Screen LibraryLean thinking : banish waste and create wealth in your corporation /
Offers insight into how to implement an efficiency system and cost-cutting strategies that are based on what customers really want, outlining a process of creating value, explaining how to identify and remove unnecessary steps, and making suggestions on how to reduce lead time.
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Free Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2003] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First Free Press edition, revised and updated. |
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Offers insight into how to implement an efficiency system and cost-cutting strategies that are based on what customers really want, outlining a process of creating value, explaining how to identify and remove unnecessary steps, and making suggestions on how to reduce lead time. |
| Carrier Form: | 396 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-375) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780743249270 0743249275 0743231643 9780743231640 |
| Index Number: | HD58 |
| CLC: | F273 |
| Call Number: | F273/W872/rev.ed. |
| Contents: | Preface: from lean production to lean enterprise -- Preface to the 2003 edition -- pt. 1. Lean principles -- Introduction: lean thinking versus muda -- Value -- The value stream -- Flow -- Pull -- Perfection -- pt. 2. From thinking to action: the lean leap -- The simple case -- A harder case -- The acid test -- Lean thinking versus German technik -- Mighty Toyota; tiny showa -- An action plan -- pt. 3. Lean enterprise -- A channel for the stream; a valley for the channel -- Dreaming about perfection -- pt. 4. Epilogue -- The steady advance of lean thinking -- Institutionalizing the revolutio |