Hardcover: 566 pages
Publisher: Productivity Press; 4 edition (October 5, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 143982097X
ISBN-13: 978-1439820971
Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 1.2 x 9.3 inches
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With all of the recent attention to "Lean Manufacturing" (Womak, The Machine That Changed The World, Lean Thinking), this book, now in its third edition, is different. Rather than telling you how to implement the Toyota Production System, Monden gives the reader a comprehensive technical description of how the entire system functions, and how the pieces work together to form the most effecient production system known.This is not, however, a generic overview. This book covers Toyota's implementation as it applies to building their products. Nevertheless, the principles translate to every industry where things are made.Any serious practitioner or industry leader attempting to implement or operate a lean production system needs to read, and re-read, this book.
Throughout of this book you can find specific solutions for a lot of problems in the actual industry. Every single concept is transformed in a new idea with this wonderful tools that you need to learn if you are working at any industry with needs to reduce their waste, costs, improve the assembly lines,etc. As student of a master degree this book allowed me to understand concepts and information about the process of the TPS. Totally worth it.
I have been practicing the application of Lean principles for 13 years and have read many books on the subject. I thought this book would make a nice addition to the library, but I was mistaken. The book starts out okay, but then seems to lack focus and direction. I am a linear thinker and the book just seemed to jump around. The examples were weak and the illustrations were often times on different pages (frustrating). There are a few nuggets of details, but overall I found the book of little value and would not recommend it to anyone.
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