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which will consolidate your actions and make the production in your company more effective and even.
- Diagnosis means that you base on facts, and not conjectures while implementing Lean.
- Workshops will prepare your workers and the company management to implement Lean Manufacturing.
- Implementation of one or more Lean Basic Tools: 5S, TPM , SMED, Kaizen Blitz and Suggestion System will provide you Lean base. By maintaining these basic tools at the acceptable level, you can decide to implement Lean Advanced Tools: Standardized Work, Pull System, VSM, One Piece Flow, MTM and TOC.
Lean Manufacturing - Produkowanie tylko tego, co jest potrzebne,
tylko wtedy kiedy jest potrzeba, z użyciem minimalnych zasobów [ James Womack ]
Author: Jeffrey K. Liker
Title: The Toyota Way
ISBN: 83-88970-31-3 Format 158/233
480 pp
Price 69 PLN
We got to know about the book "The Toyota Way" from students at postgraduate Production Management studies at Tischner European University in Cracow. At fourth or fifth lecture, they started a discussion with lecturers quoting excerpts from Jeffrey K. Liker publication and comparing it with the reality existing in production plants where they were working and trying on implementing Lean Manufacturing. After a month, a cult of Liker gripped almost everybody and copies of books were passed on from hand to hand. One of readers wrote on MT Biznes website - "I could not assume how much “The Toyota Way” will change my present occupational situation (…).” I have been working on optimisation of business processes for a few years. Unfortunately, during realization of projects I encountered numerous problems which essence was often obscure for me (...). Jeffrey K. Liker’s book “The Toyota Way – 14 Management Principles of the World’s Greatest Manufacturer” changed my way of perceiving the operational quality and effectiveness. I have understood that even the most advanced statistical tools will not bring the expected results if there is no order, care about quality and standards (5S) at your workplaces (gemba). And management shall support people from organization in places where the added value for Customers (gemba) is produced, and not from office spaces or through presentations full of colourful slides (muda)… Joining this opinion, we place the book “The Toyota Way” in our bookshop as checked and useful item praised by practitioners. We present below some information from publisher and as always, a list of content and some excerpts for those who have not made up their mind yet. Publisher information
During his 20 years of work over the book, Professor Jeffrey Liker had an unconstrained freedom of access to company managers, its workers,and factories in Japan and United States. The book “The Toyota Way” reveals 14 Management Principles which are the support of the world-famous Toyota system of Lean Manufacturing. The reader will find out how the company creates an ideal environment for implementing Lean Manufacturing techniques and tools by:
- creating the atmosphere of constant improvement and learning,
- satisfying customer’s needs (with simultaneous elimination of waste),
- achieving high quality without making corrections,
- educating own leaders instead of recruiting them from other companies,
- educating all workers in problem solving,
- developing the company together with its suppliers and partners – what is advantageous for all parties.
Toyota system has initiated the global revolution in production and service industry. The Toyota Way explains the evolution of company production system as the new paradigm of perfection in manufacturing. It describes companies from various trades such as health care, heavy industry, production of pharmaceutical agent and construction industry which have achieved a spectacular improvement in their results by using Toyota method. {mospagebreak}This book also clarifies how to create the quality culture similar to Toyota style. How to improve the rate of processes in the company, increase products and services quality and reduce costs regardless of trade. The Toyota Way is an inspiring handbook for those who want to follow the incredible success of this company. Dr. Jeffrey K. Liker is Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering at Michigan University and co-founder of two educational programmes conducted at this university: Japan Technology Management Programme and Lean Manufacturing and Product Development Certificate. Dr Liker was awarded Shingo Prize for Excellence four times. His publications on Toyota were published in "The Harvard Business Review", "Sloan Management Review" and other leading scientific journals. Dr Liker is a principle of Optiprise - consulting company specializing in Lean Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management. He was the editor of the book Becoming Lean: Experiences of U. S. Manufacturers which was awarded Shigeo Shingo price in 1998 for excellence in studies on manufacture.
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Handbook on quality management and control for first-line workers
Compiled by: Training and Educational Centre for Foreign Countries
Department of Matsushita Corp. Quality Control
Published by: Wydawnictwo Informacji Zawodowej Weka, Warsaw 2002.
Price: 39 PLN
211 pp