This is a "hands-on, how-to" guide to making significant improvements in a manufacturing plant. Uniquely written in a step-by-step format for both managers and operators, Implementing World Class Manufacturing allows everyone in a facility to participate in making the business the best at what it does - now and in the future.

Implementing World Class Manufacturing: A Bridge To Your Manufacturing Survival - Shop Floor Manual

Business & Money

Rubrich, Larry

Watson, Madelyn

Management & Leadership

WCM Associates

Written for both machine operators and managers, Implementing World Class Manufacturing - 2nd Edition, by Larry Rubrich and Mattie Watson, allows everyone in your facility to participate in making your business the best at what you do - now and in the future. In our Second Edition, the application of the waste elimination techniques of Lean and World Class Manufacturing have been expanded to include all parts of manufacturing businesses (the office also) and to all types of business in general. This shop floor manual teaches leadership, empowerment, and the advanced manufacturing techniques required to secure your future, today!

Implementing World Class Manufacturing: A Bridge to Your Manufacturing Survival

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

"Who's Counting?", by Jerrold M. Solomon, is a business novel that, for the first time, explains how accounting and manufacturing personnel must develop a partnership to successfully achieve world class results. This novel takes readers on a successful "Lean Journey", and illustrates how to bring accounting practices into the 21st century in order to compete in today's global market. A must read for all those interested in successfully implementing lean accounting! Jerry Solomon and Rosemary Fullerton's latest book, "Accounting for World Class Operations: A Practical Guide for Providing Information in Support of the Lean Enterprise" is an excellent follow-up book to Who's Counting?. The authors provide a roadmap for moving from a traditional standard cost system to a simple accounting system that provides appropriate information for a Lean Manufacturing Environment. Available on Amazon.com

Who's Counting? A Lean Accounting Business Novel (Winner of the Shingo Prize for Manufacturing Excellence)

Literature & Fiction

Jerrold M. Solomon

Action & Adventure

Shrink-wrapped set contains two lean manufacturing workbooks - "Implementing World Class Manufacturing", and "Putting 5S to Work". "Implementing World Class Manufacturing" by Larry Rubrich and Madelyn Watson (Spiral Bound)- This is a "hands-on, how-to" guide to making significant improvements in a manufacturing plant. Uniquely written in a step-by-step format for both managers and operators, Implementing World Class Manufacturing allows everyone in a facility to participate in making the business the best at what it does - now and in the future! "Putting 5S to Work" by Hiroyuki Hirano (Softcover) - Handbook for the practical implementation of the 5S program on the shop floor. Complete with illustrations and sample checklists to ensure ease of implementation for all facets of the programs - this is a foolproof guide to maintaining a more organized, efficient, safe, and profitable production floor.

Lean Manufacturing Workbooks: Implementing World Class Manufacturing and Putting 5S to Work

Larry Rubrich

Hiroyuki Hirano

Madelyn Watson

Shrink-wrapped set contains two lean manufacturing workbooks - "Implementing World Class Manufacturing" by Larry Rubrich and Madelyn Watson (424 pages, spiral bound) and "Demystifying Six Sigma" by Alan Larson (181 Pages, Softcover, published by AMACOM) BLENDING AND USING BOTH LEAN MANUFACTURING AND SIX SIGMA TO BECOME A WORLD CLASS COMPANY - THESE WORKBOOKS ILLUSTRATE HOW! Many business leaders and managers are confused about which of these techniques (Lean or Six Sigma) that they should implement in their company. The reality is that you need to implement both! Lean is absolutely essential in empowering the workforce. Empowering the workforce is a required element int eh journey to become a World Class company. It is designed to obtain the involvement and participation of the entire workforce as well as providing them wiht waste elimination tools that they can understand and use, such as 5S, Teams, TPM, Office/Manufacturing Cells, Setup Reduction, and Kanbans. Six Sigma excels at Problem Solving. It allows the empowered workforce to get to the "root cause" of identified business waste so that it can be eliminated. Demystifying Six Sigma explains Six Sigma in terms that the entire workforce can understand and use. It gives a simple and understandable explanation of how to impolement Six Sigma that will allow for the seemless blending of both Lean and Six Sigam.

Blending Lean and Six Sigma Workbooks

Larson, Alan

The goal of implementing Lean/World Class Enterprise is to improve and grow American businesses by making them globally competitive. With the news filled with debates about outsourcing, and moving businesses overseas, being globally competitive while maintaining their facilities in the US sounds like just what American business needs. So how successful are American companies at implementing these techniques? A recent report from Industry Week magazine sadly summarizes the current state of implementations. 
Industry Week reported that 72% of the 884 U.S. companies responding to their survey were in various stages of implementing an improvement strategy such as Lean or World Class manufacturing, Agile manufacturing, Six Sigma, TPS, Theory of Constraints, or others. Of these companies, 75% reported that they had made "no" or just "some" progress toward their World Class manufacturing goals. Only 2% of the companies reported achieving World Class manufacturing status. 
Why aren’t more companies showing significant progress in their goal to become World Class? This book has answers. 
Written for both experienced Lean/World Class implementers and companies just beginning the World Class Enterprise (WCE) journey, this book lists the ten reasons implementations fail (in order of severity) and what companies can do to prevent or recover from their occurrence.

How to Prevent Lean Implementation Failures: 10 Reasons Why Failures Occur

The second book in the "Making Companies Globally Competitive Series", Getting Lean introduces lean business concepts and practices in a readable, comprehensive, and easy-to-follow format. Written in the form of an entertaining novel, Getting Lean draws on real world experiences to show readers the steps to creating a Lean Enterprise. Getting Lean describes the concepts and processes of lean manufacturing in a practical and uncomplicated manner, so that every member of the workforce can understand these concepts.

Getting Lean (Making Companies Globally Competitive)

Feingold, Jerry

Business Culture

Leading Lean--The Making of a Kaizen Event, by Jerrold Solomon (Shingo Prize Winning Author of Who’s Counting? A Lean Accounting Business Novel) is the second in a series of business novels about the Lean transformation process at Tricor Electronics, a fictional company. It follows the characters originally introduced in Who’s Counting? and exposes the human interactions that occur during any Lean transformation. Leading Lean illustrates the angst people go through when asked to change, demonstrates the teamwork and leadership required, exposes the paradigms that must be changed, and lays bare the unwavering commitment required from everyone, especially the CEO. It brings to life the unending stream of interpersonal challenges as the novel chronicles the hour-by-hour progression of a three-day 5S event. Leading Lean demonstrates the critical role a trained facilitator plays in successfully navigating the Lean transformation and provides a road map that will e! nable your company to compete more effectively in the 21st century.

Leading Lean

Jerrold M. Solomon (Shingo Prize Winning Author of Who's Counting?)

Contemporary

Jerrold M. Solomon and Rosemary Fullerton

Accounting for World Class Operations (Winner of the Shingo Prize for Manufacturing Excellence)