Recommended books
The following books provide excellent information on Lean Manufacturing and continuous improvement tools. Links to
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
LEARNING TO SEE - VALUE STREAM MAPPING TO CREATE VALUE AND ELIMINATE MUDA / Mike Rother and John Shook / The Lean Enterprise Institute
Autonomous Maintenance in Seven Steps : Implementing Tpm on the Shop Floor / Masaji Tajiri / Productivity Press
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
LEAN THINKING : BANISH WASTE AND CREATE WEALTH IN YOUR CORPORATION / James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones / Simon & Schuster
GEMBA KAIZEN : A COMMONSENSE LOW-COST APPROACH TO MANAGEMENT / Masaaki Imai / McGraw-Hill
TODAY AND TOMORROW / Henry Ford and Samuel Crowther / Productivity Press
THE GOAL : A PROCESS OF ONGOING IMPROVEMENT / Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox / North River Press
POKA-YOKE : IMPROVING PRODUCT QUALITY BY PREVENTING DEFECTS / edited by Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, Ltd. / Productivity Press
REENGINEERING THE CORPORATION : A MANIFESTO FOR BUSINESS REVOLUTION / Michael Hammer and James Champy / HarperBusiness
A REVOLUTION IN MANUFACTURING : THE SMED SYSTEM / Shigeo Shingo / Productivity Press
ZERO QUALITY CONTROL : SOURCE INSPECTION AND THE POKA-YOKE SYSTEM / Shigeo Shingo / Productivity Press
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
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