Lean Thinking : Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation, Revised and Updated

Lean Thinking : Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation, Revised and Updated | James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, ... | USE LEARN THINKING TO FIND 2,000 PERCENT SOLUTIONS

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	Lean Thinking : Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation, Revised and Updated James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, ... Free Press, 2003 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 50 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Effective Manufacturing without any generic MBA language

I rank the book amongst the better books that I have read along with the Goal. The book is easy to understand and yet is specific in certain systems and means for measuring waste in an organization. This is refreshing when compared to some of the books on lean manufacturing written by authors who are primarily catering to MBA's and other non technical personnel. These authors rarely have specific solutions and are full of buzzwords which their readers can quote in presentations and meetings, even though the concept may not be applicable in the environment they work in. The only disappointment with the book is that just like all other books in Lean Manufacturing, the examples used are always in dicrete or batch processing and never in a continuous environment with significant set up times which are inevitable. If you work in a discrete or batch process where set up times are small or non existent and inventory turns are low, the book is a great application.

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USE LEARN THINKING TO FIND 2,000 PERCENT SOLUTIONS

My sister was fortunate last week to visit the Pratt & Whitney plant described in Lean Thinking. She was in awe of the changes they made, their ability to integrate kaizen for five years into the way they run the business and the comparison between the Chaku Chaku line (the new grinding machines and flow) and the older Boehm machines. As she told me about it, the book came to life. These stories are real and lean thinking does make a difference. Lining up the value creating activities into a value stream focusing on what the customer really wants has many benefits. One that Lean Thinking approaches in described in "The 2,000 Percent Solution" by Mitchell, Coles and Metz as the Ideal or Theoretical Best Practice. This is one of the steps in The Master Eight-Step Problem Solving Process described in their book. It allows you to think about the best way to do a task or reach a goal, with no resource constraints or old baggage, knowing what you know now. People report that once they develop their Ideal Best Practice, they can find a way to get there, rapidly, with greater benefits and at less cost. Lean thinking is clearly part of the 2,000 percent solution many activities. These two books should be read together to create greater success and get you there faster.

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Muda- An Organizational and Societal Evil

The Machine That Changed The World brought an entirely new perspective on manufacturing. This volume continues with the insightful features of the last one.

One of the significant departures from the earlier volume is the focus( or lack of it) on benchmarking. While the authors almost created the 'benchmarking industry' with that book, they no longer appear to be so fascinated by the concept.

They say- let us forget what others are doing- let us see how far can we go on our own understanding and analysis. Sounds remarkably similar to the motivational concpets of self actualization. They feel that this is the way to remove muda. After all, the entire benchmarking industry could not have produced the 10X jumps brought by Toyota Motors in the 1950-60s. So their ideas are acceptable.

Over all, the book represents an evolution of the thought and research done by these two manufacturing specialists.

Certainly a good reading. More than the price

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Must Read to Understand the Toyota Production System

The authors do a great job of helping anyone understand the whys and hows of how the Toyota Production System. At last, here is a well written book to help you understand the different elements of Lean Manufacturing (Toyota Production System). This is a must read for anyone wanting to implement Lean Manufacturing in their company.

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