The Toyota Product Development System: Integrating People, Process And Technology
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Toyota system- A good book
  • A must read for those who want to study the next product development frontier!
  • Academic Review of New Product Development
  • Best book about Toyota PD
  • Excellent reading for OEM.
The Toyota Product Development System: Integrating People, Process And Technology
James M. Morgan , and Jeffrey K. Liker
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ASIN: 1563272822

Book Description

The ability to bring new and innovative products to market rapidly is the prime critical competence for any successful consumer-driven company. All industries, especially automotive, are slashing product development lead times in the current hyper-competitive marketplace. This book is the first to thoroughly examine and analyze the truly effective product development methodology that has made Toyota the most forward-thinking company in the automotive industry.

In The Toyota Product Development System: Integrating People, Process, and Technology, James Morgan and Jeffrey Liker compare and contrast the world-class product development process of Toyota with that of a U.S. competitor. They use extensive examples from Toyota and the U.S. competitor to demonstrate value stream mapping as an extraordinarily powerful tool for continuous improvement.

Through examples and case studies, this book illustrates specific techniques and proven practices for dealing with challenges associated with product development, such as synchronizing multiple disciplines, multiple function workload leveling, compound process variation, effective technology integration, and knowledge management.

This valuable book:

Highlights the application of value stream mapping methodology to product development. Identifies and defines the categories of waste that are specific to the product development process. Presents countermeasures and proven practices, based on Lean principles, developed for the product development process used at Toyota. Illustrates and clarifies the methodology by presenting actual case examples at Toyota and a U.S. competitor.

Readers of this book can focus on optimizing the entire product development value stream rather than focus on a specific tool or technology for local improvements.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Toyota system- A good book.......2007-10-07

I bought this book as a part of my classroom text material. It's an interesting book that talks about how Toyota uses its system to achieve lean manufacturing by integrating people, process and technology. This is coupled with the lean design guide book for our text. It is informative.

5 out of 5 stars A must read for those who want to study the next product development frontier!.......2007-06-18

This book is based on lean product development in the automotive world and has some shortcomings when it comes to applying what Toyota does to other industries. However, with Toyota's success lately their are few arguments against not studying how Toyota approaches product development and applying it to our specific industries. I think the hardest thing for most American companies will be having the long-term discipline to implement what Toyota has done.

1 out of 5 stars Academic Review of New Product Development.......2007-05-28

Although this book is very popular today, the authors offer no new approaches to new product development. Companies should strive to leapfrog Toyota. Similarly to Demmings' focus on quality, every aspect of Toyota's NPD process was first developed in the USA, which still ranks as the World's leading innovation source.

5 out of 5 stars Best book about Toyota PD.......2007-05-08

This is the third book I've read about Toyota and by far the best one. I'm an engineering manager and found dozens of simple, new ideas in this book. This is a very thorough & practical guide to the inside workings of Toyota's PD system. There are many examples and sufficient details that you can easily understand them and also try to implement them in your own organization.

5 out of 5 stars Excellent reading for OEM........2007-04-05

Very interesting topics covered. Strongly recommended for engineers in the automotive industry.
The Lean Manufacturing Pocket Handbook
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Want to improve your manufacturing processes and obtain excellent results? ¿Quiere mejorar sus procesos de manufactura?
  • Very tiny book
  • Handy Reference, Perfect for Training Seminar
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The Lean Manufacturing Pocket Handbook
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ASIN: 0974722103

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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

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars 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)

1 out of 5 stars 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!

4 out of 5 stars 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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4 out of 5 stars 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.

4 out of 5 stars 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.
Small & Decentralized Wastewater Management Systems
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Small & Decentralized Wastewater Management Systems
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Decentralized Wastewater Management presents a comprehensive approach to the design of both conventional and innovative systems for the treatment and disposal of wastewater or the reuse of treaded effluent. Smaller treatment plants, which are the concern of most new engineers, are the primary focus of this important book.

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5 out of 5 stars Great resource for decentralized wastewater systems.......2000-07-03

I think this book is a fantastic resource, for both teaching purposes and design purposes. I recommend this book for use in the classroom and in the design room.
Lean Production Simplified: A Plain-Language Guide to the World's Most Powerful Production System
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LEAN PRODUCTION SIMPLIFIED

A Plain-Language Guide to the World's Most Powerful
Production System
Pascal Dennis

The author is a professional engineer, and educator with 20 years experience in manufacturing, public service, and consulting engineering. He developed his lean thinking skills on the shop floor of Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada, and working with lean masters in Japan and North America.

LEAN PRODUCTION SIMPLIFIED is a plain language guide to the lean production system. The book is organized around a central image: the "house of lean production", which will help the reader grasp the system and the factors that animate it. Additionally, the book provides an insider's view of Toyota, and how this company continues to succeed.

Features and Benefits:
· connects directly to Toyota
· first book on lean production written for the operator level
· emphasizes the lean process as a common-sense approach
· perfect book to keep on the floor as a quick reference guide

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars P. Dennis.......2007-09-05

This is the best book I have read on the subject of Lean and the Toyota Production System. Easy to read and the concepts are fully explored and explained. If you want a Toyota perspective to process improvement you need this book.

5 out of 5 stars Time to read 1 book on TPS? This is the one!.......2007-08-23

This was an incredibly informative book that helped to shape my views of TPS. My company religiously follows lean practices and this simple-to-read guidebook helped clarify and reinforce many key concepts. I'm currently buying five additional copies to distribute to my supervisors.

3 out of 5 stars Lean for Dummies.......2007-05-07

A short book which presents the basic principles of Lean Enterprise from the Toyota creation.

5 out of 5 stars Excellent Introduction & Overview to TPS/Lean.......2007-03-26

This is an execellent overview and introduction to TPS. It is clear and concise without all of the case studies but it covers all of the basics of TPS. It is an easy read for the novice and will give a good grounding an overview of the key elements of TPS as a system that it is and should be understood as.

In addition to the basic elements of TPS/Lean the author also adds the Toyota elements of the strategic planning process and roles played by the various levels of management. This is an added bonus and is an area of TPS that is not very well addressed in other literature I have read...at least not in any real detail.

If you really want a good solid quick overview of TPS/Lean without all of the case studies, then I highly recommend this book.

5 out of 5 stars lean production simplified.......2007-02-10

This is a very interesting book because show us of the simplified way how is possible to learn about lean manufacturing . It's important to highlighting that language of this book is very simple and your reading bring us a lot of pleasure .
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    Integrated Design and Operation of Water Treatment Facilities
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    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    • Great Book for SAP Workflow
    • Sharpen your workflow skills
    • Very Good!
    • Excellent cook book for professionals
    • really a good book you will be happy to buy ..I'm not the author...
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    Alan Rickayzen , Jocelyn Dart , Carsten Brennecke , and Markus Schneider
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    You will learn how to deploy and extend SAP workflows, create your own, and make your project a success. Of particular interest is the use of new technologies such as XML messaging as well as the insight you gain into the use of workflows in mySAP.com (for example, mySAP SRM and mySAP CRM). Additional tips and tricks, checklists, guidelines for administrators, custom programs, and debugging techniques make this book an indispensable reference for everyday use.

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    5 out of 5 stars Great Book for SAP Workflow.......2007-05-07

    This is the Book for those who wanted to learn SAP workflow..
    This Book is very usefull and it is right choice for beginner's. Overall i am satisfied.

    3 out of 5 stars Sharpen your workflow skills.......2007-02-17

    This book is very detailed, and is a good offline reference, however with 16 years SAP experience I felt the book laboured theory and lacked examples. SAP workflow is an area in which I have seen many a seasoned sapper struggle and remains to date under utilised in even the broadest implementations. After reading once I do not expect to use this book as a reference as the content is available trawling SAP help.

    5 out of 5 stars Very Good!.......2006-05-08

    This book was an excellent read - It really helped me in understanding a lot of the basics as well as solving difficult problems later on... If you want a "Workflow Bible" this is the book!

    4 out of 5 stars Excellent cook book for professionals.......2006-03-09

    Certainly the book is not for beginners. But it was a real help in my recent practical work. Lots of tips and tricks. Highly recommended for the SAP Workflow consultant desktop.

    4 out of 5 stars really a good book you will be happy to buy ..I'm not the author..........2006-02-11

    This book gives a really great help in understanding the architecture of Sap Workflow and its development.
    In addition it really helped me on the field whe I was to fix a difficult technical problem on a workflow implemented by other people giving to me all the escalation steps to find what it was wrong in that case.


    Project Management: Processes, Methodologies, and Economics (2nd Edition) (Prentice-Hall International Series in Industrial and Systems Engineering)
    Average customer rating: 1.5 out of 5 stars
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    Avraham Shtub , Jonathan F. Bard , and Shlomo Globerson
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    Customer Reviews:

    1 out of 5 stars Worst book about Project management.......2006-03-31

    The authors didn't go through in details how to calculate Present worth, installments, etc.Before using this book, it is better to read Principles of Engineering Economy textbook.

    1 out of 5 stars Book Full of Errors .......2005-09-07

    This was a required textbook for a graduate-level project management class I am taking. Unfortunately, it is full of mathematical errors (Our professor pointed out 4 errors during one class session alone!). The other major downfall to the book is that it is heavily skewed toward an engineering perspective of project management and does not consider a business approach. I have had better financial textbooks explain formulas to use when calculating future and present value of cash flows in a more straightforward manner than this book. If you must buy this book, buy it used and save a few dollars.

    1 out of 5 stars This is not the book........2003-11-30

    If you want to learn project management or get better at it, don't read this book. It brushes over important concepts and spends and inordinate amount of words attempting to describe the profession. It assumes detailed knowledge, gives very poor examples and, in summary, is a total waste of time.

    3 out of 5 stars Many Errors.......2003-05-04

    The material contained in the text is generally well written and well organized, but beware of using it as your only source of information. There are an unacceptable amount of errors in the text which can lead to a very frustating learning experience. The authors do a good job of incorporating many real-world examples into the text which helps the reader to avoid becoming bogged down in theory.
    SAP Exchange Infrastructure: The official guide to integrating business processes using SAP XI technology
    Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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    SAP Exchange Infrastructure: The official guide to integrating business processes using SAP XI technology
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    5 out of 5 stars Everything as the title suggests...very good!!.......2007-01-11


    This is an excellent book on XI, and I am not sure what the other reviewers where expecting from this book. I can agree that sometimes the language in the books a little difficult to understand, but that would not stop me from recommending this book to other XI users. Author provides an in-depth analysis for each component in XI. Here is how the book is organized:

    Chapter 1 and 2 are essential for understanding all subsequent chapters, fundamentals of XI are explained here. Chapters 3 through 5 concentrate on design and development with SAP XI independently of specific system landscape. Chapter 6 summarizes everything discussed in previous chapters: It describes how you can configure the cross-system process for a specific system landscape, based on the developments made at the logical level. The order in which the topics are addressed reflects the chronological order of the corresponding steps in the SAP XI integration project. Chapter 7, which deals with SAP XI runtime, could be read concurrently with all other chapters. Chapter 8 completes the first part of the book with its description of the cross -component BPM, which marks the transition from stateless to stateful communication.

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    2 out of 5 stars Very cryptic - Tough to understand.......2006-12-13

    It is expected that the chapters 1 & 2 be read before going ahead with any other chapters. It would have helped the readers if these two chapters were presented in a simpler way. May be the blame goes to the translation.

    Seems like this book is for those who already have good understanding of XI or who have worked on XI before.

    2 out of 5 stars Good high level but not technical.......2006-07-27

    This was a very difficult book to read because it is so incredibly dry, like many other SAP Press books.

    It provides an excellent overview of SAP XI, and explains the architecture very well. It also gives very good business examples. Unfortunately, I was looking for something much more technical, and this was not detailed enough for me. I had much better luck figuring out how to use XI on my own rather than reading this book.

    Perhaps I just had the wrong idea as to what sort of a book this was.

    4 out of 5 stars shows in part why JMX failed.......2006-06-26

    The book explains how a programmer might use the SAP API for Exchange. There is much detail provided by SAP, with additional explanations given by the book's authors. For example, we see that the Mapping Editor can be used to provide a graphical view of an XML document. Though the graphics are somewhat constrained if you have a very long document.

    Messaging is an important part of EI. We are shown how to exchange messages. This EI aspect can also be hooked up to a Java Message Service. Where here, messaging is not email, in general. But data packets that might be used by external Web Services.

    The book shows inadvertantly why JMX proved so useless in practise. EI offers management control functionality for SAP processes that is equivalent to what JMX once promised for controlling distributed java applications. Alas, JMX was too general. Whereas EI gives specific control hooks into an already well accepted and popular SAP package.
    Performance Improvement Interventions : Enhancing People, Processes, and Organizations through Performance Technology
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      Performance Improvement Interventions : Enhancing People, Processes, and Organizations through Performance Technology
      Darlene Van Tiem , James L. Moseley , and Joan C. Dessinger
      Manufacturer: Pfeiffer
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      Binding: Paperback

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      Interventions create solutions that alleviate or solve workplace problems. They cause change, small or large, due to improved performance and, thus, have an impact on individuals, groups, or organizations. The number of possible interventions is almost infinite, because any number of organizational, environmental, and people factors affect performance. Interventions facilitate change by interrupting poor behaviors, preventing errors, reducing conflict, or providing vision for the future.

      Performance Improvement Interventions: Enhancing People, Processes, and Organizations through Performance Technology is a compendium of interventions based on the International Society for Performance Improvement's (ISPI) Human Performance Technology (HPT) model. After analyzing the workplace performance problem and its cause, HPT practitioners should possess sufficient data to select and design solutions, known as interventions. The HPT model is explained in detail in the ISPI companion book, Fundamentals of Performance Technology: A Guide to Improving People, Process, and Performance (2000).

      Performance Improvement Interventions: Enhancing People, Processes, and Organizations through Performance Technology is designed as a desk reference of performance improvement opportunities for almost any need and occasion. The book identifies and explains common interventions by providing the definition and scope of each intervention as well as implementation guidelines. In addition, a job aid is provided for every intervention. Each section or cluster of interventions contains a case study to help the reader visualize implementation and its impact on the workplace.

      The book also contains an intervention selection tool. Due to the enormity of intervention options, this tool helps HPT practitioners select the right intervention at the right time. The selection process outlines individual and group phases, and instructs practitioners that successful implementation requires consensus among all affected parties.

      Performance Improvement Interventions: Enhancing People, Processes, and Organizations through Performance Technology contains useful information for all HPT practitioners—those who are just entering the field of HPT and those who have been implementing performance solutions for years.
      Fundamentals of Modern Manufacturing: Materials, Processes, and Systems
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      Mikell P. Groover
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      Book Description

      A modern, all-inclusive look at manufacturing


      In this modern, quantitative approach to manufacturing, Mikell Groover offers balanced coverage of the three basic engineering materials--metals, ceramics, polymers, as well as composites--along with recently developed manufacturing processes and electronics manufacturing technologies.


      Throughout Fundamentals of Modern Manufacturing, the emphasis is on manufacturing science and quantitative analysis of manufacturing processes. This emphasis helps students understand the relationships among the material properties and the process variables in a given manufacturing process.


      Now updated and revised, this Third Edition of Fundamentals of Modern Manufacturing features:
      * New chapter on Nanofabrication Technologies, which describes the importance of nanotechnology and future commercial products that will be made possible by this technology.
      * Updated chapter on Microfabrication Technologies with new material describing how compact discs are produced.
      * More than 1700 end-of-chapter review questions, multiple-choice quiz questions, and quantitative analysis problems, including many new questions and problems in this edition.


      See manufacturing processes in action with SME videos!


      This text is packaged with a DVD based on the Society of Manufacturing Engineers' Fundamental Manufacturing Processes video series. The DVD contains brief video clips that promote visualization of key manufacturing processes. Chapters in the text include references to the videos, and several new end-of-chapter questions relate to the videos.

      Customer Reviews:

      4 out of 5 stars Pretty nice.......2005-09-21

      The binding had seen better days but besides that the book is in excelent condition. Can't complain for a used book.

      4 out of 5 stars Fundamentals of Modern Manufacturing.......1998-05-05

      I think this is a great reference book. I have had prof. Groover in 3 of my Industrial Engineering classes at Lehigh University. There is not a single semester when I don't go back to use the book as a reference. The book is very easy to read, and to understand.

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