Operations Books
Four Types of Problems / Managing to Learn Set
The perfect problem solving gift set for all lean thinkers.
View productLearning to See
Value-stream maps are the blueprints for lean transformations and Learning to See is an easy-to-read, step-by-step instruction manual that teaches…
View productBuilding a Lean Fulfillment Stream
This workbook explains step-by-step a comprehensive, real-life implementation process for optimizing your entire fulfillment stream from raw materials to customers,…
View productCreating Continuous Flow
This workbook explains in simple, step-by-step terms how to introduce and sustain lean flows of material and information in pacemaker…
View productCreating Lean Dealers
Car manufacturing has been transformed by Lean over the last 20 years yet car dealerships have remained virtually untouched by…
View productCreating Level Pull
Creating Level Pull shows you how to advance a lean manufacturing transformation from a focus on isolated improvements to improving…
View productCreating Continuous Flow / Making Materials Flow Set
Buy the two workbooks on flow together and save 15%. Continuous flow cells need a lean material-handling system to supply…
View productKaizen Express
Kaizen Express is a concise but precise illustrated guide to the fundamentals of the Toyota Production System (TPS) and how…
View productLean Lexicon 5th Edition
The fifth edition of the Lexicon, first published in January 2003, is 140 pages, containing 60+ illustrations and 207 key…
View productLearning to See / Seeing the Whole Value Stream Set
A special discounted combination package of two important and complementary lean tools, Learning to See and Seeing the Whole Value…
View productLearning to See / Creating Continuous Flow Set
Buy LEI's first two workbooks together and save 15%. Learning to See, a key initial step in a lean conversion, teaches…
View productLEI Workbook Set
Save on learning how to implement lean at the process, plant, and entire value-stream level with these workbooks by the…
View productMaking Materials Flow
Making Materials Flow describes in plain language another step in implementing a complete lean business system by explaining how to supply purchased parts…
View productPerfecting Patient Journeys
Perfecting Patient Journeys is a guide to value-stream improvement for leaders of healthcare organizations who want to implement lean thinking…
View productSeeing the Whole Value Stream
For the tens of thousands of users of value-stream mapping at the facility level, Seeing the Whole Value Stream provides…
View productThe Gold Mine
The Gold Mine deftly weaves together the technical and human pieces of implementing lean manufacturing in an engaging story that readers…
View productThe Gold Mine (Audio CD)
The Gold Mine deftly weaves together the technical and human pieces of implementing lean manufacturing in an engaging story that readers…
View productThe Lean Bakery
Food should be fresh. Yet we produce it in big batches. If fast-moving, small batch, one-piece flow can work with…
View productThe Toyota Way of Dantotsu Radical Quality Improvement (Paperback)
In Japanese, "dantotsu" means "extreme," "radical," or "unparalleled." Toyota veteran Sadao Nomura shares the story of the dramatic improvement he and his…
View productWelcome Problems, Find Success – Creating Toyota Cultures Around the World
In this book, author Nate Furuta, former chair and CEO of Toyota Boshoku America Inc., shares his decades of experience directly…
View productLean Solutions
In Lean Solutions, James Womack and Daniel Jones deconstruct this broken producer-consumer model and show businesses how to repair it.…
View productLean Thinking, 2nd Edition
Lean Thinking is about case studies from a wide range of industries, to distill out the essential principles of lean…
View productThe Machine That Changed the World
When The Machine That Changed the World was first published in 1990, Toyota was half the size of General Motors.…
View productThe Power of Process – A Story of Innovative Lean Process Development
True Lean process design goes well beyond forcing concepts and slogans, it is purposeful, scientific, and adaptable because every situation…
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