Productivity Press imprint: 189 books
by Kikuo Suehiro
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
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. Kikuo Suehiro has helped companies such as Hitachi achieve unprecedented reduction in the number of minor stoppages. In this explicitly...
Getting to Standard Work in Health Care
Using TWI to Create a Foundation for Quality Care
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Addressing the challenges involved in achieving standard work in health care, Getting to Standard Work in Health Care: Using TWI to Create a Foundation for Quality Care describes how to incorporate the most widely used Training Within Industry (TWI) method, the Job Instruction (JI) training module,...
The 7 Kata
Toyota Kata, TWI, and Lean Training
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
The biggest competitive advantage an organization can achieve comes from the synergies created by employees skilled in enhancing organizational dynamics. The Seven Kata: Toyota Kata, TWI, and Lean Training supplies time-tested tools and advice to help readers adapt to changing conditions and outcompete...
Lean Hospitals
Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Engagement, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Organizations around the world are using Lean to redesign care and improve processes in a way that achieves and sustains meaningful results for patients, staff, physicians, and health systems. Lean Hospitals, Third Edition explains how to use the Lean methodology and mindsets to improve safety, quality,...
A Leadership Journey in Health Care
Virginia Mason's Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Since adapting the principles of the Toyota Production System to health care in 2002, Virginia Mason Health System has made enormous leaps forward in quality, safety, patient experience of care, and affordability. It has achieved world-class levels of patient satisfaction and has been honored as one...
Visual Workplace Visual Thinking
Creating Enterprise Excellence Through the Technologies of the Visual Workplace, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
Visual Workplace/Visual Thinking (VWVT) was written by the acknowledged leading expert in workplace visuality. While other books touch upon visual workplace tools and practices, no other author has addressed the topic with the clarity and depth presented here. This is a seminal book, considered by...
The Lean 3P Advantage
A Practitioner's Guide to the Production Preparation Process
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
How do you take talented engineers and surround them with the elements needed to create brilliant designs that lead to market-changing products? Lean 3P is how.
Winner of a 2013 Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award !
Written from an operations perspective, The Lean 3P Advantage:...
by Mike Elbert
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
A hands-on guide to adapting Lean principles and the Toyota Production System to high-mix/low-volume environments, Lean Production for the Small Company uses charts, pictures, and easy-to-understand language to describe the methods needed to improve processes and eliminate waste. It walks readers...
Reflections on Hoshin Planning
Guidance for Leaders and Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
The conditions in which leaders apply Hoshin Planning today have changed substantially since the method was established in the 1950’s. There is better and more broadly distributed understanding of statistical process improvement principles and practices in today’s organizations. Executives seem...
Card-Based Control Systems for a Lean Work Design
The Fundamentals of Kanban, ConWIP, POLCA, and COBACABANA
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Many shops have simplified their production control by using card-based systems such as kanban and Constant Work-in-Process (ConWIP). Although these systems provide a simple and highly effective visual approach for controlling manufacturing and service operations, all too many shops struggle with...
Amoeba Management
The Dynamic Management System for Rapid Market Response
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Especially effective in dynamic and highly competitive environments, the Amoeba Management System has received attention from the Harvard Business Review and has already been successfully adopted at more than 400 companies around the world. At the heart of this innovative management system is a business...
The Controller as Lean Leader
A Novel on Changing Behavior with a Lean Cost Management System
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
Traditional accounting systems have become inadequate for today’s increasingly competitive global manufacturing environment. They are too complex and too focused on past performance. As manufacturing techniques change and become less labor intensive, accounting methods must also evolve. Regardless...
From Business Strategy to Information Technology Roadmap
A Practical Guide for Executives and Board Members
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Whether you are a CEO, CFO, board member, or an IT executive, From Business Strategy to Information Technology Roadmap: A Practical Guide for Executives and Board Members lays out a practical, how-to approach to identifying business strategies and creating value-driven technology roadmaps in your...
Managing Country Risk
A Practitioner’s Guide to Effective Cross-Border Risk Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
What would you do if a law that enabled your investment to operate successfully abroad suddenly changed, and your business could no longer operate profitably there? Imagine exporting goods to a government buyer only to discover after the fact that your home country, or the United Nations, has just...