Reading Material on Lean Manufacturing
Reading Material
A Study of the Toyota Production System. Shigeo Shingo.
Creating Continuous Flow. Mike Rother and Rick Harris.
An Action Guide for Managers, Engineers, and Production Associates.
How to create real, not fake, flow through your processes. Excellent material in an easy-to-read, workbook-like format
Creating Level Pull. Art Smalley.
Creating Mixed Model Value Streams. Kevin J. Duggan
Practical Lean Techniques for Building to Demand.
Practical lean techniques for building to demand. Highly recommended.
Kanban. Just-in-Time at Toyota. Japan Management Association
Japanese Manufacturing Techniques. Richard J. Schonberger
Just-in-Time. Making It Happen. William Sandras
Lean Production Simplified. Pascal Dennis.
A Plain-Language Guide to the World's Most Powerful Production System.
An excellent introduction to Lean concepts.
Lean Lexicon. Chet Marchwinski and John Shook.
A graphical glossary for Lean Thinkers.
Lean Standard System. Christopher Gray
Lean Thinking. Jim Womack and Dan Jones.
Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation.
The best introductory book on the subject of Lean Manufacturing
Learning to See. Mike Rother and John Shook.
Value-stream mapping to add value and eliminate waste. Excellent material in an easy-to-read, workbook-like format
Let's Fix It! Overcome the Crisis in Manufacturing. Richard J. Schonberger.
Research-based principles of manufacturing management.
Making Materials Flow. Rick Harris, Chris Harris, and Earl Wilson.
Designing material routes for lean production. Excellent material in an easy-to-read, workbook-like format.
Seeing the Whole. Dan Jones and Jim Womack.
Value-stream mapping to add value and eliminate waste across an entire Lean Enterprise. Excellent material in an easy-to-read, workbook-like format.
The New Manufacturing Challenge. Techniques for Continuous Improvement. Kiyoshi Suzaki.
Today and Tomorrow. Henry Ford.
Lean manufacturing concepts from the real Father of Lean.
Toyota Production System. Yasuhiro Monden.
The definitive study of TPS.
Toyota Production System. Beyond Large-Scale Production. Taiichi Ohno.
The Toyota Production System from the “Father of TPS.”
Value Stream Management. Don Tapping, Tom Luyster and Tom Shuker.
World Class Manufacturing. Richard J. Schonberger.