to your own circumstances. Reference guides help you get started.
		Beyond the Balanced Scorecard: Improving Business Intelligence with Analytics The vast majority of companies use some form of balanced scorecard (performance measures), yet recent research suggests that most scorecards are based on singular, unsophisticated measurements, providing flawed data on the state of the organization.
		Breaking the Cost Barrier: A Proven Approach to Managing & Implementing Lean Manufacturing While much has been written about what "lean production" techniques are, Breaking the Cost Barrier is the first book to explain how to effectively put lean techniques into place. It presents the big picture on how you can understand and adopt the industry-proven techniques used in the lean production environment - and coordinate the best into one powerhouse variation management program. Case studies and examples showcase how these techniques can be applied to control production variability across industries and requirements.
		Breakthrough Kaizen Events DVD This video DVD documents the kaizen event process, and what it takes to make it successful. You will see an actual kaizen event at Lantech Corporation. A total of over 100 improvements were completed during this event. Several new devices are demonstrated so the viewer can understand how the changes improved the process. See how they use a kaizen newspaper to keep everyone informed of any changes that are being made.
		Building Organizational Fitness: Management Methodology for Transformation and Strategic Advantage Undoubtedly, the most urgent task for companies today is to take a hard look at the future. To remain competitive, management must nurture a strong capability for self development and a strong corporate culture, both of which form part of the foundation for improvement. But simply understanding management techniques doesn't mean you know how to use them. You need the tools and technologies for implementation.
		CEDAC: A Tool for Continuous Systematic Improvement When you're trying to improve quality and productivity, it's essential to target the right problems, get the right people involved in solving them, and make sure the solutions work. CEDAC will help you do all three. CEDAC, or Cause-and-Effect Diagram with the Addition of Cards, is a modification of the "fishbone diagram," a standard QC tool. One of the most powerful, yet simple problem solving methods to come out of Japan (Fukuda won a Deming Prize for developing it), CEDAC actually encompasses a whole cluster of tools for continuous systematic improvement.
		Cellular Manufacturing Learning Package: One-Piece Flow for Work Teams Learning Package This learning package introduces production teams to basic cellular manufacturing and teamwork concepts and orients them for participating in the design of a new production cell.
		Cellular Manufacturing: One-Piece Flow for Workteams Productivity's Shopfloor Series books offer a simple, cost-effective approach for building basic knowledge about key manufacturing improvement topics. Cellular Manufacturing: One-Piece Flow for Workteams introduces production teams to basic cellular manufacturing and teamwork concepts and orients them for participating in the design of a new production cell. Use this book to get everyone on board to reduce lead time, work-in-process inventory, and other profit-draining wastes.
		The Complete Lean Enterprise: Value Stream Mapping for Administrative and Office Processes Most lean initiatives conducted by manufacturers are focused mostly on shop-floor activities — mapping the value stream of raw material to the shop-floor customer. Much of the untapped potential for productivity improvements lies, however, in non-production areas — where the value stream is administrative (i.e., "order to cash"). These "office" value streams directly support the daily production needs of an enterprise.
		Concurrent Engineering: Shortening Lead Times, Raising Quality, and Lowering Costs By simultaneously examining the concerns of design, production, purchasing, finance, and marketing from the very first stages of product planning, concurrent engineering makes doing it right the first time the rule instead of the exception. This should be the first book managers read when they are ready to eliminate waste in the product development process.
		Creating Continuous Flow: An Action Guide for Managers, Engineers & Production Associates Creating Continuous Flow narrows the focus of Learning to See from the door-to-door value stream perspective to achieving true continuous flow at your critical pacemaker processes.
		Creating Lean Corporations: Reengineering from the Bottom Up to Eliminate Waste Many companies applying lean use a top-down approach - a person or small group defines the business process in general terms and progressively expands it into more detailed elements. This method fails when the person or small group defining the process lacks the detailed knowledge of the tasks involved to sequence them correctly. Creating Lean Corporations, by Jeffrey Morgan, however, utilizes a bottom-up approach in which the employees who perform the tasks are empowered to create and manage their own portions of the business process. Each task is defined using a task model that indicates the input-output relationships between tasks -- it dictates the sequence that the tasks should be performed within the business process. This approach is essential for creating and improving business processes that are large and complex but still efficient.
		Creating Mixed Model Value Streams: Practical Lean Techniques for Building to Demand Creating Mixed Model Value Streams is the new textbook for implementing lean in complex environments. When faced with complex or unique situations companies often disregard lean principles and fall back on previous practices. In this book, Kevin Duggan describes the lean techniques that can be used when faced with difficult situations such as high product mix, scheduling problems, shared resources, and unstable customer demand. This book will give you the knowledge to guide your company through these tough obstacles and attain bottom line results!
		Creating Your Lean Future State: How to Move from Seeing to Doing In Creating Your Lean Future State: How to Move from Seeing to Doing, Tom Luyster and Don Tapping detail the implementation of lean after the creation of current and future state maps. Follow the case study of a manufacturing company that has already created a Future State Map, as the authors show step-by-step how to focus on key information, visually manage product flow, and level production.
		Custom Kanban: Designing the System to Meet the Needs of Your Environment In Custom Kanban: Designing the System to Meet the Needs of Your Environment, Raymond Louis helps you to develop and implement a correct and successful kanban system by selecting appropriate kanban techniques based on the specific environmental factors and needs of your company.
		Developing a Lean Workforce: A Guide for Human Resources, Plant Managers, and Lean Coordinators Changing an organization from a mass manufacturing environment to a lean environment is significant and affects all levels of the company if the implementation is done correctly. Many times, however, lean implementers become so involved with the nuts and bolts of lean implementation that the "people" side of the business is neglected.
		DOE Simplified: Practical Tools for Effective Experimentation In DOE Simplified - a comprehensive new introductory text geared towards readers with minimal statistical background - the authors take a fresh and lively approach to learning the fundamentals.
		Easier, Simpler, Faster: Systems Strategy for Lean IT To enhance and sustain its lean journey, a company must implement information systems that fully support and enhance the lean initiative. In Easier, Simpler, Faster: Systems Strategy for Lean IT, Jean Cunningham and Duane Jones introduce a case study of an actual lean implementation involving an IT system of a mid-size manufacturer, highlighting the IT issues that they faced during their lean transformation.
		Eaton Lean System: An Interactive Introduction to Lean Manufacturing Principles Teaming up with the Eaton Corporation, Productivity Press is proud to bring you a comprehensive introduction to lean: The Eaton Lean System. Here is a unique training package with all of the features you've been asking for. Integrating the latest in interactivity with informative and powerful video presentations, this innovative software involves the user at every level, making the fundamental concepts of lean accessible, interesting and fun!
		Eliminating Minor Stoppages on Automated Lines Stoppages of automated equipment lines adversely affect productivity, cost, and lead time. Such losses make decreasing the number of stoppages a crucial element of TPM.
		Equalized & Synchronized Production: The High-Mix Manufacturing System that Moves Beyond JIT ESP is a production management and manufacturing improvement system targeted for supplier companies or any companies that deal with a variety of products as well as multiple customers. ESP enables suppliers to meet the requirements of their buyers' Just-In-Time (JIT) ordering systems through wide-variety, small-lot production, while also making their own production activities as efficient as possible.
		Evolution of Manufacturing Systems at Toyota Through original field studies, historical research, and statistical analyses, this book shows how the Toyota Motor Corporation built - and continues to build - distinctive capabilities in production, product development, and supplier management as part of a total system. Fujimoto reinterprets the resource-capability view of the firm and uses an evolutionary perspective to show how an effective total manufacturing system creates sustainable competitive advantages. Scholars and students of strategy, operations, and technology management, as well as practitioners in the automobile industry, will find The Evolution of a Manufacturing System at Toyota insightful and informative.
		Fast Track to Waste-Free Manufacturing on Audio Cassette: Straight Talk from a Plant Manager Manufacturing in the United States is currently undergoing a major transition. Most manufacturers still do not see that their enemy is not the competition but rather their own outdated system of production. Batch, or mass, manufacturing is still the preferred system of production for most U.S.-based industry. To survive and become globally competitive, manufacturers will have to put aside old paradigms and completely change their existing system of production. In Fast Track, John Davis details a new and proven system called Waste-Free Manufacturing (WFM) that rapidly deploys the lean process.
		Fast Track to Waste-Free Manufacturing on Audio Cassette: Straight Talk from a Plant Manager Manufacturing in the United States is currently undergoing a major transition. Most manufacturers still do not see that their enemy is not the competition but rather their own outdated system of production. Batch, or mass, manufacturing is still the preferred system of production for most U.S.-based industry. To survive and become globally competitive, manufacturers will have to put aside old paradigms and completely change their existing system of production. In Fast Track, John Davis details a new and proven system called Waste-Free Manufacturing (WFM) that rapidly deploys the lean process.
		Fast Track to Waste-Free Manufacturing: Straight Talk from a Plant Manager Manufacturing in the United States is currently undergoing a major transition, yet large numbers of manufacturers simply do not recognize what it is all about. Many still operate under out dated manufacturing practices and do not see that the enemy is not the competition, but rather their own system of production. Batch, or mass manufacturing is still the preferred system of production for most U.S.-based industry. But to survive, let alone become globally competitive, companies will have to put aside their old mass manufacturing paradigms and completely change their entire production system.
		Feedback Toolkit: 16 Tools for Better Communication in the Workplace In companies striving to reduce hierarchy and foster trust and responsible participation, good feedback can be as important as sophisticated computer technology in enabling effective teamwork. Used well, feedback can motivate people to their highest level of performance.
		Focused Equipment Improvement for TPM Teams As distinguished from autonomous maintenance, where the main goal is to restore basic conditions of cleanliness, lubrication, and proper fastening to prevent accelerated deterioration, FEI looks at specific losses or design weaknesses that everyone previously thought they just had to live with. Once your TPM operator teams are progressing with their daily autonomous maintenance activities, you will want to take the next advanced step in TPM training with this book.
		Four Practical Revolutions in Management: Systems for Creating Unique Organizational Capability In Four Practical Revolutions in Management: Systems for Creating Unique Organizational Capability, authors Shoji Shiba and David Walden significantly revise their classic text on leading management systems -- A New American TQM. This book is a comprehensive approach to business management that goes beyond business operations improvement.
		Freedom From Command and Control: Rethinking Management for Lean Service Freedom from Command and Control: Rethinking Management for Lean Service, by John Seddon, applies the Toyota Production System (TPS) to service organizations. It explains how the traditional command-and-control management paradigm of top-down decision making has created high costs and poor service quality -- managers are left detached from their employees and remote from their operations. Seddon demonstrates that a change in management thinking, one from decision making based on activity-related measures (such as budgets, standards, and targets) to purpose-related measures (such as putting customers first and improving services) can help managers reconnect with their operations, see the waste caused by the current organization design, and exploit opportunities for improvement.
		Get It, Set It, Move It, Prove It: 60 Ways To Get Real Results In Your Organization If you seek to produce measurable results in your organization, this book is for you. It provides practical and useful methods that you can use immediately and points out habits you should avoid. Get It, Set It, Move It, Prove It is about getting real results and being able to prove them.
		Handbook of Strategies and Tools for the Learning Company Many books on management improvement focus on the newest fads without providing an understanding of the whole system that is being affected by the new approach. Even the concept of a learning organization has been reduced by many to a meaningless fad. Here, however, we comprehend the substance of that exciting new wave of management thought. This is a management book that goes beyond the current fads to the very core of what it means to be a learning company. To truly learn, a company must use a variety of techniques and approaches. This book combines the best of management strategies, from the tried and true techniques to new innovations into a complete and powerful management tool.
		Henry Ford's Lean Vision: Enduring Principles from the First Ford Motor Plant In Henry Ford's Lean Vision, William A. Levinson draws from Henry Ford's writings, the procedures in his factories, and historical anecdotes about the birth of lean in Japan to show that the philosophy that revolutionized Japanese manufacturing was the same philosophy that grew the Ford Motor Company into a global powerhouse -- and made the United States the wealthiest and most powerful nation on earth. Levinson reveals how Ford was ahead of other modern visionaries and discusses why the very ideas that made his company such a success were abandoned in his own country, and why they finally found acceptance in Japan.
		Hoshin Kanri (Spanish): Direccion y planificacion de empresas y despliegue de politicas Hoshin significa "metal brillante" y tambien "compas". Kanri siginifica "direccion". El proceso hoshin kanri le ayuda, paso por paso, a planificar, revisar, medir y administrar el proceso de cambio en su lugar de trabajo. Utilizando este sistema usted podra manejar efectivamente la vision, proposito y direccion a largo plazo de su empresa. Este libro profundiza en el examen de la implantaci?n del hoshin kanri, incluyendo diversos estudios de casos escritos por companias que lo practican.
		Hoshin Kanri for the Lean Enterprise: Developing Competitive Capabilities and Managing Profit Hoshin Kanri for the Lean Enterprise, by Tom Jackson, explains how you can implement, identify and manage the critical relationships among your markets, design characteristics, production systems, and personnel to satisfy your customers and beat your competition.
		Hoshin Kanri: Policy Deployment for Successful TQM This book is a compilation of examples of policy deployment and demonstrates how company vision is converted into individual responsibility. It contains practical guidelines, 150 charts and diagrams, and five case studies that illustrate the procedures of Hoshin Kanri. The six steps to advanced process planning are reviewed and include: a five-year vision; one-year plan; deployment to departments; execution; monthly audit; and annual audit.
		Identifying Waste on the Shopfloor Productivity's Shopfloor Series books offer a simple, cost-effective approach for building basic knowledge about key manufacturing improvement topics. Identifying Waste on the Shopfloor and all our Shopfloor Series books include innovative instructional features that are the signature of the Shopfloor Series. The goal: to place powerful and proven improvement tools in the hands of your entire workforce.
		Implantación de un Sistema Lean Un sistema de direccion "lean," o esbelto, permite alinear e integrar la planificacion del desarrollo estrategico a largo plazo con las metas diarias de mejora para ayudar a que su empresa este orientada al cliente, sea flexible, y este lista para enfrentar los desafios de nuestra epoca. En este libro Tom Jackson le ofrece un metodo practico para lograr la administraci?n esbelta. El enfoque esta basado en la mejora continua, gestion inter-funcional y participaccion de los empleados. El sistema completo esta apoyado por documentos e impresos que gu?an al lector a conectar la direccion estrategica con las demas actividades que hacen real la vision corporativa. Con este libro, usted podra:
		Implementing a Lean Management System Based on hoshin management, the Japanese strategic planning method used by top managers for driving TQM throughout an organization, Lean Management is about deploying vision, strategy, and policy at all levels of daily activity. It is an eminently practical methodology emerging out of the implementation of continuous improvement methods and employee involvement. The key tools in the text build on the knowledge of the worker, multi-tasking, and an understanding of the role and responsibilities of the new lean manufacturer.
		Just-in-Time for Operators Are you ready to implement a just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing program but need some help orienting employees to the power of JIT? Here is a concise and practical guide to introduce equipment operators, assembly workers, and other frontline employees to the basic concepts, techniques, and benefits of JIT practices. Like all our Shopfloor Series books, Just-in-Time for Operators presents concepts and tools in simple and accessible language. The book includes ample illustrations and examples to explain basic JIT concepts and some of the changes people may encounter in a JIT implementation.
		Kaizen for the Shopfloor The philosophy of kaizen, which simply means continuous improvement, is the starting place for all lean production improvements. Kaizen events are opportunities to make focused changes in the workplace. Kaizen for the Shopfloor takes you through the critical steps in conducting a very effective kaizen event - one that is well planned, well implemented, and well documented. As the newest addition to the Shingo Prize Winning Shopfloor Series, Kaizen for the Shopfloor distills the complexities of jumpstarting lean processes into an easily accessible format for the frontline employees who make lean possible
		Kaizen for the Shopfloor Learning Package The kaizen learning package includes the following: Leader's Guide; 5 copies of Kaizen for the Shopfloor; one laminated job aid, Steps for Conducting a Kaizen Event; one copy of the Jeffrey K Liker's classic book, Becoming Lean: Inside Stories of U.S. Manufactures; and additional presentation materials on a CD.
		Kaizen Teian 1: Developing Systems for Continuous Improvement Through Employee Suggestions aizen teian -- the Japanese-style proposal system for continuous improvement -- is the most direct and effective method for channeling employees' creative energies and hands-on insight. This book is the first in a new three-volume set that brings the management, guidance, and development of kaizen teian systems into perfect focus. This first volume explains many aspects of running a proposal program on a day-to-day basis and provides cartoon examples of successful kaizen teian programs in four major Japanese organizations. This concise reference outlines the policies that support a "bottom-up" system of innovation and defines the three main objectives of kaizen teian: to build participation, develop individuals' skills, and achieve higher profits.
		Kaizen Teian 2: Directrices para la Mejora Continua a Traves de las Sugerencias de los Empleados Si leyo y disfruto de El Libro de las Ideas, estos libros son el proximo paso! Nuestro trabajo puede brindarnos la seguridad fisica y el sentido de integraci?n social que Maslow indico como una de nuestras necesidades basicas. Sin embargo, para satisfacer nuestras mas elevadas necesidades de reconocimiento y auto-desarrollo, necesitamos compartir nuestra creatividad e inteligencia. Un sistema participativo de sugerencias facilita oportunidades creativas a lo largo de toda la vida laboral. En estos libros encontrara ayuda concreta para directivos y mandos intermedios encargados de gu?ar sistemas de sugerencias. La intencion es dotar a los directivos con los medios y herramientas necesarios para dirigir y ensenar a los empleados lo que es y significa el kaizen teian.
		Kaizen Teian 2: Guiding Continuous Improvement Through Employee Suggestions Before you can institute a successful kaizen teian program, you must have a firm understanding of its underlying principles and rules. This book concentrates on making those principles clear and focuses on the importance of consistently implementing proposals. Actual examples of implemented proposals from five leading Japanese companies illustrate the principles described, and numerous figures and case studies add clarity throughout. If you are ready to tap into the full potential of your work force, this book will help you to train them to seek out new and ever better ways to do their work.
		Kanban for the Shopfloor Learning Package Topics include: The difference between kanban and conventional ordering systems. Types of kanbans. Six rules for optimizing a kanban system. How to use line balancing and load leveling in regards to takt time and kanban. When and how to circulate kanban cards. How to reduce the number of kanbans. Using kanban as a visual system. The kanban learning package includes the following:
		Kanban y JIT en Toyota Este libro ofrece una introducci?n clara y completa al "Just-in-Time" y sigue siendo uno de nuestros ?xitos de mayor venta. El texto esta basado en seminarios dictados por Taichi Ohno, creador del Just-in-Time para entrenar a los suplidores de Toyota. onden, una autoridad en cuanto al sistema de producci?n de Toyota.)
		Kanban Systems DVD This video DVD will introduce you to the basics concepts of kanban, demonstrate what kanban systems are available, how they work, and where they will be successful. Kanban Systems shows you how lean technique controls inventory to better respond to customer demands. A good kanban system is also able to perform instruction, help you practice self-control, promote visual control, and reduce managerial and inventory costs.
		Keeping Score: Using the Right Metrics to Drive World Class Performance Keeping Score: Using the Right Metrics to Drive World-Class Performance ensures that you look at the right measurements. Following a Baldrige approach, Mark Graham Brown shows you how to evaluate your current approach to measurement and redesign inadequate metrics and systems used to collect and report data. He contends that your measurements must focus on the past, present, and future and be based on the needs of customers, shareholders, and employees - pinpointing the vital few key measures is the key to success
		Leading the Lean Initiative: Straight Talk on Cultivating Support and Buy-in Leading the Lean Initiative: Straight Talk on Cultivating Support and Buy-in shows you how to lead a lean effort and effectively manage change. It is a practical manual for the new manager. Though directed at plant managers, and specifically those new to their jobs, this book benefits anyone taking on a leadership role. Davis provides complete direction on the crucial first steps and advise on competently responding to the "unknown and unexpected."
		The Lean Office: Collected Practices and Cases The Lean Office: Collected Practices and Cases is a compilation of articles previously published in our monthly newsletter, Lean Manufacturing Advisor. These articles discuss lean implementations in non-manufacturing operations, from design to processing invoices to customer service. Most articles are written in the form of case studies.
		Lean Logistics: The Nuts and Bolts of Delivering Materials and Goods Are your warehouses full while production is stopped by shortages? Do you know what you have, and when the next replenishments will come? Do your customers complain that your lead times are too long and that your deliveries are late? Does the volume of your logistics activity vary erratically?
		Lean Assembly: The Nuts and Bolts of Making Assembly Operations Flow Characterizing the demand in terms of volume by product and product family, component consumption, seasonal variability and life cycle. Matching the physical structure of the shop floor to the demand with the goal of approaching takt-driven production as closely as possible. Working out the details of assembly tasks station by station, including station sizing, tooling, fixturing, operator instructions, part presentation, conveyance between stations, and the geometry of assembly lines as a whole.
		Lean Culture: Collected Practices and Cases Lean Culture: Collected Practices and Cases provides a variety of case studies taken from articles previously published in Lean Manufacturer Advisor: the monthly newsletter by Productivity Press. All focus on cultural issues, ranging from the role of top management, to training and development of workers and managers, to building buy-in and to sustaining the culture.
		Lean Software Strategies: Proven Techniques for Managers and Developers Lean production, which has radically benefited traditional manufacturing, can greatly improve the software industry with similar methods and results. This transformation is possible because the same overarching principles that apply in other industries work equally well in software development. The software industry follows the same industrial concepts of production as those applied in manufacturing; however, the software industry perceives itself as being fundamentally different and has largely ignored what other industries have gained through the application of lean techniques.
		Lean Supply Chain: Collected Practices and Cases Applying lean to the supply chain is a hot topic. While lean operations can produce significant benefits to an organization, the greatest benefits will not be realized unless lean is extended beyond the organization to involve both suppliers and customers.
		Lean Supply Chain Management: A Handbook for Strategic Procurement Unlike other strategic procurement guides, Lean Supply Chain Management considers an organization's "business condition" as a contributing factor in the development of a strategic procurement strategy. That is, rather than taking a "one-size fits all" approach, the author's more individualized approach illustrates techniques specific to organizations operating in a "standard" environment or "crisis" environment. In addition, Lean Supply Chain Management is the only book that incorporates lean methodology as the key factor in its supply chain strategies.
		Learning to See: Value Stream Mapping to Add Value and Eliminate Much more important, these simple maps - often drawn on scrap paper - showed where steps could be eliminated, flows smoothed, and pull systems introduced in order to create a truly lean value stream for each product family.
		LeanSpeak: The Productivity Business Improvement Dictionary This dictionary, specific to lean business processes, contains over 500 terms used in lean management and manufacturing. Easy to access, accurate, and comprehensive, LeanSpeak will become the desktop tool of choice for lean manufacturing practitioners, from the shop floor to the corner office.
		Learning Organizations: Developing Cultures for Tomorrow's Workplace Learning Organizations: Developing Cultures for Tomorrow's Workplace contains essays by thirty-nine of the most respected practitioners and scholars of this topic. This definitive collection of essays is rich in concept and theory as well as application and example.
		Make No Mistake!: An Outcome-Based Approach to Mistake Proofing With C. Martin Hinckley's new book Make No Mistake! An Outcome Based Approach to Mistake-Proofing, that vision can become a reality. If you work for a company that emphasizes traditional quality control methods, it's unlikely that you've seen defects eliminated despite your substantial efforts. Make No Mistake! clarifies the reasons why such traditional methods fail and shows how world-class quality can be achieved at a minimal cost through mistake-proofing — the practice of controlling virtually every source of potential errors. As the author states, "The great value of mistake-proofing is that, independent of the cause, psychological factor, production stage, or potential consequences, it blocks or warns about an undesired outcome at a point in the process when the consequences can be minimized."
		Manual para la Implantación del "Just in Time": Guia Completa para la fabricación Just in Time La edicion de este manual tipo enciclopedico marca un momento de triunfo y oportunidad para los fabricantes occidentales. Por primera vez existe una fuente abarcadora y completa sobre el justo a tiempo que le permite contestar todas las preguntas relacionadas al JIT y a prever todo problema de manufactura. Aqui encontrara los procedimientos JIT mas detallados y extensos que jamas se hayan documentado. Examina el concepto filosofico del JIT, y los sistemas, tecnicas y herramientas que le ayudaran a ponerlo en practica en cualquier tipo de operacion de fabricaci?n. Mas de 1,000 p?ginas, cientos de ilustraciones, y muestras de cada uno de los formularios esenciales para administrar el JIT.
		Manufacturing Strategy, 2nd Edition: How to Formulate and Implement a Winning Plan In Manufacturing Strategy: How to Formulate and Implement a Winning Plan, 2nd Edition, John Miltenburg offers a sensible and systematic method to: (1) evaluate domestic and foreign factories and international manufacturing and (2) plan the appropriate manufacturing strategy to be first in the market.
		Maximizing Profit: How to Measure the Financial Impact of Manufacturing Decisions Maximizing Profit is unique in its coverage of the financial accounting measures that pertain to the profitability of advanced manufacturing operations. It provides actionable techniques to help managers assess their current practices and employ new ways of thinking about the business plan.
		Mistake-Proofing for Operators Learning Package The Zero Quality control system (ZQC) is a mistake-proofing approach that prevents defects by monitoring process conditions at the source and correcting errors that would cause defects. In this breakthrough approach, mistake-proofing devices called poka-yoke are used to check and give feedback about each product or operation in the process, not just a sample. This package helps you begin the education process by establishing the foundation to reach this goal: placing powerful and proven improvement tools such as ZQC and mistake-proofing in the hands of your company's entire workforce. A strong complement to your training on mistake-proofing.
		Mistake-Proofing for Operators: The ZQC System The Zero Quality Control System (ZQC) is a mistake-proofing approach that prevents defects by monitoring processing conditions at the source and correcting errors that cause defects. Since it is human nature to make mistakes, ZQC does not blame people for errors, but instead finds ways to keep errors from becoming defects. In this breakthrough approach, mistake-proofing devices called poka-yoke are used to check and give feedback about each product or operation in the process, not just a sample. This book introduces operators and assembly workers to the basic methodology of ZQC in an easy-to-read format that covers all aspects of this important manufacturing improvement strategy.
		Modern Approaches to Manufacturing Improvement: The Shingo System Here's the quickest and most inexpensive way to learn about the pioneering work of Shigeo Shingo, co-creator (with Taiichi Ohno) of just-in-time. It's an introductory book containing excerpts of five of his classic books as well as an excellent introduction by Professor Robinson.
		Non-Stock Production: The Shingo System of Continuous Improvement
		OEE for Operators: Overall Equipment Effectiveness Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is a crucial measure in TPM that tells you how well your equipment is running. It links three elements in one percentage: the time the machine is actually running, the quantity of products the machine is turning out, and the quantity of good output.
		One-Piece Flow (p): Cell Design for Transforming the Production Process Sekine first examines the basic principles of process flow building, then offers detailed case studies of how various industries designed unique one-piece flow systems (parallel, L-shaped, and U-shaped floor plans) to meet their particular needs. One-Piece Flow describes each step in the process of establishing one-piece flow and: (1) provides ample "test your skills" worksheets that guide you through the solution of problems, and (2) includes over 300 illustrations and 14 single-page case studies that show how to cut assembly personnel in various industries.
		One-Point Lessons: Rapid Transfer of Best Practices for the Shop Floor The first learning module covers the important principles of one-point lessons. The second module uses a case study based on establishing a preventive maintenance system for equipment being used by a grounds-keeping crew. Learners work together in small groups to develop a one-point lesson. The third module has learners creating one-point lessons based on conditions in their own work.
		P-M Analysis: An Advanced Step in TPM Implementation n this large-format implementation manual, TPM experts explain P-M Analysis. (A methodology that makes zero losses a reality in your TPM program.) P-M Analysis is designed to help your TPM teams analyze and eliminate chronic problems that have been neglected or unresolved in the past.
		Pull Production for the Shopfloor Pull Production for the Shopfloor introduces production teams and managers to basic pull production concepts, enabling them to begin understanding, planning, and implementing this lean tool. Use this book to get everyone on board to reduce work in process inventory, lead-time, and other profit-draining expenses. This book will enable plant managers to explain and thereby get support the support they need from higher management for their pull implementation efforts.
		Poka-Yoke: Improving Product Quality by Preventing Defects If your goal is 100% zero defects, here is the book for you — a compl