Book synergizes lean thinking

A Synergistic Approach to Minimizing Waste, shows how modern companies can use lean techniques to achieve the kind of success that Ford, Toyota, and Dell Computers have realized.

A new publication from the American Society for Quality, Lean Enterprise: A Synergistic Approach to Minimizing Waste, shows how modern companies can use lean techniques to achieve the kind of success that Ford, Toyota, and Dell Computers have realized.

The book presents lean enterprise as a set of mutually supporting techniques and programs, all of which focus on the elimination of non-value-adding activities from the enterprise.

The ability to identify these non-value-adding activities is vital to creating a lean enterprise and this book will equip the reader with the skills to achieve optimal results.

The authors, William Levinson and Raymond Rerick, describe many lean manufacturing practices including 5S, supply chain management, kanban, kaizen, quick changeover, poka-yoke, and more.

They also devote a chapter to the Theory of Constraints (TOC) and how it relates to lean manufacturing.

In Lean Enterprise, they compare TOC with just-in-time manufacturing.

They also examine TOC performance measurements and improvement priorities, and how TOC applies to product and process development.

By using the change management information contained in the book, manufacturers will be able to convince reluctant employees, management, and shareholders that lean manufacturing will significantly impact their organization.

Lean Enterprise is available through American Technical Publishers at www.ameritech.co.uk/productivity and sells for ?27.00 GBP.

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