The Lean Pocket Guide is designed for use as a convenient, quick reference as you learn and implement lean manufacturing tools and techniques. It provides valuable insight into the nuances of lean from a team of lean sensi's throughout the world. 
You can put your finger on any entry or lean concept, term, tool, or technique within a matter of seconds! With the simply, clear illustrations, this is definitely meant for use on the shop floor. 
Also, included is this Pocket Guide is a ready-to-submit Suggestion Form to get those ideas into action, NOW!

The Lean Pocket Guide (Please see The New Lean Pocket Guide)

Business & Money

Donald M. Tapping

Economics

MCS Media, Inc.

The Lean Office Pocket Guide XL represents the input of a select group of 'pioneers' who have shared their successful administrative Lean experiences with the how-to tools contained in this book. The tools of takt time, value stream mapping, 5S, document tagging, data capture, flow, pull, kanbans, office file system, plus many others are explained in this desktop version of the best seller The Lean Office Pocket Guide.

The Lean Office Pocket Guide XL

Don Tapping

Management & Leadership

The Lean Primer will allow you to train the organization to understand how critical the implementation of Lean principles and processes are to your short and long term success. It will provide the various reasons why an organization must go Lean, as well as detailing what Lean is. Lean will be explained in the terms of Stabilize, Flow, and Sustain with reference to the following topics of lean vision, waste, value stream mapping, 5S, takt time, buffer and safety stock, continuous flow, standard work, quick changeover, kanban, visual controls, mistake-proofing, leveling, paced withdrawal, visual production control, runners, TPM, and kaizen. Each of these tools will also be explained with digital photos from world-class shops from across the US that shared their best practices.

The Lean Primer: Solutions for the Job Shop

Roger Kremer

Tom Fabrizio

All of us have learned from the various people in our lives. We have matured and developed our values with the help of family, teachers, faith communities, and friends. Each chapter in this book is the story of an actual father and son, taken from interviews and written after critical reflection, a process necessary to proper anthropological methodology. The contributions were gathered from a broad base of geographical and ethnic backgrounds. The are presented here with the hope they will encourage readers to reflect upon relationships with their own fathers and sons. Such stories may even initiate healing where healing is needed, and better understanding where it may be required. Mothers and daughters could find the inner reflections of these men of interest as they reflect on their relationships with their fathers, husbands, and sons. Perhaps wives, mothers, daughters, and friends will gain new insight into the man they love.

In My Father's Steps

Parenting & Relationships

Mark J. Tapping

William J. Turner

Family Relationships

This workbook provides all the necessary tools, forms, and worksheets for Lean to be implemented in a non-repetitive manufacturing environment. Through the successful application of Lean in the job shop, a group of world-class plants decided to share their best practices along with numerous photos from their shops. 
BackStreet Lean will allow you to get started in what can be done today. It is all about, See it Done, Do it Yourself!

BackStreet Lean: Solutions for the Job Shop

Tapping, Don

Sr., John Macchia

Camp, Ron

The Lean Assessment was created as a guide for the job shop and small manufacturer in their Lean journey. The Lean Assessment will provide a baseline upon which you can improve - and most importantly also provide a reference on what to do. The Lean Assessment has 13 categories that are further divided into sub-categories that are scored. The subsequent score will assist you into allocating the appropriate resources in your Lean project. Administrative areas are also referenced in this assessment. The Assessment is self-administering and will allow you to create the necessary visual Spider (or Radar) Chart to convey the score to the organization.

The Lean Assessment for Job Shops and Small Manufacturers

The most comprehensive and practical explanation of Lean concepts and tools made for the shop floor is now available in a larger format. The New Lean Pocket Guide XL has over 120 illustrations to visually convey the tools and concepts, along with detailed descriptions of all the Lean tools. This newer and larger version of the best selling The Lean Pocket Guide also includes: a section on Lean Office and Six Sigma, 20+ digital photos demonstrating Lean in action, a Waste Audit, and a Glossary of Lean terms. The tools of 5S, value stream mapping, document tagging, continuous flow, standard work, visual control, takt time, pitch, runners, waste, plus numerous other Lean tools are thoroughly defined as well as guidelines provided for the implementation of each tool. This version has digital photos of Lean production best practices throughout!

The New Lean Pocket Guide XL

The Lean Healthcare Pocket Guide (Please see The New Lean Healthcare Pocket Guide) is the collection of input from healthcare professionals and Lean sensei. It provides easy-to-use and easy-to-understand tools, methods, and concepts based on the world-class Toyota Motor Company. These practices are commonly referred to as Lean. The tools of value stream mapping, takt time, pitch, standard work, visual controls, predictable output, Six Sigma, goals and outcomes, etc. are all clearly explained in relationship to the healthcare environment. Numerous tools and concepts contain case studies to further assist staff in their deployment of continuous improvement methodologies. The Lean Healthcare Pocket Guide is a powerful toolkit that was designed for all staff in a facility. This book will assist any healthcare facility in enabling them into a Lean environment where the focus is on both driving strategic change and meeting operational goals.

The Lean Healthcare Pocket Guide (Please see The New Lean Healthcare Pocket Guide)

Medical Books

Debra Hadfield

Shelagh Holmes

Administration & Medicine Economics

Lean Office Demystified II is now available (You must re-enter the correct title to get to this new version). Lean Office Demystified II conveys all the tools and concepts explained throughout the book in an actual business case study using MS Office and Open Source applications. Lean Office Demystified II now takes Lean into the 21st century! Lean Office Demystified conveys the proven success of the Toyota Production System for administrative processes. This book includes the best selling The 5S Desktop (PC) Pocket Handbook inside the back cover. The forms, graphs, illustrations, and worksheets are organized in a step-by-step manner in which anyone can apply these principles to the office. Each phase also includes a Readiness Guide that ensures you are ready to proceed to the next level. This book provides the complete blueprint, from start to finish, for planning and implementing your administrative improvements while maximizing employee performance. The Lean tools are defined relative to examples from manufacturing front offices, healthcare and its associated clinics and labs, as well as the financial services industry. This book provides all the necessary tools for you to achieve a Lean Office.

Lean Office Demystified - (Lean Office Demystified II is NOW Available!)

Anne Dunn

Business Culture

(Please see the newer version entitled The New Lean Healthcare Pocket Guide XL.) The Lean Healthcare Pocket Guide XL is a collection of Lean tool examples and definitions from healthcare professionals and Lean sensei. It provides easy-to-use and easy-to-understand tools, methods, and concepts based on the world-class Toyota Motor Company. These practices are commonly referred to as Lean. The Lean Healthcare Pocket Guide XL is designed for use as a convenient and quick reference as you learn and implement the Lean tools as they apply to those challenging situations in healthcare. You can put your finger on any tool within a matter of seconds! Find the right tool for the right Lean initiative by using either the Table of Contents or the Lean Healthcare Tool Usage Matrix. A Table of Contents offers an alphabetical list of tools, techniques, and supporting information. The Lean Healthcare Tool Usage Matrix organizes the Lean tools and concepts relative to three important broad Lean philosophies. The philosophies are: Stabilize - It is critical that excess movement of work and variation of process be removed first. It is difficult to apply Lean when variation exists. Standardize - Once an area or a process has been stabilized, formal standards via work rules, charts, and visual controls must be used to further eliminate variation. Simplify - As an organization stabilizes and standardizes processes, it must level the work loads among staff to ensure effective and efficient service is provided to the patient or other healthcare provider. As you continue with the implementation of Lean initiatives throughout this pocket guide, assess, treat, diagnosis, and prevent will be the overriding themes. The following topics are covered: 5S,  Continuous Flow, Cycle Time, Document Tagging, Error Proofing, Goals and Outcomes, Goal Card, Healthcare Case for Lean, Interruptions and Random Arrivals, Just-In-Time,Kaizen Events ,Kanbans for Supplies, Leveling, Measurement Techniques, Paper File System, Physical Layout, Pitch, Predictable Outcome, Problem Solving, Pull Systems, Reporting and Communications, Resistance to Change, Runners, Six Sigma, Standard Work, Takt Time, Value Stream Mapping, Visual Controls, Waste, and Work Load Balancing. There are over a dozen case studies demonstrating the use of various Lean tools throughout the guide.

The Lean Healthcare Pocket Guide XL

Debra Hadfield, RN MSN

Shelagh Holmes, RN

RN and Don Tapping

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