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Lean Organization: from the Tools of the Toyota Production System to Lean Office
by Andrea ChiariniLean Organization for Excellence describes the right way to implement lean thinking inside both manufacturing and service industries. After explaining the origins of the concept and discussing 'wastes' and value added, the book aims to set out a precise path of action. To this end, the so-called Hoshin Kanri method of defining business objectives and targets is explained, and a Value Stream Mapping tool that serves to identify all wastes is described. Subsequent chapters cover each of the TPS (Toyota Production System) tools, from 5S to SMED, and special attention is devoted to the Ducati case study, in which tools such as 5S and Kanban are applied. Lean metrics and the innovative Value Stream Accounting are discussed, and the closing chapter focuses on Lean Office for the service industry. Each chapter includes illustrations and tables relating to practical cases concerning the subject under consideration, based on real consultancy experiences.
Lean Out: The Truth About Women, Power, and the Workplace
by Marissa OrrMore than fifty years since the passage of the Equal Pay Act, the wage gap still hovers at 80 percent. Half a billion dollars are spent annually on corporate diversity programs, yet only 5 percent of CEOs in the Fortune 500 are women. Lean Out is an ambitious attempt to answer the question few dare to ask: What have we gotten wrong about women at work? Based on in-depth research and personal experiences, Lean Out is inspired by the journey of Marissa Orr, a single mom of three trying to succeed in her fifteen-year career at the world’s top tech giants. In an eye-opening account, Orr exposes the systemic dysfunction at the heart of today’s most powerful corporations and how their pursuit to close the gender gap has come at the expense of female well-being. “Fewer women at the top is a clear signal that the system is broken,” says Orr. “With female-dominant strengths such as empathy and consensus-building being the future of business, the headlines forecast that women will dominate the future generations of corporate leaders. But that won’t happen until prescriptions for success stop requiring women to act more like men, mistaking traits such as empathy as signals of weakness.” Lean Out provides a new and refreshingly candid perspective on what it’s really like for today’s corporate underdogs, while challenging modern feminist rhetoric and debunking the belief that everyone has to be the same in order to be equal. Offering compelling new arguments for the reasons more women don’t make it to the top, Lean Out presents a revolutionary path forward, to change the life trajectories of women in the corporate world and beyond.
Lean Out: The Struggle For Gender Equality In Tech And Start-up Culture
by Elissa ShevinskyWhy aren't the great, qualified women already in tech being hired or promoted? Should people who don't fit in seek to join an institution that is actively hostile to them? Does the tech industry deserve women leaders? The split between the stated ideals of the corporate elite and the reality of working life for women in the tech industry--whether in large public tech companies or VC-backed start-ups, in anonymous gaming forums, or in Silicon Valley or Alley--seems designed to crush women's spirits. Corporate manifestos by women who already fit in (or who are able to convincingly fake it) aren't helping. There is a high cost for the generation of young women and transgender people currently navigating the harsh realities of the tech industry, who gave themselves to their careers only to be ignored, harassed and disrespected. Not everyone can be a CEO; not everyone is able to embrace a workplace culture that diminishes the contributions of women and ignores real complaints. The very culture of high tech, where foosball tables and endless supplies of beer are de facto perks, but maternity leave and breast-feeding stations are controversial, is designed to appeal to young men. Lean Out collects 25 stories from the modern tech industry, from people who fought GamerGate and from women and transgender artists who have made their own games, from women who have started their own companies and who have worked for some of the most successful corporations in America, from LGBTQ women, from women of color, from transgender people and people who do not ascribe to a gender. All are fed up with the glacial pace of cultural change in America's tech industry. Included are essays by anna anthropy, Leigh Alexander, Sunny Allen, Lauren Bacon, Katherine Cross, Dom DeGuzman, FAKEGRIMLOCK, Krys Freeman, Gesche Haas, Ash Huang, Erica Joy, Jenni Lee, Katy Levinson, Melanie Moore, Leanne Pittsford, Brook Shelley, Elissa Shevinsky, Erica Swallow, and Squinky. Edited and selected by entrepreneur and tech veteran Elissa Shevinsky, Lean Out sees a possible way forward that uses tech and creative disengagement to jettison 20th century corporate culture: ''I've figured out a way to create safe space for myself in tech,'' writes Shevinsky. ''I've left Silicon Valley, and now work remotely from home. I adore everyone on my team, because I hired them myself.
The Lean Practitioner's Field Book: Proven, Practical, Profitable and Powerful Techniques for Making Lean Really Work
by Charles Protzman Fred Whiton Joyce Kerpchar Christopher Lewandowski Steve Stenberg Patrick GroundsWhile there are numerous Lean Certification programs, most companies have their own certification paths whereby they bestow expert status upon employees after they have participated in or led a certain number of kaizen events. Arguing that the number of kaizen events should not determine a person's expert status, The Lean Practitioner's Field Book: Proven, Practical, Profitable and Powerful Techniques for Making Lean Really Work outlines a true learning path for anyone seeking to understand essential Lean principles.The book includes a plethora of examples drawn from the personal experiences of its many well-respected and award-winning contributors. These experts break down Lean concepts to their simplest terms to make everything as clear as possible for Lean practitioners. A refresher for some at times, the text provides thought-provoking questions with examples that will stimulate learning opportunities.Introducing the Lean Practitioner concept, the book details the five distinct Lean Practitioner levels and includes quizzes and criteria for each level. It highlights the differences between the kaizen event approach and the Lean system level approach as well as the difference between station balancing and baton zone.This book takes readers on a journey that begins with an overview of Lean principles and culminates with readers developing professionally through the practice of self-reliance. Providing you with the tools to implement Lean tools in your organization, the book includes discussions and examples that demonstrate how to transition from traditional accounting methods to a Lean accounting system.The book outlines an integrated, structured approach identified by the acronym BASICS (baseline, analyze, suggest solutions, implement, check, and sustain), which is combined with a proven business strategy to help ensure a successful and sustainable transformation of your organization.
The Lean Practitioner's Handbook
by Mark EatonThe Lean Practitioner's Handbook bridges the gap between the tools and concepts of Lean and the practical use of the tools. It offers a practical, easily accessible resource for anyone preparing for, implementing or evaluating lean activities covering key areas such as: aspects of a Lean Programme; scoping a programme; value stream mapping; 2P and 3P events; Rapid Improvement Events; managing for daily improvement; engaging the team; spotting problems and communicating progress. In addition, it offers a quick snapshot summary of the key tool and concepts of Lean plus easily applicable templates.
The Lean Prescription: Powerful Medicine for Our Ailing Healthcare System
by Patricia A. Gabow Philip L. GoodmanIn this book, Dr. Gabow, former CEO of Denver Health of 20 years, teams up with Philip Goodman, a 34-year veteran of Denver Health who directed the Lean System group, to share their Lean journey. The Lean Prescription: Powerful Medicine for Our Ailing Healthcare System tells the story of how Dr. Gabow led Denver Health to become the first healthcar
Lean Problem Solving and QC Tools for Industrial Engineers
by Maharshi SamantaThe manufacturing and service sector needs to resolve a lot of issues relating to products, process and service in everyday operation. Successful resolution depends on the methodology, rigor and systematic implementation techniques. The essential purpose of this book is to impart the necessary knowledge to the reader about concepts in six sigma problem-solving providing sufficient knowledge of problem lifecycle and ways to address the various issues arising therein. The 7 QC tools and A3 strategy are described and analyzed in detail with various examples encompassing a step by step approach a professional must know to address a problem in an industrial engineering set up. Key Features Conceptualizes six sigmas problem-solving providing sufficient knowledge of problem lifecycle and ways to address the various issues for manufacturing industry professionals Enables effective use of 7 QC tools for solving problems Addresses the problem- solving part very specifically in all the contexts of PDCA cycle of improvement, DMAIC methodology of organizational transformation, and TPM & TQM culture of productivity and quality improvement Written with A3 theme throughout enabling each problem-solving tool to follow a structured approach Includes relevant and practical examples and applications
The Lean Product Design and Development Journey
by Marcus Vinicius Pereira Pessôa Luis Gonzaga TrabassoThis book presents a series of high performance product design (PD) and development best practices that can create or improve product development organization. In contrast to other books that focus only on Toyota or other individual companies applying lean IPD, this book explains the lean philosophy more broadly and includes discussions of systems engineering, design for X (DFX), agile development, integrated product development, and project management. The "Lean Journey" proposed here takes a value-centric approach, where the lean principles are applied to PD to allow the tools and methods selected to emerge from observation of the individual characteristics of each enterprise. This means that understanding lean product development (LPD) is not about knowing which tools are available but knowing how to apply the philosophy. The book comes with an accompanying manual with problems and solutions available on Springer Extras.
The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback
by Dan OlsenThe missing manual on how to apply Lean Startup to build products that customers love The Lean Product Playbook is a practical guide to building products that customers love. Whether you work at a startup or a large, established company, we all know that building great products is hard. Most new products fail. This book helps improve your chances of building successful products through clear, step-by-step guidance and advice. The Lean Startup movement has contributed new and valuable ideas about product development and has generated lots of excitement. However, many companies have yet to successfully adopt Lean thinking. Despite their enthusiasm and familiarity with the high-level concepts, many teams run into challenges trying to adopt Lean because they feel like they lack specific guidance on what exactly they should be doing. If you are interested in Lean Startup principles and want to apply them to develop winning products, this book is for you. This book describes the Lean Product Process: a repeatable, easy-to-follow methodology for iterating your way to product-market fit. It walks you through how to: Determine your target customers Identify underserved customer needs Create a winning product strategy Decide on your Minimum Viable Product (MVP) Design your MVP prototype Test your MVP with customers Iterate rapidly to achieve product-market fit This book was written by entrepreneur and Lean product expert Dan Olsen whose experience spans product management, UX design, coding, analytics, and marketing across a variety of products. As a hands-on consultant, he refined and applied the advice in this book as he helped many companies improve their product process and build great products. His clients include Facebook, Box, Hightail, Epocrates, and Medallia. Entrepreneurs, executives, product managers, designers, developers, marketers, analysts and anyone who is passionate about building great products will find The Lean Product Playbook an indispensable, hands-on resource.
LEAN Production – Easy and Comprehensive: A practical guide to lean processes explained with pictures
by Roman Hänggi André Fimpel Roland SiegenthalerNo production is perfect. Waste always creeps into the processes, makes them slow, sluggish and expensive. Parts and material pile up in the warehouse, production takes place in unnecessarily large batches, transport is taking time, employees wait unproductively for their next task or products ship too late. The result is high production costs and disappointed customers.The Lean movement has set itself the goal of uncovering waste, question it and eliminate it.This book will explain in a simple and comprehensive way the Lean principles as well as the practical tools to make production processes as lean and value-added as possible. Because we all love stories, each method is entertainingly wrapped in an illustrated story. In this book, a barista who has to run marathon distances every day, the cup Tim struggles with overproduction and the LeanClean Inc. counts on your support to trim the vacuum cleaner production to maximum value creation with value stream mapping, spaghetti diagram, 5S or Kanban. For each topic, you will find our practical tips. They are the lessons learned from our Lean projects over the past 20 years in many countries. They will help you to implement your Lean initiatives even more effectively and successfully.
LEAN Production – einfach und umfassend: Ein praxisorientierter Leitfaden zu schlanken Prozessen mit Bildern erklärt
by Roman Hänggi André Fimpel Roland SiegenthalerKeine Produktion ist perfekt. Im Prozess schleicht sich stets Verschwendung ein, macht ihn langsam, träge und teuer. Ware liegt im Lager herum, die Fertigung findet in unnötig großen Losen statt, Transporte sind erforderlich oder Mitarbeiter warten unproduktiv, um ein nächstes Teil einzuspannen. Das Ergebnis sind hohe Produktionskosten und enttäuschte Kunden.Die Lean-Bewegung hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt Verschwendung aufzudecken, sie zu hinterfragen und zu beseitigen. Dieses Buch vermittelt dir die theoretischen Grundlagen, aber auch die praktischen Werkzeuge, um Produktionsprozesse so schlank und wertschöpfend wie möglich zu gestalten. Weil wir alle Geschichten lieben ist jede Methode unterhaltsam in eine Story verpackt. In diesem Buch lebt ein Barista der täglich Marathondistanzen laufen muss, der Tassen-Tim kämpft mit Überproduktion und die LeanClean AG zählt auf deine Unterstützung, um mit Wertstromanalyse, Spaghetti-Diagramm, 5S oder Kanban die Staubsaugerproduktion auf maximale Wertschöpfung zu trimmen. Zu jedem Thema gibt's unsere Praxis-Tipps. Sie sind die Erkenntnis aus unseren Lean-Projekten der vergangenen 20 Jahre. Sie werden dir helfen, deine Lean-Initiativen noch effektiver und erfolgreicher umzusetzen.
Lean Production for Competitive Advantage: A Comprehensive Guide to Lean Methodologies and Management Practices, Second Edition
by John NicholasThe second edition will include four new topics that fully address the scope of Lean: Hoshin Kanri (HK), Managing for Daily Improvement (MDI), Production Preparation Process (3P), and Lean in project management (especially for projects in product development). HK is a management planning process that evolved in Japan concurrent with Lean and early adopters employed it. MDI addresses the 5th S (sustain) in the 5S process. Together, HK and MDI answer questions such as: How is Lean tied to strategic planning? What is the role of management in Lean? How are daily improvements tied to organizational goals? and How are improvements sustained? The two topics address Lean as a "culture."
Lean Production for the Small Company
by Mike ElbertA hands-on guide to adapting Lean principles and the Toyota Production System to high-mix/low-volume environments, Lean Production for the Small Company uses charts, pictures, and easy-to-understand language to describe the methods needed to improve processes and eliminate waste. It walks readers through the correct order of implementation and desc
Lean Production für die variantenreiche Einzelfertigung
by Reinhard Koether Klaus-Jürgen MeierLean Production wurde für die Großserienfertigung entwickelt und ist zum weltweiten Standard geworden. Die Stückzahlen eines Produktes werden jedoch kleiner und die Vielfalt größer. Die Kunden erwarten maßgeschneiderte Lösungen zu Preisen wie aus der Massenfertigung. Dieses Buch zeigt anschaulich, welche Methoden aus der Lean Production genutzt bzw. modifiziert und welche nicht in die Kleinserienfertigung übernommen werden können. Dazu werden das Quick Response Management (QRM) und die aktuellen Entwicklungen von Industrie 4.0 mit der Lean Production verglichen und zu einem gemeinsamen Ansatz zusammengeführt. Konkrete Praxisbeispiele bieten Lösungsvorschläge.
Lean Production für die variantenreiche Einzelfertigung: Flexibilität wird zum neuen Standard
by Reinhard Koether Klaus-Jürgen MeierLean Production wurde für die Großserienfertigung entwickelt und ist zum weltweiten Standard geworden. Die Stückzahlen vieler Produkte werden jedoch kleiner und die Vielfalt größer. Die Kunden erwarten maßgeschneiderte Lösungen zu Preisen wie aus der Massenfertigung. Dieses Buch zeigt anschaulich, welche Methoden aus der Lean Production genutzt bzw. modifiziert in die Kleinserienfertigung übernommen werden können. Dazu werden das Quick Response Management (QRM) und die aktuellen Entwicklungen von Industrie 4.0 mit der Lean Production verglichen und zu einem gemeinsamen Ansatz zusammengeführt. Autoren aus Wissenschaft und industrieller Praxis bieten Lösungsvorschläge und zeigen konkrete Anwendungsbeispiele.Für die 2. Auflage wurden Inhalte aktualisiert und Fehler bereinigt.
Lean Production Simplified: A Plain-Language Guide To The World's Most Powerful Production System
by Pascal DennisLean Production Simplified, Third Edition is a plain language guide to the Lean production system written for the practitioner by a practitioner. It delivers a comprehensive insider's view of Lean manufacturing. Organized around the image of the house of Lean production, the book helps the reader grasp both the system as a whole and the factors that animate it.
Lean Production Simplified: A Plain-Language Guide to the World's Most Powerful Production System
by Pascal DennisFollowing in the tradition of its Shingo Prize-winning predecessors, Lean Production Simplified, Third Edition gives a clear overview of the structure and tools of the Lean production system. Written for the practitioner by a practitioner, it delivers a comprehensive insider's view of Lean management. The author helps readers grasp the system as a
LEAN Production Training für Praxis und Studium – 35 Übungen mit Lösungen: Basierend auf dem Buch „LEAN Production – einfach und umfassend“
by Roman Hänggi Patrick Balve Lukas BuddeKeine Produktion ist perfekt. In jedem Prozess schleicht sich Verschwendung ein. Sie macht ihn langsam und teuer. Ware liegt im Lager herum, die Fertigung findet in unnötig großen Losen statt oder Mitarbeiter warten unproduktiv, um ein nächstes Teil zu produzieren. Das Ergebnis sind hohe Produktionskosten und enttäuschte Kunden.Lean Production geht nun diese Verschwendungen in allen Prozessen an. Aber wie setzt man nun die verschiedensten Lean Prinzipien und Methoden konkret um? Der Erfolg von Lean Production liegt jedoch im Tun und gerade da setzt das Buch an. Die 35 Übungen aus der Praxis zeigen detailliert auf, wie die Lean Ansätze angewendet und erfolgreich umgesetzt werden. Die Lösungen werden mit Praxis-Tipps zur Umsetzung aus der umfassenden Erfahrung der Autoren ergänzt. Die Übungen werden in der LeanClean AG anschaulich mit vielen Bildern und Diagrammen umgesetzt – konkret, einfach undumfassend erklärt.
Lean Project Management: This Book Includes: Lean Guide + Agile Project Management. Practical Guide For Managing Projects, Productivity, Profits Of Enterprises Or Startups With Lean, Scrum, Agile
by Claus HüsselmannMany organisations face the challenge of making their project management more agile. However, the circumstances are often not suitable for this: The desired agility either does not fit the existing projects, or there is a lack of sufficient systematics. Lean Project Management shows how the advantages of different Lean Project Management methods – adaptive, targeted and flexible – can be combined. In addition to the established methods of classic and agile project management, proven methods and tools from Lean Management are used and further developed with a view to the requirements of project management (such as Gemba, 5S and more). The book shows how an organisation can systematically professionalise its project management, and make it more flexible in a targeted manner, in order to achieve more value with less effort. Aimed at students on postgraduate courses in business and project management as well as professional project managers working in organisations both large and small, Lean Project Management is a clear and comprehensive guide to combining the best methods to achieve optimal results.
Lean Project Management – Wie man den Lean-Gedanken im Projektmanagement einsetzen kann
by Rainer ErneDieses Buch zeigt, wie die Prinzipien des Lean Managements auf das Projektmanagement übertragen werden und wie einige typische Probleme des Projektmanagements damit gelöst werden können. Der Autor beschreibt zunächst theoretisch fundiert, worum es sich beim Projektmanagement handelt und erläutert dessen Aufgaben und Methoden sowie dessen Grenzen. Er beschreibt weiterhin, wie der Lean-Gedanke entstanden ist und leitet daraus fünf Grundsätze ab, die auch auf das Projektmanagement übertragbar sind. Entlang dieser Prinzipien beleuchtet der Autor anschließend typische aktuelle Herausforderungen des Projektmanagements und zeigt auf, wie diese Herausforderungen durch Grundsätze des Lean Project Managements bewältigbar sind. Dabei bleibt er nicht auf der Ebene von Grundsätzen stehen, sondern beschreibt konkrete Aufgaben und Werkzeuge, die vor allem für erfahrene Praktiker des Projektmanagements eine Hilfestellung sein sollen.
Lean Project Management - How to Apply Lean Thinking to Project Management
by Rainer ErneThis book shows how the principles of Lean Management can be applied to project management and how some typical problems of project management can be solved by this. The author first provides a theoretical description of what project management is about and explains its tasks and methods as well as its limitations. He also describes how the Lean idea came about and derives five principles from it that can also be applied to project management. Along these principles, the author then elaborates typical current challenges of project management and shows how these challenges can be tackled through Lean Project Management. In doing so, he does not stop at the level of principles, but describes specific tasks and tools that are useful especially for experienced practitioners of project management. This book is a translation of the original German 1st edition Lean Project Management – Wie man den Lean-Gedanken im Projektmanagement einsetzen kann by Rainer Erne, published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2019. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.
Lean RFS (Repetitive Flexible Supply): Putting the Pieces Together
by Ian Fraser Glenday Rick SatherIs it possible to be repetitive and flexible at the same time? Using proven examples and quantifiable evidence, Lean RFS (Repetitive Flexible Supply): Putting the Pieces Together demonstrates that repetitive flexible supply (RfS) is not only possible, but that its implementation can help you reach a new level of improved performance in manufacturin
Lean Safety: Transforming your Safety Culture with Lean Management
by Robert HafeyWhile worker safety is often touted as a company�s first priority, more often than not, safety activity is driven by compliance to legislation rather than any safety improvement initiative. Lean takes a proactive approach � it is not contingent on legislation. A serious Lean effort will tear apart an old inefficient entitlement-riddled culture and
Lean Six Sigma: A DMAIC Roadmap and Tools for Successful Improvements Implementation
by Mohammad H. Al-RifaiThis book is a comprehensive guide that equips organizations and individuals with the necessary tools and knowledge to streamline operations, optimize resources, and deliver superior customer value through implementing lean Six Sigma methodologies. It provides a practical roadmap for achieving process, product, and service improvement. The book introduces readers to the powerful framework of lean Six Sigma, combining lean and Six Sigma methodologies. It takes readers through the DMAIC model – Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control – providing a structured approach to identifying inefficiencies, reducing defects, and enhancing overall business performance. It covers essential topics such as lean Six Sigma leadership, change management, project management, and a detailed explanation of each phase of the DMAIC process. This book is designed to cater to a diverse audience, including executives, managers, quality professionals, improvement professionals, engineers, operations professionals, customer service professionals, and students. The book offers practical knowledge, tools, and case studies to drive transformative change and build a sustainable competitive advantage.
Lean Six Sigma: Methoden zur Produktionsoptimierung
by Jörg Niemann Benedikt Reich Carsten StöhrDie Lean Six Sigma Werkstatt beschreibt wichtige praxisrelevante Methoden und Werkzeuge in der Optimierung von industriellen Produktionsstrukturen. Neben den theoretischen Grundlagen wird für jede Methode umfangreiches „Hands-on“ Übungsmaterial mit Lösungen bereitgestellt, um eine anwendungsnahe Wissensvermittlung zu gewährleisten. Das Buch unterstützt damit insbesondere Lehrende und Lernende bei der Vorbereitung und Durchführung ganzer Unterrichtseinheiten, die dann als Gruppenarbeiten in 13 Workshops vertiefend eingeübt und praxisnah durchgespielt werden können. Die spielerische Anwendung der Theorie über mehrere Spielrunden befähigt die Lernenden, die Methoden in der Praxis zu nutzen und den Erkenntnisgewinn im industriellen Umfeld anzuwenden.