Lean Toolbox - Softcover

Bicheno, John

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Synopsis

The Lean Toolbox is the essential quick reference guide to the concepts and techniques of lean operations and the lean enterprise. This second edition incorporates new and updated sections.

Introduced by Dan Jones, co-author of Lean Thinking, this guide to lean management includes sections on lean philosophy and waste, planning, design, mapping, improvement, production, the Goldratt principles, quality, suppliers, people and measurement. Each section's topics provide brief overviews in the style of its companion volume "The Quality 60".

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About the Author

John Bicheno has graduate degrees in Engineering, Management and Systems, but more importantly, almost two decades of exposure to Lean. He is a former Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand and now directs the MSc in Lean Operations at Cardiff Business School. He also acts as "Lean Counsellor" to several organziations.

John began "peeling the Lean onion" in 1984 when he worked with Toyota, GEC and Afrox in South Africa. He is still peeling.

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ISBN 10:  0954124448 ISBN 13:  9780954124441
Publisher: Picsie Books, 2008
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