Recommended books
The following books provide excellent information on Lean Manufacturin and continuous improvement tools:
THE OFFICE THAT GROWS YOUR BUSINESS - Institute For Operational Exellence
THE SIX SIGMA WAY: HOW GE, MOTOROLA AND OTHER COMPANIES ARE HONING THEIR PERFORMANCE/ Peter S. Pande, Robert P. Neuman, Roland R. Cavanagh / McGraw - Hill / New York 2000
LEARNING TO SEE - VALUE STREAM MAPPING TO CREATE VALUE AND ELIMINATE MUDA Mike Rother and John Shook / The Lean Enterprise Institute 1999
Autonomous Maintenance in Seven Steps : Implementing Tpm on the Shop Floor Masaji Tajiri / Productivity Press 1999
THE MACHINE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD : HOW JAPAN'S SECRET WEAPON IN THE GLOBAL AUTO WARS WILL REVOLUTIONIZE WESTERN INDUSTRY James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, Daniel Roos / Harper Perennial 1991
LEAN THINKING : BANISH WASTE AND CREATE WEALTH IN YOUR CORPORATION James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones / Simon & Schuster 1996
GEMBA KAIZEN : A COMMONSENSE LOW-COST APPROACH TO MANAGEMENT Masaaki Imai / McGraw-Hill 1997
TODAY AND TOMORROW Henry Ford and Samuel Crowther / Productivity Press 1988
THE GOAL : A PROCESS OF ONGOING IMPROVEMENT Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox / North River Press 1986
POKA-YOKE : IMPROVING PRODUCT QUALITY BY PREVENTING DEFECTS edited by Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, Ltd. / Productivity Press 1988
REENGINEERING THE CORPORATION : A MANIFESTO FOR BUSINESS REVOLUTION Michael Hammer and James Champy / HarperBusiness 1993
A REVOLUTION IN MANUFACTURING : THE SMED SYSTEM Shigeo Shingo / Productivity Press 1985
ZERO QUALITY CONTROL : SOURCE INSPECTION AND THE POKA-YOKE SYSTEM Shigeo Shingo / Productivity Press 1986
WHO MOVED MY CHEESE? AN AMAZING WAY TO DEAL WITH CHANGE IN YOUR WORK AND IN YOUR LIFE Spencer Johnson and Kenneth H. Blanchard / Putnam Pub Group 1998
Links
The Northwest Lean Manufacturing Network - an excellent discussion group
Lean Enterprise Institute - good source of books
The Association for Manufacturing Excellence -excellent video tapes
The Society of Manufacturing Engineers - video tapes