Lean Manufacturing /Kaizen
A Basic Lean Library


Tip for do-it-yourselfers: read all these before starting your Lean Manufacturing program (important: read our statement regarding this in Lean Manufacturing FAQ's).

1. Kaizen
Key to Japan's Competitive Success
By Masaaki Imai

2. Gemba Kaizen
By Masaaki Imai

3. Becoming Lean
Inside Stories of U.S. Manufacturers
By Jeffery K. Liker

4. Lean Thinking
Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation
By James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones

5. A Study of Toyota Production System
From an Industrial Engineering Viewpoint
By Shigeo Shingo,

6. Visual Systems
Harnessing the Power of a Visual Workplace
By Gwendolyn D. Galsworth

7. Zero Quality Control
Source Inspection and Poka-Yoke System
By Shigeo Shingo

8. A Revolution in Manufacturing
The SMED System
By Shigeo Shingo

9. 5 Pillars of the Visual Workplace
The Sourcebook for 5S Implementation
By Hiroyuki Hirano

10. Implementing a Lean Management System
By Thomas L. Jackson, with Karen R. Jones

11. Introduction to TPM
Total Productive Maintenance
By Seiichi Nakajima

12. Kaizen for Quick Changeover
Going Beyond SMED
By Kenichi Sekine and Keisuke Arai

13. One Piece Flow
Cell Design for Transforming the Production Process
By Kenichi Sekine

14. Poka-Yoke
Improving Production Quality by Preventing Defects
By Nikkan Kogyo Shimbu Ltd. and Factory Magazine (ed.)

15. Kanban: Just-in-Time at Toyota
Management Begins at the Workplace
By Japanese Management Association

16. The Machine That Changed the World
The Story of Lean Production
By James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, and Daniel Roos