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This works with a lot of indoctrination with exercises of bowing to the masters in the east: It is unfortunate but necessary that some Toyota drivers must be sacrificed for the overall good of society.So as to not muda Internet electrons, read this review on this book. The author's example of mind-set of the workers. doing all steps on each newsletter before starting the next newsletter. Or she can force the children to help with the now "chore" or other chore while Mother gets her newsletters done. But while the Japanese may have ninjas and 'Asian sexual secrets,' they haven't discovered any new principles of manufacturing that we insecure Americans didn't already know a long time ago. So, beyond example: Next, the consulting locust flies in with kaikaku, stops the newsletter production line, fixes the value stream the Toyota way, takes all the cash he can from weak management bedazzeled by Lean terminology, then flies away.
It's not another "best thing I ever read in my life (today)" review by one who drank the kool-aid: Hot Air and Vague Puffery, December 29, 2005 By Fuzzbean (Nangoku, Japan) - See all my reviews "This review is from: Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation, Revised and Updated (Hardcover) I think this book is largely bogus. P.22, the 6 and 9 year children of one, preparing their mother's newsletters in batch steps vs. It is correct with facts to back up claims. What is left. Disheartened 6 and 9 year old child-laborers, who instead of mild praise for their work are insulted and the mother-manager, who has to take her newsletters and stuff them herself. Sure there is logic in having an efficient system to your manufacturing process and in buying the machines you actually need instead of something too big or too inflexible.
Despite the stylish Japanese mumbo-jumbo, there isn't much in this 'lean thinking' that Henry Ford didn't already have figured out by 1914, although the limitations of the technology of that day prevented him from implementing his ideas fully."more.
This is an excellent book on lean operations. Well documented and reality-tested.Written in plain language, well focused to people who want to learn and understand lean operations.An excellent guide for implementation
Had I not needed to read this book for an exam, I likely would have set it down during this part and not picked it up again.My favorite chapter in the book is Chapter 13: Dreaming about Perfection in Part III. I found Parts I - Lean Principals, III - Lean Enterprise, & IV - Epilogue most useful. This is the revised and updated version of the 1996 edition, however the only change is the edition of a Part IV Epilogue written in 2003.For one of the first books to explore the concepts of Lean and the Toyota Production System (TPS) it does a fairly good job. The author takes 5 common activities and "dreams" about how they would operate if they were truly lean. Part II - From Thinking to Action: The Lean Leap, took up half of the book 170 pages of 340, to explain the lean journey of multiple companies of different sizes and cultures. While I found some of the examples to be useful, all of them were somewhat vague and very drawn out. Not just by implementing various tools and techniques but by truly revolutionizing them from the perspective of the customer. It really drove home what breakthrough concepts or paradigm shifts look like.Overall I would recommend The Toyota Way over this book as a broad overview of what the concept of Lean is.
The concepts in the book are true and very well established. The problem underlies with business thinking preaching "lean thinking" at every meeting and thus drives the market price of this book up. The book was good but way too expensive.
I ordered six copies of this book for my workplace. I ordered used copies not knowing exactly what condition they would in. I was pleasantly surprised to find them in very good condition when I received them and would have no problem ordering again.
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