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Lean Thinkers' Library answers your questions
about a lean transformation by putting a repository of
indispensable lean knowledge on one shelf — plus it saves you
money. You get:
The
Gold Mine - our first lean novel deftly weaves together the
technical and human pieces of implementing lean manufacturing in an
engaging story that readers will find both compelling and
instructive. The Gold Mine presents all the key lean
principles, ranging from well-known ideas such as pull and flow, to
lesser-known yet equally important principles such as jidoka and
heijunka. The book also reveals lean as a system to show how the
principles are interrelated and how they lead to useful tools such
as kanban or 5S. The principles are explained in the context of a
realistic human story about managers and employees struggling to
apply these tools and ideas in a successful turnaround.
A Leader’s Study
Guide to the Gold Mine – a guide for individual readers and
lean leaders and their management teams. It’s designed to make
The Gold Mine a book that can be read and discussed, thereby
making it a catalyst for organizational change. In the absence of a
skilled sensei to guide in lean transformation, this guide to
The Gold Mine offers helpful chapter summaries, important
discussion points, and additional recommended resources for
readers.
Lean
Thinking (expanded 2nd edition) — breaks down the concepts
of lean into real nuts-and-bolts language. It explains the benefits
of a lean business system and offers actionable advice so you can
champion a lean transformation. Written in a straightforward style,
the book describes lean’s main elements, tools, and thought
processes, gives specific manufacturing examples from a variety of
industries, explores the common obstacles, and offers an Action
Plan to help you develop and implement the lean transformation.
Lean
Solutions - the groundbreaking follow-up to Lean
Thinking, written in the same clear, accessible language and
style. It focuses on the producer-consumer relationship and the
challenge of providing consumers with exactly what they want,
eliminating any wasted time and energy in the process. Using
examples from a wide range of companies, Womack and Jones
deconstruct the broken producer-consumer model and demonstrate how
to repair it.
Lean
Lexicon — provides definitions, examples, and lots of
helpful illustrations to clarify the special language lean thinkers
use — and sometimes confuse. Developed from a customer survey of
the Lean Community about what concepts and terms were most
confusing, the Lexicon includes abundant illustrations and
examples. Unlike most other business glossaries in print or online,
the Lexicon is focused exclusively on lean thinking and lean
production.
Learning to
See — the first of LEI’s prize-winning workbooks, it
explains in plain language how to implement key elements of a lean
business system. Written by subject matter experts, and generously
illustrated, the workbooks contain step-by-step methodologies for
implementation, complete with the necessary formulas and forms.
Learning to See shows that the proper place to start the
lean transformation is with the value stream for each product
family within your facilities. Value-stream mapping identifies the
root causes of waste and gives managers and executives a picture of
the entire production process, including value and nonvalue-adding
activities, so they can prioritize improvement actions.
Seeing
the Whole
— expands the value-stream map beyond facility walls. It
explains how to use the macro mapping tool to identify and remove
waste along an extended value stream from raw materials to end
customer. The workbook uses a realistic example, showing how four
firms sharing a value stream can create a win-win-win-win future in
which everyone, including the end consumer, is better
off.
Creating
Continuous Flow — provides step-by-step instructions
for eliminating waste and creating continuous flow at the process
level, especially at your critical “pacemaker” cells or lines. The
workbook offers a practical methodology for gaining and sustaining
the full benefits of cellularization.
Making
Materials Flow — explains in new detail how to
supply purchased materials to cells and lines in order to support
continuous flow. Key elements include the Plan for Every Part,
developing a central supermarket, creating timed delivery routes,
implementing pull signals, and sustaining and improving the
system.
Creating Level
Pull—using a realistic example company, the workbook
shows readers how to make the transition to a robust pull system,
including what items to use in finished-goods inventory, what items
to make to stock, how to buffer the system against instability, how
to achieve true end-to-end pull, how to schedule batch processes,
and how to level the production schedule to meet the variations in
demand with minimum inventories, capital costs, manpower, and
production lead time. This unique workbook helps you take a
step toward “system kaizen,” a concept that is not yet well
understood outside of Toyota.
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