The author James P. Womach is the founder of lean production.
Lean thinking was summed up by James Womach and daniel jones through their own theory and practice during 15 years. The core of the content is to eliminate waste and create wealth.
The success of this book lies in its good summary of lean production methods, providing our readers with the core principles of lean as a guide for enterprise action, and at the same time externalizing and popularizing the disadvantages of traditional modern enterprises that are not suitable for the new economy with "waste", which is easier for enterprises to understand and accept.
Through on-the-spot investigation, the author of this book has learned the actual situation and experience of several representative large and small enterprises such as the United States, Germany and Japan. , and provides the best guide for those who are ready to enter the door of lean and further study and implement lean, thus becoming a classic work on lean.
The main core of this book is to understand waste, eliminate waste and create wealth. The main channel is to first understand the value of products (production and services) from the customer's point of view, rather than what kind of value the enterprise thinks customers need and make what customers like; Secondly, determine the value flow, find the circulation channels of products, find the waste here, and find ways to eliminate it. Third, let the products flow. Only continuous and planned flow can realize value and create wealth. Fourth, demand-driven, customer-centered, when customers need a product, design, plan and manufacture the product that users really need in the shortest time. This process is completed, and finally, step by step, cycle by cycle, to find out more in-depth waste.
2. Toyota production mode Taiichi Ono
Toyota Production Mode is a classic of field management and production management in the world. The most authoritative work of Toyota's mode of production is the most classic and important work of Mr. Taiichi Ono, the father of Japan's industrial revival and former vice president of Toyota Motor Corporation. Taiichi Ono is known as "the father of Japanese revival" and "the godfather of production management". The Toyota mode of production he created is a major breakthrough to the Ford mode of production, which once dominated the global industry, and has had a far-reaching impact all over the world. The system reveals the secrets of Toyota's Excellence, covering its timeliness, automation, kanban mode, standard operation, lean management and other production management concepts. It is the most authoritative work of Toyota's core competitiveness and the most important benchmark of global production management, and has become the authoritative teaching material for international enterprises to implement lean production. If you haven't seen Toyoda's Toyota production mode, you are really embarrassed to say that you know and understand lean production, let alone that your place has implemented lean production mode.
3. Learning observation, Mike rozelle, John Schuck
The author, Dr. Womach, is a pioneer of "lean enterprise" and advocates creating more value with less resources. This book shares Dr. Womach's unique insights on how to correctly use specific lean tools, how to use lean leadership in lean transformation, and how to make good use of lean management to maintain the sustainable development of lean enterprises. It not only reveals the principles of lean for readers, but also emphasizes the key to lean practice: "Go to the scene and ask five whys, and respect employees." This book emphasizes the VSM value stream as the breakthrough point, and comprehensively understands how to introduce lean production into the factory. It is easier for middle and senior cadres to grasp the improvement direction of enterprises from the overall situation when reading this book.
4. Toyota Model: 14 Management Principles of Lean Manufacturing Jeffrey Lake
Jeffrey Lake, a professor of industrial and operational management engineering systems at the University of Michigan, is one of the directors and founders of the Japanese technology management course "Lean Manufacturing and Product Development Certification Course". He has won the Xinxiang Excellence Award four times (established in memory of Shigeo Shingo, one of the founders of Toyota's production mode).
This book starts with the ideological and cultural foundation of establishing Toyota production mode by Toyota Company of Japan, expresses the core of eliminating waste by TPS through analysis and demonstration, expounds the principle of 14 for establishing Toyota production mode, and explains the principle and process of its operability; The theory and method of applying TPS to transform enterprises are put forward.
5. Gold Mine 2, Freddy Bole, Mike Bole
The author explains one of the most challenging tasks in lean practice with a vivid story: how to make management and team learn together and make continuous progress.
In the form of a novel, this book tells the story of the protagonist from "pursuing short-term interests and paying attention to the application of lean tools" to gradually understanding that "Lean means learning, improving and making continuous progress". Focusing on people's problems, this book understands the suffering and growth of the company's presidents, factory directors, team leaders, operators and people at different levels and departments in the company in the process of implementing lean reform and self-help, under two different management methods: traditional and lean. This process teaches readers that lean is not only the application of some methods and tools, but also a complete change of concepts and management methods. After reading this book, middle and senior management cadres in enterprises have a deeper understanding of the role of people in the implementation of lean production.