The Lean Manufacturing Pocket Handbook

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Speak the Language - Understand the Concepts - Know the Techniques

The Lean Manufacturing Pocket Handbook is intended as a reference guide covering the terms, concepts and techniques involved in Lean Manufacturing. It is written in an easy to understand fashion making it useful to both the seasoned Professional and the Novice.

Paper Back - .125" x 3 ¾" x 5 ½" - 44 Pages - 27 Visuals - 34 Definitions - 16 Examples

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Want to improve your manufacturing processes and obtain excellent results? ¿Quiere mejorar sus procesos de manufactura?.......2007-10-18

This book will help reduce and even eliminate waste in your organization. It's worth trying. It makes manufacturing processes to flow better and brings quality improvement to the work place. I recommend it. All our employees should read it (Spanish Version) / Este libro ayuda a reducir e incluso a eliminar desperdicio en su organización. Vale la pena intentarlo. Hace que los processos de manufactura fluyan mejor y trae mejoría a la calidad en el lugar de trabajo. Lo recomiendo (Version en Español)

Very tiny book.......2007-05-10

Very tiny book. I was not expecting such a small book. Very expensive item for its size.
Book arrived with a grease stain on the cover!

Handy Reference, Perfect for Training Seminar.......2007-01-13

If I had to give a 1-2 day seminar on the subject, this would be a handy handbook. For that purpose, it should be used, not as a general reference on lean manufacturing.

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The Lean Manufacturing Handbook.......2007-01-09

I purchased this handbook to be used as a quick reference guide and as part training aid when I talk to my Clients in the manufacturing sector. It has completely satisfied these requirements and the other factor that appealed was its true "pocket" size.

Lean .......2006-08-28

Delighted with this book. Firstly it's size is great as when you are on the Gemba (Floor) you can have this in your back pocket and referance it when needed. It goes through the various concepts of Lean in an easy format and then explains the techniques. As a Lean BlackBelt myself, it's a great tool to use in every day situations.

The Lean Manufacturing Employee Training Manual

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Very good book
You can't tell a bookby it'd cover.
The Lean Manufacturing Employee Training Manual
The Lean Manufacturing Employee Training Manual

The Lean Manufacturing Employee Training Manual
Kenneth W. Dailey
Manufacturer: DW Publishing Co.
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0974722146

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The Lean Manufacturing Employee Training Manual is intended as a training manual / study guide for touch labor and support personnel. It is written in an easy to understand manner and can be readily comprehended the average employee with a minimum of clarifications.

The book covers all of the basic topics of Lean Manufacturing: JIT, The Value Stream, The Seven Wastes and Fourteen Techniques. The manual emphasizes and facilitates the widest possible participation in the implementation and maintenance of a Lean Manufacturing Program. It will make the employee "Lean Ready".

The Lean Manufacturing Employee Training Manual is offered on Amazon.com to allow management to sample the manual prior to committing to reduced-cost bulk purchases.

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Very good book.......2007-10-10

As simple as this book is I really like it. I used it to teach daily lessons on Lean to the company staff. Nice book for the money. I also recommend the book Lean Six Sigma That Works: A Powerful Action Plan for Dramatically Improving Quality, Increasing Speed, And Reducing Waste

You can't tell a bookby it'd cover........2007-01-18

This book is a little pricy and is not really intended for the small job shop.

The Lean Manufacturing Employee Training Manual.......2005-12-06

Being a newcomer to Lean Manufacturing, this book enabled me to bring the lean concepts to my employees in an easy to learn format. Now everyone in my small business is on the same page as we implement these Lean Manufacturing Techniques at every level of the company. We have already seen savings from cutting our wastes and using the Just-in-Time process!

The Lean Manufacturing Employee Training Manual.......2005-08-31

Good overall outline for Lean Manufacturing training but weak on detailed content. If you are not already a "Lean" practitioner, this book is not going to be helpful in establishing employee training course detailed content.

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A book that distinguishes itself from the others!
Great pocket guide on Lean
A Good Collection of Lean Tools
Going Beyond Typical Lean Materials
The Best Lean Book Out There

The New Lean Pocket Guide XL

Manufacturer: MCS Media, Inc.
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Binding: Spiral-bound

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A book that distinguishes itself from the others!.......2007-09-20

The New Lean Pocket Guide XL is a great addition to our training materials. This larger size, new topics on Lean Office and Six Sigma, and most importantly, the numerous digital photos makes this book a benchmark in the industry. We distribute these in all our training sessions. We even discuss the photos and have found ideas for improvements just by looking at them. It's nice to have a book that is this concise, does not clutter information up with case studies (as everyone has one), and has those photo examples upon which to "see" and then "do". A book that does distinguishes itself from the others!

Great pocket guide on Lean.......2007-08-13

I like the format of this handbook and it is definitely easy to use, it gives simple explanations on the concepts and tools of Lean. I would definitely purchase copies for my process improvement team. I would also use it to teach lean concepts in my company.

A Good Collection of Lean Tools.......2007-01-17

This book is a handy collection of all the lean tools you can think of. Each tool is described clearly and simply in a couple of pages with a step by step guide for implementation. You probably need to have a background understanding of lean and its principles to use book but it is a handy reference of all the tools. It lacks overview material on the history and philosophy of lean, and it would be useful to have a clearer description of how to fit the tools together (perhaps some flow charts of what to use when etc). In summary then, great description of lean tools; lacks the background on lean and how to deploy it as a philosophy.

Going Beyond Typical Lean Materials.......2006-09-07

I have purchased nearly every Lean book that has been published over the past 10 years, including The Lean Pocket Guide (MCS Media, Inc.) and found this book to be the best value on the market from current materials available. I like the larger print (in the 5" by 7" format), the new topics that were included, but most significantly, the actual photos of Lean manufacturing practices. The photos that were included have assisted our continuous improvement teams already. Seeing the picture of the Heijunka board for planning on page 26 allowed us to modify our entire shop floor scheduling visual system to emulate something similar to what this displayed. Many other photos that were included also are giving us great ideas for future kaizen events. Great addition to the world of Lean books! Lean Lean Trainer, Sycor Manufacturing, Inc.

The Best Lean Book Out There.......2006-08-30

I had purchased The Lean Pocket Guide over a year ago and recently purchased The New Lean Pocket Guide XL. Both are superb Lean references. What I do like about the XL version, including the new chapers on Lean Office, Six Sigma, is the Glossary of Lean Terms and the Waste Audit. But most of all what I found most beneficial were the actual photos placed throughout demonstrating many of the Lean tools. Many books just offer illustrations, The New Lean Pocket Guide XL shows Lean in action in various manufacturing operations. The book does it for me. I will be purchasing these for all my managers and supervisors (the associates already have The Lean Pocket Guide). An excellent enhancement of an already great book!
Continuous Improvement Coordinator, BA Systems, Inc.

Total Workplace: Facilities Management and the Elastic Organization

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Total Workplace: Facilities Management and the Elastic Organization
Franklin D. Becker
Manufacturer: Van Nostrand Reinhold
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Quality Facility Management: A Marketing and Customer Service Approach

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Quality Facility Management: A Marketing and Customer Service Approach
Stormy Friday , and David G. Cotts
Manufacturer: Wiley
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As a facility manager, you're concerned with building quality into your operation but possibly unsure about how to go about it in a systematic way. Perhaps it's because a Total Quality Management program seems too imposing and costly for your department to undertake. Or maybe you're leery of certain aspects of such a concerted effort, like measuring quality or marketing facility services, because they've never been adequately explained to you.

Possessing considerable backgrounds in facility management, Stormy Friday and Dave Cotts understand these uncertainties. In Quality Facility Management, they have pooled their knowledge and experience to develop a comprehensive resource that demystifies the quality movement and shows you how to apply the old-fashioned but enduring commonsense principles of quality management often overshadowed by TQM.

Flecked with humor and written as if the authors were simply talking to you, this refreshing new book identifies the five major elements underpinning any effective quality facility management program and takes you step by step through each one in a detailed yet accessible way. Gradually, you learn how to put these elements all together andâby incorporating selected modern techniquesâdevise a program to meet your specific situation.

With the help of real-world examples, checklists, and other how-to aids, Quality Facility Management reveals:

Why customers must be the driving force behind your quality effort, how you can exceed customers' performance expectations, and how you can effectively recover from service mistakes
How quality facility management has its roots in TQM, what constitutes the major aspects of a TQM program, and how you can implement quality facility management without a full-blown TQM program
Which aspects of your operation need to be measured and evaluated, which measuring tools should be used, and how to get your customers involved in the measurement process
How to develop a facility marketing plan that increases awareness of your services, improves your image as a provider, and acts as an "insurance policy" in retaining the support of senior management in the face of organizational upheaval
How to engineer a program of continuous quality improvement by assuming a specific leadership role, empowering frontline staff, instituting effective customer service training, and partnering with vendors

The final chapter provides a bounty of practical case histories of companies that are realizing quality facility management right now, including major organizations like Celestica, Bell Atlantic, Hewlett-Packard, and Lockheed. Here, you'll find ample evidence of quality tools and strategies at workâfrom interior preventive maintenance crews to staff productivity improvements, infrastructure planning teams to customer satisfaction programs.

Indeed, whether you're in the public or private sector, in a large or small facility, part of an in-house organization or a contracted firm, Quality Facility Management enables you to plan, organize, staff, direct, and evaluate for quality, so that you maximize your department's responsiveness to customers and your value to top management.

Quality facility management is the only way to do business.

Here's the only way to do quality facility management.

Facility managers want to answer the call for quality but many feel they don't have the resources or guidance to make it an essential feature of their operation. Total Quality Management programs require too much of them and various aspects of the quality effort, whether it's quality measurement or facility marketing, seem hard to carry out or even beside the point.

Finally there's a sensible guide that enables you to build quality into your department simply by applying basic, old-fashioned quality principles and selected modern techniquesâQuality Facility Management

With the assistance of examples, checklists, and other handy tools, this invigorating resource reveals the five key aspects of quality facility management and shows you how to bring them all together to develop a program that fits your particular circumstances.

Emphasizing why your customers are the driving force behind your quality efforts, Quality Facility Management helps you:

Surpass customers' performance expectations and recover effectively from even the most damaging mistakes
Provide quality facility management without implementing a formal TQM program
Accurately measure critical aspects of your operation and act effectively on that feedback
Devise a facility marketing plan that enhances your department's image with customers and top management
Put a program of continuous quality improvement into effect through leadership, staff training and empowerment, vendor collaborations, and other proven means

Packed with case studies of facility managers who are building quality into their operation, Friday and Cotts's Quality Facility Management illustrates how your quest for quality can dramatically upgrade customer and senior management satisfactionâwithout draining department resources.

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Total Workplace Performance: Rethinking The Office Environment
Stan Aronoff , and Audrey Kaplan
Manufacturer: Wdl Pubns
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From the Publisher

This book is about the office workplace--what it is, how it operates, and how it affects the people who work there. It examines the origins of the modern day offices we know today, the functions they perform for their organizations, the building systems of which they are comprised, and the way their interior settings affect human performance. Throughout, the discussion focuses on practical implications, the choices that can significantly enhance the value an organization realizes from its office facility.

The book is oriented toward senior managers responsible for scrutinizing facility policies and expenditures. Extensively referenced, this comprehensive discussion of the office workplace presents information from such diverse fields as engineering, architecture, medicine, psychology, and sociology, in a form accessible to the nonexpert. It will be a valued reference for senior managers and facility professionals alike, as well as to others concerned about the quality of the office environment.

Chapter Outline:

The Case for Office Quality
This introductory chapter presents key issues and trends that are forcing organizations to rethink their approach to the cost and effectiveness of their office accommodations. The rapid pace of office work, made possible by automation, is no longer an option but a necessity to survive in an increasingly competitive marketplace. Global competition, demographics, a greater awareness of the health risks in offices, and more stringent health and safety regulations have made it costly to ignore the impact of the workplace environment on individual performance and organizational effectiveness.

The Office Facility
The origins of the office lie in the distant past. But the office as we know it today is a recent phenomenon that evolved from the increased administrative needs of the industrial revolution.

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The first-ever complete guide to project management for facilities managers covers: how to write specifications, evaluate bids, and solve problems; all control and automation systems for new and retrofit buildings; cost-effective, energy-efficient solutions for all HVAC systems; and has complete coverage of single-building systems as well as multibuilding complexes.

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