Fundamental Principles of Lean Manufacturing
Book Description:Fundamental Principles of Lean Manufacturingis the latest discovered and newly translated book from Dr. Shigeo Shingo, the engineering genius and driving force behind the successful realization of the Toyota Production System and Lean Manufacturing. This first-time-in-translation book will give modern readers total access to the fundamentals of improving any process.Praise for the BookThe greatest value of this book is an opportunity to learn how a master sensei thinks about operations improvement. We see how Dr. Shingo thought both about macro-improvement of value streams and micro-process improvement.Jeffrey LikerNew York Times best-selling author, The Toyota WayThis books gives the reader the most wide-ranging overview of Shingo’s contributions to modern industrial engineering and Lean, many not found in any of Shingo’s previously published works. To those new to Shingo and his works, this book offers an excellent introduction. To old friends of his concepts,…this book unveils approaches to facility improvements like transportation, delay, capacity and flow analysis, not previously available in any English translation of Shingo’s before.Jeremy Green, Ph.D., Master Black BeltDirector, Emerald Valley-High Performance Enterprises ConsortiumPlease use this book, in your teams, and follow Dr. Shingo’s advice and Do it! You will surely see the miracles happen.Norman Bodek, Founder of Productivity Press, Co-founder of the Shingo PrizePresident, PCS PressDr. Shingo is brilliant… I can not believe it was not translated 25 years ago. Read this book, study his analysis of Capacity Planning, Flow Analytics, the Coefficient of difficulty to layout design – 10 absolutely brilliant steps to determining the best layout. I could spend a career training organizations on this aspect of Dr. Shingo’s brilliance alone!Collin McLoughlin, PresidentEnna Products Corporation          Learn “how to think”… like Dr. Shingo thinks…Dr. Shingo directs the reader towards the path of flow operations, the ultimate and attainable goal of process improvement. His method of providing numerous examples with easy to understand, yet in-depth explanations of problem solving, is well represented throughout this book, this method has always been the key to Dr. Shingo’s success.Presented as the foundation to the principles of Lean Operations, Dr. Shingo instructs and illustrates the core successes to:Process ImprovementOperations ImprovementFacility Improvement, andImproving the Improvement ProcessWithin these themes, Dr. Shingo breaks each one down to their separate components for review and improvement methods. From the pro’s and con’s of the division of labor, to lot size, delays, transportation, inspections, layout design and efficiency, and everything in between; Dr. Shingo is there to guide the reader towards solutions that work. Dr. Shingo goes into great depth concerning coefficient of Design and Layout Design—a fantastic set of tools that every reader should learn and use.This book is a must read for any manager, engineer, executive, or employee with a passion for Lean Manufacturing and Continuous Improvement,Fundamental Principles of Lean Manufacturingprovides the technical know-how to plot a course of improvement, the practical application of tools such as Kanban and Layout Design are revealed. Again, Dr. Shingo shows you how to use his logic to take advantage of these lean tools to solve problems– invaluable! --Publisher