Front Cover -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Race without a Finish Line -- Chapter 2. Fundamentals of Continuous Improvement -- Chapter 3. Value Added and Waste Elimination -- Chapter 4. Customer-Focused Quality -- Section II. Elements of Lean Production --...

"The success of a Lean manufacturing program depends far more on organization-wide leverage of Lean manufacturing tools than it does on the tools themselves. To this the organization must add the human relations aspects that earn buy-in and engagement by all members of the workforce, to the...

"Preface This book is designed to walk companies through the implementation of lean manufacturing within their companies. We start with the fundamentals and build upon them to teach all the tools and processes needed to implement lean manufacturing and the Toyota Production System (TPS). We...