The Lean Toolbox: The Essential Guide to Lean Transformation

Holweg, Matthias,Bicheno, John

ISBN 10: 0954124456 / ISBN 13: 9780954124458

Published by Picsie Books, 2008

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Title: The Lean Toolbox: The Essential Guide to ...

Publisher: Picsie Books

Publication Date: 2008

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 4th Edition

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Synopsis:

'The Lean Toolbox 4th Edition, the Essential Guide to Lean Transformation' is written for practitioners and for students, and is the extensively revised version of the best selling 'The New Lean Toolbox'. The book has sections on The Philosophy of Lean, Value and Waste, Transformation Frameworks, Deployment, Preparing for Flow, Mapping, Layout and Cell Design, Scheduling, TOC, Quality, Improvement, Managing Change, Sustainability, New Product Development, The Lean Supply Chain, and Accounting and Measurement.

About the Author:

John Bicheno is the Director of the MSc program in Lean Operations at the Lean Enterprise Research Centre (LERC) of the Cardiff Business School, Wales. At the time of writing, this is the only Masters program in the world devoted to Lean, and is taught on-site at factory locations.

John has graduate degrees in Engineering, Systems and Management, and is CFPIM certified by APICS. Following 10 years in operations management and engineering, he started his Lean journey while at the University of the Witwatersrand in the early 1980’s, and continues to learn. He has been a mentor, trainer and consultant to scores of companies, and is on the board of AME UK.