ISBN	Society	Title	Author	Biblio	Description	List Price	Pictures
4-569-53935-1	PHP	Putting 5S to Work: A Practical Step-by-Step Approach	Hiroyuki Hirano	1995; 200 Pages; Soft Cover	This heavily illustrated pocket book is designed for supervisors and team leaders as a practical program to introduce the 5S's in their section. The many photographs show exactly what the author is looking for when introducing the 5S's into a plant, and the book can be used as a study aid by shopfloor teams who have been chosen to implement the 5S's as part of their improvement activities. Contents: STEP 1: Preparation; Recording the Present Situation; Eliminating Unnecessary Items; Fixing Storage Places; Consolidating Daily Cleaning Procedures; Maintaining a Spotless Workplace; Visual Control in the Workplace. STEP 2: Controlling Stock Levels; Making it Easy to Use and Return Things; Making Cleaning and Checking Habitual; Maintaining a Spotless Workplace; Maintaining Standards Throughout the Company. STEP 3: Avoiding Unnecessary Items; Avoiding Disorganization; Cleaning Without Getting Dirty Again; Preventing Degradation of the Environment; Systematizing Training; Has Your Factory Become a First Class 5S Factory?	£24.00	4-569-53935-1.jpg	View
0-9513-8301-9	PICSIE Books	Cause and Effect Lean: Lean Operations, Six Sigma and Supply Chain Essentials	John Bicheno	2000; 88 Pages; Spiral Bound	Previous editions of this guide were called Cause and Effect JIT and became the standard quick reference guide to Lean and JIT. Since then much has happened in Lean, Womack and Jones have articulated the five principles of Lean Thinking, Six Sigma has come into it's own, supply chain thinking has developed significantly, the concept of Kaizen and Kaizen blitz has moved forward, 5S is well established, and measurement has taken huge strides forward. The new edition incorporates these and other improvements, while still retaining the successful cause and effect diagram format. The aim remains to give readers a fast, yet full overview of lean operations. As before, the book is not intended to be a complete reference work on Lean operations but rather as a quick reference guide.	£8.00	0-9513-8301-9.jpg	View
0-9513-829-9-3	PICSIE Books	The Lean Toolbox, Second Edition	John Bicheno	2000; 204 Pages; Soft Cover	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. Large-multiple copies of the first edition were acquired by, amongst others, Ford Motor Company, Delphi Automotive, the Welsh Development Agency, British Steel, and Rolls Royce Allison. Many consultancies acquired multiple copies and the book was used on programs run at the universities of Cambridge, Cardiff, Cranfield, Warwick, and Ashridge. Chapters include: Philosophy; Planning; Design and New Products; Analysis and Mapping; Improvement; Production; Goldratt; Quality; Suppliers and Distribution; People; Measurement.	£15.00	0-9513-829-9-3.jpg	View
0-9541244-0-5	PICSIE Books	The Quality 75: Towards Six Sigma Performance in Service and Manufacturing	John Bicheno	2002; 124 Pages; Spiral Bound	This is a quick reference guide to all the major quality tools, techniques and concepts relevant to service and manufacturing. Exceptional value, the book is written in a no-woffle, snappy style, relevant to all in any organization requiring basic instruction, reminding and inspiration. This edition is the latest in a series beginning with 34 for Quality and progressing through Quality 50 and Quality 60. This edition includes new sections on Six Sigma, ISO 900:2000 and service quality. Virtually every section of Quality 60 has been updated and 15 additional topics added. Former editions received literally scores of unsolicited commendations. Well-thumbed copies were to be found in the briefcases of consultants, managers and team leaders and was widely prescribed at universities for courses in quality and general management.	£12.00	0-9541244-0-5.jpg	View
0-95412-441-3	PICSIE Books	The New Lean Toolbox Towards Fast, Flexible Flow	John Bicheno	2004; 204 Pages; Soft Cover	The New Third Edition of The Lean Toolbox. The essential quick reference guide to the concepts and techniques of lean operations and the lean enterprise. Contents: A Lean Chronology; Philosophy; Lean Frameworks; Value, Strategy, Planning, Deployment; The Kano model; Preparing for Flow; Mapping, Audits and Analysis; Mapping Overview; Brown Paper and Supply Chain Structure; Product Family Analysis; Creating the Future State (1); Moving lines and Pulse lines; Creating the Future State (2); Theory of Constraints and Factory Physics; Quality; Improvement; Improvement or ‘Blitz’ events; Mess Management; Root causes; A Warning on Lean Improvement; People and Sustainability; New Product Development and Introduction; Lean Supply.	£16.00	0-95412-441-3.jpg	View
0-13-905720-X	Prentice Hall	Mechanical Behavior of Materials: Engineering Methods for Deformation, Fracture, and Fatigue, Second Edition	Norman E. Dowling	1999; 830 Pages; Hard Cover	Comprehensive in scope and readable, this book explores the methods used by engineers to analyze and predict the mechanical behavior of materials. Author Norman E. Dowling provides thorough coverage of materials testing and practical methods for forecasting the strength and life of mechanical parts and structural members. Professor Dowling covers yield and fracture criteria, fracture mechanics for cracked, fatigue life estimation, plastic deformation, and creep deformation and rupture. The treatment of fatigue extends to irregular load-time histories and considers the topic from three viewpoints: the traditional stress-based approach, the crack growth approach, and the strain-based approach. Also features reviews of materials science and stress and strain. This Second Edition includes updated coverage throughout, additions to the already numerous worked examples, and two appendices.	£40.00	0-13-905720-X.jpg	View
0-13-025867-9	Prentice Hall	Water and Wastewater Technology, Fourth Edition	Mark J. Hammer and Mark J. Hammer, Jr.	2001; 536 Pages; Hard Cover	This book provides fundamental principles and current practices in drinking water treatment processes and distribution, as well as wastewater collection, treatment, and sludge processing. The subject matter is carefully integrated so readers can clearly understand the interrelationships between individual unit operations and integration of systems as a whole. Introductory chapters provide a review of related sciences applicable to drinking water and wastewater-biology, chemistry, hydraulics, and hydrology. Sample problems follow each chapter, making this book an excellent teaching/study text. Extensively illustrated.	£43.00	0-13-025867-9.jpg	View
0-13-658683-X	Prentice Hall	Petroleum Production Systems	Michael J. Economics; A. Daniel Hill and Christine	2003	Providing comprehensive coverage of the key facets of petroleum production engineering, this volume synthesizes reservoir and well performance with an emphasis on wellbore flow considerations. Authors Michael J. Economics, A. Daniel Hill and Christine Ehlig merge their individual areas of expertise to offer readers a cohesive examination of the field of petroleum production engineeering. Topics include: The Role of Petroleum Production Engineering *Production from Undersaturated Oil Reservoirs *Production from Two-Phase Reservoirs *Production from Natural Gas Reservoirs *The Near-Wellbore Condition and Damage Characterization Skin Effects *Gravel Pack Completions *Wellbore Flow Performance *Well Deliveribility *Forecast of Well Production *Modern Well Test Analysis and Data Acquisition *Well Diagnosis with Production logging Matrix Acidizing - Acid/Rock Interactions *Sandstone Acidizing Design *Carbonate Acidizing Design *Hydraulic Fracturing for Well Stimulation Design of Hydraulic Fracture Treatments *Evaluating Performance of Fractured and Long-Flowing Wells *Gas Lift *Pump-Assisted Lift *Systems Analysis *Environmental Concerns in Petroleum Production Engineering.	£101.00	0-13-658683-X.jpg	View
1-56327-312-8	Productive Publications	P-M Analysis: An Advanced Step in TPM Implementation	Mitsugu Kaneda, Yoshifumi Kimura, Shirose Kunio	2004; 198 Pages; Soft Cover	In this large-format implementation manual, TPM experts explain P-M Analysis. (A methodology that makes zero losses a reality in your TPM program.) P-M Analysis is designed to help your TPM teams analyze and eliminate chronic problems that have been neglected or unresolved in the past. Chronic quality defects and other chronic losses are hard to eradicate, because they typically have multiple, interrelated causes that vary with every occurrence. Common improvement strategies, like cause-and-effect analysis, are usually ineffective in dealing with such complex problems. P-M Analysis was specially developed to overcome the weaknesses of traditional methods. It offers a rigorous 8-step method for ensuring that all possible factors are identified and investigated. Through P-M Analysis, teams really get in touch with their equipment. Its unique skill-building process improves technological know-how while delivering solutions to persistent problems. The first four steps of this rigorous 8-step program help teams isolate and understand the root causes of defects and failures within main equipment mechanisms and peripheral systems. The final four steps provide a systematic approach for effectively controlling those causes.	£38.00	1-56327-312-8.jpg	View
1-55270-051-8	Productive Publications	Winning Over Depression: Bio-Energetic Therapy to Overcome Sadness, Fear and Anger	Dr John R.M. Goyeche	2000; 130 Pages; Soft cover	This book will appeal to the general public as well as practitioners of psychiatry, medicine and health care. It is written in a very straight forward style that is easy to understand. It provides the reader with a great deal of insight into the causes of depression and offers practical answers in order to overcome it. The author presents evidence, in the form of a number of case studies, that bio-energetic therapy can be effective in relieving depression. Regardless of psychiatric diagnosis or classification, it would appear that depressed patients who have a history of suppressed anger; owing to either current or historical trauma; profit from bio-energetic therapy.	£12.00	1-55270-051-8.jpg	View
1-55270-116-6	Productive Publications	Critical Analysis in Decision-Making: Conventional and "Outside the Box" Approaches to Developing Solutions to Todays Business Challenges	James Briggs	2002; 234 Pages; Soft Cover	What is it that enables some people to make good business decisions more effectively, more often, than others? Great leaders in the public service, business, and the nonprofit sectors, remind us that an effective decision - making process is the key to solving problems for any organization. Effective organizations, both large and small, search for leaders who have good problem solving skills. In the past, the process of making good decisions was handed down from generation to generation by individual managers and through organizational practices. Today's mobile, increasingly entrepreneurial workforce has not yet enjoyed the benefits of this type of mentorship. Middle management layers have been eliminated, and training budgets slashed. The velocity of business today pressures us into thinking we can (and must) skip steps in the decision-making process for the sake of expediency. However, the "quick and dirty" approach ultimately takes longer, and as a result, produces fewer viable solutions. James Briggs brought his pioneering experience creating new markets for IBM, to mentor decision-makers in Silicon Valley - working with start-ups as well as established companies. Organizations like Oracle, Seagate and Netscape have used this decision-making approach to capitalize on opportunities and to address challenges around the world. Few executives teach to others what they have learnt themselves. Mr Briggs is the exception.	£22.00	1-55270-116-6.jpg	View
1-56327-277-6	Productive Publications	Winning Score - Audio Book - Compact Disk: How to Design and Implement Organizational Scorecards	Mark Graham Brown	2002; CD-ROM	In developing a balanced scorecard approach to performance measurement, organizations must link selected metrics to their mission, values, vision, and key success factors. In Winning Score: How to Design and Implement Organizational Scorecards, renowned business consultant Mark Graham Brown draws upon years of experience to help the reader understand and implement performance metrics and the organizational scorecard concept.	£23.00	1-56327-277-6.jpg	View
1-56327-310-1	Productive Publications	Accelerated Product Development: Combining Lean and Six Sigma for Peak Performance	Clifford Fiore	2004; 224 Pages; Hard Cover	In Accelerated Product Development: Combining Lean and Six Sigma for Peak Performance, Clifford Fiore provides the blueprint for implementing the key elements for improving the product development process. His innovative and powerful work represents the first book to couple the proven concepts of Lean and Six Sigma with the engineering processes of product development. His results, based on proven strategies and methodologies, enable companies to significantly reduce the time necessary to develop new products, dramatically reduce product cost, and improve product quality.	£34.00	1-56327-310-1.jpg	View
1-56327-296-2	Productive Publications	Lean Logistics: The Nuts and Bolts of Delivering Materials and Goods	Michel Baudin	2005; 350 Pages; Hard Cover	Are your warehouses full while production is stopped by shortages? Do you know what you have, and when the next replenishments will come? Do your customers complain that your lead times are too long and that your deliveries are late? Does the volume of your logistics activity vary erratically?Lean Logistics: The Nuts and Bolts of Delivering Materials and Goods by Michel Baudin addresses these issues, both the physical infrastructure of lean logistics and the information flows that compose its nervous system, as well as innovative approaches to supplier relations. Find out how to avoid shortages while maintaining low inventories and take advantage of the increased capacity and flexibility generated through lean manufacturing.	£38.00	1-56327-296-2.jpg	View
1-56327-297-0	Productive Publications	RSM Simplified: Optimizing Processes Using Response Surface Methods for Design of Experiments	Mark J Anderson	2004; 320 Pages; Soft Cover	RSM Simplified keeps formulas to a minimum and makes liberal use of figures, charts, graphs and checklists. It offers many relevant examples, with amusing sidebars and do-it-yourself exercises that will lead readers to the peak potential for their product quality and process efficiency. The authors, Mark J. Anderson and Patrick J. Whitcomb, are principals of Stat-Ease, a provider of DOE training, consulting, and software. They both are professional chemical engineers. Anderson has more of a business background while Whitcomb specializes in statistics. Incorporated into this book is the more advanced Design-Expert, version 7 software for Windows, with a 180-day trial, so the reader can do the complex statistical computations, generate the necessary graphics (2D and 3D maps) and perform the numerical optimization.	£38.00	1-56327-297-0.jpg	View
1-56327-298-9	Productive Publications	Andy & Me: Crisis and Transformation on the Lean Journey	Pascal Dennis	2005; 192 Pages; Soft Cover	Based on the author's personal experience with Toyota senseis and with companies in the midst of great change, Andy & Me is a business novel set in a failing New Jersey auto plant focusing on the tribulations of Tom Pappas, the plant manager. The situations, characters and plant "politics" will ring true with many readers. In a cool, readable style, Andy & Me follows Tom’s relationship with Andy Saito, a reclusive, retired Toyota guru whom Tom persuades to help save his plant through the "teaching" of legendary Toyota Production System (TPS). On this journey, the reader learns that TPS is more than just a collection of tools; it entails a new way of thinking and behaving. Though Tom finds success — both in his plant and in his personal life — he learns from Andy that successful improvement is "endless and eternal."	£15.00	1-56327-298-9.jpg	View
1-56327-299-7	Productive Publications	Transforming Strategy into Success: How to Implement a Lean Management System	George Shinkle, Reb Gooding, and Mike Smith	2004; Soft Cover	Transforming Strategy into Success introduces lean principles to the realm of corporate leadership and management. The authors provide a practical and comprehensive approach to implementing strategic intent in organizations through the use of lean management systems, strategic planning, lean enterprise management, leadership, and team building. This book is filled with real-life success stories that illustrate how companies have profited through the use of this lean methodology. Unique features include a new model for a lean management system, management systems diagramming, and a circular systems model for strategic direction setting. The approach presented is founded upon employee alignment through involvement and building employee buy-in to support implementation. Simple, comprehensive, and practical, Transforming Strategy into Success is a must read for lean practitioners, lean learners, and organizational leadership. Praise for Transforming Strategy into Success: "Transforming Strategy into Success contains the basic philosophy of the Toyota Production System applied to management. Everybody can utilize the content as a practical guide." - Takehiro Kubo, Group Manager, Overseas Customer Service Technical Division, Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan. "Impressive in its breadth, staggering in its implications. If you have been waiting for "Hands On, No Nonsense" material to help you understand the Lean Journey, Transforming Strategy into Success is it. Get started! Buy it! Use it! It works! I am now on my 6th "Lean Journey" and believe this is definitely a must read for my direct reports as this systematic approach will help you accomplish the initial steps on this journey in much less time." - Dr. Willie P. Ozbirn, Director North American Operations, Invensys Climate Controls, Invensys Plc. "Economic Security for nations will come from Technology Development and Commercialization of Intellectual Property. This book does an excellent job explaining about the "Lean" Concept to help companies be better, faster and cheaper than their competition. It is a must read . . . especially for the governments who want to have freedom, prosperity and High Tech Brain Trust jobs for their people." - Ilker "Ike" Bayraktar, Vice President, AeroVironment Inc. "The concepts and methodology described in Transforming Strategy into Success enabled us to achieve our growth and profit objectives. It is tremendous!" - Matthias M. Rosenbaum, Former Managing Director, KS Kolbenschmidt, Germany. "Outstanding. A wonderful methodology to apply lean principles to management systems and the total enterprise. It works." - Steve Davis, Engineering Director, Visteon Corporation.	£27.00	1-56327-299-7.jpg	View
1-56327-068-4	Productive Publications	Cost Reduction Systems: Target Costing and Kaizen Costing	Yasuhiro Monden	1995; 309 Pages; Hard Cover	Learn how to integrate the two important cost reduction systems that have revolutionized manufacturing. Target costing is used during the development and design stage of new products. It focuses on profit realization by planning quality products in the design and review stage. Kaizen costing helps you decrease production costs for existing products. Combining the target and kaizen methods leads to a complete cost reduction system that can be applied from product inception to completion.	£39.00	1-56327-068-4.jpg	View
1-896210-41-4	Productive Publications	The Lean Office: How to Use Just-in-Time Techniques to Streamline Your Office	Jim Thompson	1997; 138 Pages; Soft Cover	The Lean Office: How to Use Just-in-Time Techniques to Streamline Your Office is targeted to anyone who works in an office. It shows how lean production's systems can foster and nurture employee involvement and put excitement back into continuous improvement. It provides the long-awaited tools needed to improve office productivity. Most importantly, it reduces employee stress and frustration, while improving productivity. This book demonstrates how this should happen with employees, not to employees. The Lean Office is written in an easily readable, humorous style that allows its new ideas to be absorbed in small chunks by everyone. Contents: Chapter 1: Lean Office Production; Chapter 2: Eliminating Waste; Chapter 3: Standardized Work; Chapter 4: The 5Ss; Chapter 5: Visual Management; Chapter 6: Creating the Process.	£15.00	1-896210-41-4.jpg	View
1-55270-025-9	Productive Publications	Lean Production for the Office: Common Sense Ideas to Help Your Office Continuously Improve	Jim Thompson	2000; 136 Pages; Soft Cover	Lean Production for the Office: Common Sense Ideas to Help Your Office Continuously Improve is for anyone who works in an office and seeks practical information on how to make their continuous improvement program a huge success. Lean Production for the Office teaches you how to make your office smarter by focusing on the value-added elements while eliminating waste, and by replacing frustration with happiness. Contents: Introduction; Chapter 1: Eliminating Waste; Chapter 2: Kaizen Flow; Chapter 3: Teaching Concepts; Chapter 4: Lean Affects; Chapter 5: Perfection; Appendix: The Seven Types of Waste. About the Author: Jim Thompson studied lean production first hand as a member of the GM Technical Liaison Office with NUMMI (a GM/Toyota joint venture) in Fremont, California. It was there that he and his team began applying lean production techniques to the office environment. After fourteen years with General Motors, Thompson became Vice-President of Human Resources for the Walker Manufacturing Company, a division of Tenneco. Thompson is currently President of InSight Management, Inc., a lean production teaching and consulting firm located in Rochester, Michigan.	£15.00	1-55270-025-9.jpg	View
1-55270-121-2	Productive Publications	Modern Materials Management Techniques: A Complete Guide to Help You Plan, Direct, and Control the Purchase, Production.	Paula Mackie	350 Pages; Soft Cover	Storage, and distribution of goods in today’s competitive business environment are essentials of supply chain management. Materials management is the process in which we plan, direct, and control all phases of an organization’s operations relating to the acquisition of goods and services, from introduction to disposal, from suppliers to end users. Proper materials management techniques are critical to the success of every organization in both the public and private sectors. They invoke fiscal responsibility in the management of funds, thereby ensuring that full value and benefit are received for the money spent. This book will give materials and supply chain managers the tools and techniques to employ best material management practices. It will help them to enhance their skills and abilities and improve their service performance. It will also help create a workforce that is knowledgeable, flexible, and proactive. Each chapter begins with learning outcomes and concludes with a summary of chapter objectives and a quiz. About the Author: Paula Mackie has over twenty years experience in Material, Financial, Purchasing, and Supply Management, both in the private and public sectors. She is now a Help Desk's Analyst for the procurement requirements of a major Canadian government department. Mackie’s interest and commitment to this area has provided her with the insight and knowledge to write this book. With this book she has created a hands-on, user friendly package that covers all aspects of Modern Materials Management Techniques.	£52.00	1-55270-121-2.jpg	View
1-56327-286-5	Productive Publications	Implementing a Mixed Model Kanban System: The Lean Replenishment Technique for Pull Production	James Vatalaro, Robert Taylor	2003; 124 Pages; Soft Cover	When describing kanban implementation most information resources merely reference it without explaining it in technical terms or providing implementation details. Authors James Vatalaro and Robert Taylor address the need for kanban implementation guidance in Implementing a Mixed Model Kanban System: The Lean Replenishment Technique for Pull Production. Implementing a Mixed Model Kanban System is a comprehensive and in-depth guide to implementing a kanban within the value stream. Its plain-language approach provides step-by-step coverage and guidance of the implementation, metrics, and dynamics of an effective kanban system based on proven reliable methods honed through years of implementation experience within manufacturing and non-manufacturing environments. By focusing on a case study of a manufacturing company trying to create and maintain continuous flow in their value stream. Vatalaro and Taylor show the reader how to construct their own kanban process, from beginning to end. This book carefully identifies and explains each of the components of a kanban system within the context of pull production. The authors' common sense approach makes this book an excellent "on the floor" resource for all levels of "lean learners." In addition, a CD-ROM is included, containing the spreadsheets and forms discussed in the text.	£26.00	1-56327-286-5.jpg	View
1-56327-316-0	Productive Publications	The Lean Office: Collected Practices and Cases	N/A	2005; 128 Pages; Soft Cover	The Lean Office: Collected Practices and Cases is a compilation of articles previously published in our monthly newsletter, Lean Manufacturing Advisor. These articles discuss lean implementations in non-manufacturing operations, from design to processing invoices to customer service. Most articles are written in the form of case studies.	£11.00	1-56327-316-0.jpg	View
1-896210-99-6	Productive Publications	Effective Management: Interpersonal Skills That Will Help You Earn the Respect and Commitment of Employees	Dave Day Ph.D.	1999; 182 Pages; Soft Cover	This book examines 10 key interpersonal skills of the manager - from choosing a leadership style to the day of completing annual performance evaluations. Each chapter examines in depth the effects of the manager's actions and behaviors (intended or otherwise) with regard to each of the 10 interpersonal skills. Most importantly, a concerted effort is made to provide practical suggestions that you can use in your own efforts to increase the productivity level and commitment of your employees, both to your goals and those of the larger organization. This book is dedicated to first line managers, especially those who are entering the ranks of management for the very first time, either as new college graduates or employees recently promoted to the position of manager. At the same time, because it addresses important basics of effective management, the book is also a valuable resource for managers at all levels who want an in-depth review of core interpersonal skills.	£15.00	1-896210-99-6.jpg	View
1-55270-086-0	Productive Publications	Project Management: Welcome Opportunity or Awesome Burden?	Robert G. Edwards	2002; 170 Pages; Soft Cover	This concise, how-to, self help guide will help both aspiring and practicing project managers. Its content was developed during the author's forty-four years in professional engineering and project management. The principles and practices that he describes are based on his personal experience and can easily be applied to most simple or complex projects. Project management requires skills to plan and guide the coordinated effort of complex teams of engineers and laborers. It is essential requirement for any capital works projects or for designing and producing high-technology products. This book is entertaining and easy-to-read. It addresses the personal skills, attitudes, ethics, and responsibilities of project managers that are needed to succeed, regardless of the complexity or size of the project it should be on the bookshelf of every project manager and professional engineer.	£15.00	1-55270-086-0.jpg	View
1-896210-42-2	Productive Publications	Lean Production: How to Use the Highly Effective Japanese Concept of Kaizen to Improve Your Efficiency	Jim Thompson	1997; 146 Pages; Soft Cover	Lean Production: How to Use the Highly Effective Japanese Concept of Kaizen to Improve Your Efficiency will appeal to both a general self-help audience, as well as those in business and manufacturing. It provides specific techniques and behaviors to improve our effectiveness and reduce waste. The system described in this book has been used very effectively in manufacturing in Japan for over forty years, and will assist all managers and employees to improve their productivity. Contents: Introduction; Kaizen; Problems; Cost Reduction; Elimination of Waste; Just-in-Time; Two for One; Leveling; Quick Set-up; Quality Improvement; Quality; Error Proofing; Standardized Work; Tool-Time; Total Productive Maintenance; Creating the Environment; Workplace Organization; The People; The Suppliers; Support for the Operator; Organization of Machines; Visual Controls; 5S; The Winning Formula.	£15.00	1-896210-42-2.jpg	View
0-915299-07-0	Productivity Press	Zero Quality Control: Source Inspection and the Poka-Yoke System	Shigeo Shingo	1986; 328 Pages; Hard Cover	100% Zero Defects is possible! Learn how to develop the system to eliminate all defects. A combination of source-inspection and mistake-proofing devices is the only method to get you zero defects. SPC and QC activities aren't enough to get you there, Shigeo Shingo shows you how this proven system for reducing errors to zero turns out the highest quality products in the shortest period of time. (Also available in Spanish - call for details)	£59.00	0-915299-07-0.jpg	View
1-56327-086-2	Productivity Press	Corporate Diagnosis: Setting the Global Standard for Excellence	Thomas L. Jackson with Constance E. Dyer	1996; 115 Pages; Hard Cover	Diagnose your company's actual state at the beginning and end of an improvement cycle. Assess your organization's strategic health, and measure its overall competitiveness against world class standards. An excellent companion for implementation of Deming, Shingo or Baldrige Award criteria. Includes progress tables that describe development levels for each key area. (Included in the "Lean Management System Package" - PP 09PK)	£51.00	1-56327-086-2.jpg	View
1-56327-087-0	Productivity Press	Implementing TPM, The North American Experience	Charles J. Robinson and Andrew P. Ginder	1995; 215 Pages; Hard Cover	Learn from these author's experiences tailoring TPM to the distinctive needs of North American plants, and how TPM fits into an overall manufacturing improvement strategy. A real-world view on what works and what doesn't, an excellent resource for strategic planning, and an educational tool for middle and upper management. Includes the seven levels of autonomous maintenance, a discussion of unisons and TPM, and a typical TPM master plan.	£35.00	1-56327-087-0.jpg	View
1-56327-090-0	Productivity Press	Visual Feedback Photography		1996	Making Your 5S Implementation Click. Adapted from materials by Ken'ichi Ono. Here's a way to breathe life into your 5S activities and vividly demonstrate your progress. Now you can capture the evolution of your program in photographs. A picture is worth a thousand words. The Visual Feedback Photography Method helps your teams implement improvements, and record workplace changes over time. The result-a series of photographs displayed on a workplace chart - provides a clear record of improvement activities related to problem areas. This simple method is easy to communicate and ensures effective results. After a brief training period with the materials, you're ready to begin. To get you started right away, we're even including a pocket camera!	£113.00	1-56327-090-0.jpg	View
1-56327-123-0	Productivity Press	5S for Operators: 5 Pillars of the Visual Workplace	Created by the Productivity Development Team	1996; 136 Pages; Soft Cover	5S is the starting point of any on-the-floor improvement activity and the key to successful change. It's about how to create a workplace that is clearly organized, free of clutter, arranged so that you can find things, and sparkling clean. Teach your workers the basics of 5S: organization, orderliness, cleanliness, standard cleanup and discipline. Included in this book are many illustrations, page headers, chapter summaries and application questions. No reason why learning should not be fun! REVIEWS: "Especially effective in the clarity of presenting 5S. Previously, I didn't really understand the need for all aspects of 5S, nor did I have the most positive attitude towards it. This book made the need clear to me, in a way that connected." - Rick Pollett, Maintenance Engineer, The Boeing Co. "I recommend this book to every supervisor who wants a common sense, inexpensive method for improving quality, productivity, safety and morale within their department." - Jaymie Randel, Training Coordinator, Douglas & Lomason Co. "This book should be read and studied by all shopfloor managers, supervisors, leaders, and associates looking for a direction to success." - Steven Warywoda, Plant Manager, Douglas & Lomason Co. (Also available in Spanish and French)	£20.00	1-56327-123-0.jpg	View
1-56327-114-1	Productivity Press	Lean Management Wall Charts		1996; 8 Wall Charts; Shrink Wrap	Eight wall charts provide visual control and team focus for measurement and analysis during strategic planning and policy deployment. (Included in the "Lean Management System Package" (PP 09PK).	£39.00	1-56327-114-1.jpg	View
1-56327-046-3	Productivity Press	Software and the Agile Manufacturer: Computer Systems and World Class Manufacturing	Brian H. Maskell	1994; 424 Pages; 32 figures; index	Agile manufacturing is responsive, flexible manufacturing that can deliver better products, faster, at lower cost. This book is the first to show you how computerization can aid this transition. Computer systems and software designed for individual departments or functions can be adapted to create an integrated world class manufacturing environment. Case studies reveal common challenges and provide guidelines for companies just starting out. A non-technical, practical guide.	£39.00	1-56327-046-3.jpg	View
1-56327-112-5	Productivity Press	ISO 9000 Required: Your Worldwide Passport to Customer Confidence	Branimir Todorov	1996; 224 Pages; 28 figures; 20 tables; index	Obtain the worldwide quality seal of approval. ISO 9000 is a series of internationally recognized standards used to measure and evaluate an organization's quality system. Meeting them and receiving certification is quickly becoming the seal of quality required worldwide. This easy to read book will help your company develop and support a quality culture.	£21.00	1-56327-112-5.jpg	View
1-56327-106-0	Productivity Press	Thoughtware	J. Philip Kirby & David Hughes	296 Pages	Change the Thinking and the Organization Will Change Itself. In order to facilitate true change in an organization, its thinking patterns need to be the first thing to change. Your employees need more than empowerment. They need to move from just doing their jobs to doing whatever is needed for the good of the entire organization. Thoughtware is the underlying platform on which your organization operates, the set of assumptions upon which it is structured. When you understand and change Thoughtware, the tools and techniques of continuous improvement become incredibly powerful. Sustainable change only happens when both philosophy and techniques are combined in a well-grounded methodology. The new Thoughtware introduced here describes how to shift your organisation's understanding from the old paradigm based on division of labour, departmentalisation, span of control, and point of authority to the powerful new context of knowledge, measurement, time to action and allotment. New Thoughtware will allow knowledge workers to emerge, grow, and truly impact your organization. For senior executives, middle managers and frontline workers, this book provides new thought patterns for the knowledge era.	£27.00	1-56327-106-0.jpg	View
1-56327-125-7	Productivity Press	Quick Changeover for Operators	Created by the Productivity Development Team	1996; 80 Pages; Cartoons; Illustrations; Charts	Created by the Productivity Development Team. This book, based on Shingo's bestselling SMED System, helps you begin the education process that will support training on quick changeover. The learning format in the Shopfloor Series begins to make this powerful technique accessible to your entire workforce. (Also available in Spanish - call for details)	£20.00	1-56327-125-7.jpg	View
1-56327-124-9	Productivity Press	5S for Operators Learning Package	Created by the Productivity Development Team	1996; Leader's Guide; 5S for Operators; 5 Pillars	This Learning Package is designed to give your company everything you need to lead employee learning groups in understanding the concepts and tools in "5S for Operators." LEARNING PACKAGE SPECIAL FEATURES: Designed to give team leaders everything necessary to facilitate study groups * Encourages workers to become actively involved in their own learning * Prepares operators to participate in improvement efforts * Supports the training courses available from Productivity Consulting Group (PCG). THIS LEARNING PACKAGE INCLUDES: Leader's Guide; 5 copies of "5S for Operators" * 1 copy of the classic book "5 Pillars of the Visual Workplace" * PowerPoint (TM) slides and photos of real-world examples on CD. (Also available in Spanish) (UK orders add VAT)	£295.00	1-56327-124-9.jpg	View
1-56327-139-7	Productivity Press	Toyota Management System: Linking the Seven Key Functional Areas	Yasuhiro Monden	1997; 245 Pages; Soft Cover	The development of just-in-time production at Toyota and the company's achievement of unprecedented levels of production were made possible by its supportive, integrated management system. This book explores exactly how the system works and examines each of Toyota's seven management subsystems. You will learn about the unified system of business management and the pursuit of "effectiveness." The book details how a manager must integrate financial data with the abilities of workers. As well, Toyota's financial management system is explored. The author discusses how a company must balance capital procurement and capital application. Also discussed are: Target costing; Kaizen costing; Decentralized management structures; Sales management in a JIT System (SIS); Use of kanban at Toyota; International production strategy.	£23.00	1-56327-139-7.jpg	View
1-56327-175-3	Productivity Press	Do It Right the Second Time: Benchmarking Best Practices in the Quality Change Process	Peter Merrill	1997; 225 Pages; figures; index.	Is your organization looking back on its quality process and saying "it failed"? Are you concerned that TQM is just another fad, only to be replaced by the next improvement movement? Don't jump ship just yet. Everyone experiences some failure in their quality improvement process. Successful organizations are different because they learn from their failures: they do it right the second time. In this plain-speaking, easy-to-read book, Peter Merrill helps you take what you learned from your first attempts at implementing a quality program, rethink the plan, and move forward. Do It Right the Second Time starts where other books leave off and asks "OK, what have you learned? Now, let's try it this way." The author takes you sequentially through the activities required to lead a lasting change from vision to final realization. More importantly, he stresses the balance between process improvement and people improvement.Each brief chapter covers a specific topic in a framework which leads you directly to the issues that concern your organization. Includes checklists, tables, questionnaires, and other helpful tools to support your quuality implementation. Examples show you what went wrong with other organizations, and the successful course corrections they made.	£21.00	1-56327-175-3.jpg	View
1-56327-173-7	Productivity Press	Becoming Lean: Inside Stories of U.S. Manufacturers	Jeffrey K. Liker	1997; 517 Pages; Hard Cover	Most other books on lean management focus on the technical methods and offer a picture of what a lean system should look like. Some provide snapshots of before and after. this is the first book to provide technical descriptions of successful solutions and performance improvements. It is the first book to include powerful first-hand accounts of the complete process of change, its impact on the entire organization, and the rewards and benefits of becoming lean. At the heart of Becoming Lean you will find the stories of North American manufacturers who have successfully implemented lean methods. Authors offer personalized accounts of their organization's lean transformation, including struggles and successes, frustrations and surprises. Now you have a unique opportunity to go inside their implementation process to see what worked, what didn't, and why. Many of these executives and managers who led the charge to lean in their organizations tell their stories here for the first time!	£27.00	1-56327-173-7.jpg	View
1-56327-171-0	Productivity Press	Putting Performance Measurement to Work: An Action Learning Software Kit	Brian H. Maskell	1997; CD-ROM; Workbook and Reference Guide; "Perfo	For optimal results in your improvement efforts, the introduction of new performance measures needs to go hand in hand with the introduction of the new manufacturing techniques. You choose what area of improvement to focus on, determine the improvement, determine the measures, and put them in place. Then you move to the next area to be improved and you do the same thing. Easy? Yeah, right! This software application makes it easy. It will teach you, coach you, help you determine then achieve your goals, and lead you to success. If you are involved in manufacturing improvement, do training in this area, or want to get a glance at what it will take to bring your operations to world class level, this program will get you there. You'll answer the question prompts and the application will help you determine your measures, and lead you step-by-step where you want to go. Unique Advantages: You are in control. You work at your own pace. You can start at any point in your improvement process. You feel a strong sense of accomplishment because you are learning and doing at the same time. You will have an accurate history of changes and improvements, and a way to evaluate and document your progress. You will be ready at any time to share progress information, have all the data you need to move easily to stronger measures, or to adapt them quickly in response to changes in business environment. This Action Learning Software Kit will help you: Assess your organization's readiness for change * Support your organization through the change to a new performance measurement system * Manage all aspects of your performance measurement project * Create a schedule for your project using the Gantt chart capability * Develop a strategic plan for your organization, including strategic measurements * Create operational measurements in every unit of your organization * Design charts for your measurements with 35 Microsoft Excel templates * Evaluate your project implementation. Here's What You'll Get: The software module contains worksheets and templates drawn from Brian Maskell's years of consulting and training for world class manufacturers. Yet this extraordinary software is just one part of this package. The change management workbook and reference guide that accompany the software are loaded with worksheets, tables, lists and instructions to help you prepare for and roll out the new performance measures. We've also given you a reference copy of Maskell's "Performance Measurement for World Class Manufacturing", the source material for the software, and five copies of "New Performance Measures", a condensed version of the larger source text. Finally, we give you a color road map to the kit to facilitate your learning. (UK orders add VAT)	£746.00	1-56327-171-0.jpg	View
1-56327-164-8	Productivity Press	TPM for Every Operator Learning Package	Created by the productivity Development Team	1997; Leader's Guide; 5 x "TPM of Every Operator";	This package covers the main aspects of TPM and begins the education process that will introduce frontline workers to this important manufacturing strategy. The enhanced Leaders Guide includes full discussion guide notes as well as tips for addressing the issues which TPM often raises for operators. An excellent tool for supporting your TPM training initiatives. Learning Package and study guide handout. This Learning Package Includes: * Leader's Guide * 1 copy of the book "TPM for Workshop Leaders" * 5 copies of the "TPM for Every Operator" * PowerPoint slides and photos of real-world examples on CD.	£295.00	1-56327-164-8.jpg	View
1-56327-161-3	Productivity Press	TPM for Supervisors	Created by the Productivity Development Team	1996, 96 Pages	Rally the expertise of your operators to solve equipment problems. Created by the Productivity Development Team. A brief but complete introduction to TPM offering an easy-to-follow overview of the basic TPM features and implementation. It will give you front line supervisors a quick, practical and to the point understanding of the benefits of TPM and their role in making it successful. Note: Previously titled "TPM for Operators."	£20.00	1-56327-161-3.jpg	View
1-56327-158-3	Productivity Press	Caught in the Middle		1992; 258 Pages; 6 figures; questionnaires; index.	A Leadership Guide for Partnership in the Workplace. Has someone (your boss perhaps) told you recently that you need to "get the employees involved"? Have you been newly promoted to a supervisory position overseeing those who used to be your peers? Do you feel caught in the middle? This book acknowledges the discomfort you may feel and helps you begin the journey to empowered participation in your workplace. A lively, easy to read book, with many anecdotes, quotations and case examples. Learn how to initiate participation, maximise its effects, and keep involvement high on a daily basis. One chapter, "Travelling the Road to Hell" describes major barriers that can block the shift to participate management. The book helps you chart a plan and put it in action.	£23.00	1-56327-158-3.jpg	View
1-56327-133-8	Productivity Press	Just-in-Time for Operators	Created by the Productivity Development Team	1998; 70 Pages; Soft Cover	This book includes ample illustrations and examples to explain basic JIT concepts and some of the changes people may encounter in JIT implementation. Key definitions * Elimination of process waste * Leveled production, kanban, and standard work * U-shaped cells and autonomation * JIT support techniques.	£20.00	1-56327-133-8.jpg	View
1-56327-140-0	Productivity Press	Cedac: A Tool for Continuous Systematic Improvement	Ryuiji Fukuda	1996; 144 Pages; Soft Cover	One of the most powerful, participative problem-solving methods you'll ever find! Improve any process with CEDAC, a Cause-and-Effect-Diagram-with-Additional-Cards system which involves everyone in looking at an existing situation, coming up with facts and improvements, and constantly refining the data and solutions found. Systematized improvement at your fingertips. (Also available in Spanish)	£23.00	1-56327-140-0.jpg	View
1-56327-126-5	Productivity Press	Quick Changeover for Operators Learning Package	Created by the Productivity Development Team	1996; Leaders Guide; "A Revolution in Manufacturin	Created by the Productivity Development Team. Changeover is the process of setting up a production line for a different process or product. Many plants take hours or even days to do a changeover - a major barrier to manufacturing flexibility. This learning package, based on Shigeo Shingo's SMED System, begins the education process to teach frontline employees the techniques and approaches that turn hours of changeover time into minutes or even seconds! Now the learning format in the Shopfloor Series makes these powerful techniques accessible to your entire workforce. This learning package includes: Leaders Guide * 1 copy of the book "A Revolution in Manufacturing: The SMED System" * 5 copies of "Quick Changeover for Operators" * PowerPointTM slides and photos of real-world examples on CD-ROM. (UK orders add VAT) (Also available in Spanish - call for details)	£295.00	1-56327-126-5.jpg	View
1-56327-138-9	Productivity Press	Handbook of Quality Tools: The Japanese Approach	Edited by Tetsuichi Asaka and Kazuo Ozeki	1996; 315 Pages; Soft Cover	Enhance your training on quality. A comprehensive training aid as well as a hands-on reference book for foremen, supervisors and team leaders. Learn how to develop, adapt and use quality control diagrams, charts and histograms. Part one focuses on management issues, roles, challenges, implementing improvements, process control and leadership. Part two is an in-depth discussion of each tool and its applications.	£28.00	1-56327-138-9.jpg	View
1-56327-083-8	Productivity Press	Secrets of a Successful Employee Recognition System	Daniel C. Boyle	1995; 152 Pages; illustrated	For an annual cost of about $20 per employee, your return can be as high as 250 times the investment. How would you feel if you started to gets gifts from your company just for doing your job? It would probably make you feel pretty good about yourself and your work. That's the idea behind the 100 club, an innovative recognition system combined with a suggestion system that dramatically improves productivity by supporting expected worker performance. The short-term result is improved morale among employees; the long-term benefit is better company performance in every dimension.	£20.00	1-56327-083-8.jpg	View
1-56327-134-6	Productivity Press	Just-In-Time for Operators Learning Package		1998; Learning Package incl books and CD-ROM	Are you ready to implement Just-In-Time, but unsure how to teach your operators about the power of JIT? To assist you in this effort, we've developed the "Just-In-Time for Operators Learning Package" which introduces equipment operators, assembly workers, and other frontline employees to basic JIT concepts and techniques. Think of it as an orientation to prepare your employees for JIT before you launch actual implementation. Giving operators the necessary education enables them to participate and share their experience and ideas more effectively. This Learning Package Includes: Leaders Guide * 5 copies of "Just-In-Time for Operators" * 1 copy of the classic book "Kanban Just-in-Time at Toyota" * PowerpointTM slides and photos of real-world examples on CD. (UK orders add VAT)	£295.00	1-56327-134-6.jpg	View
0-915299-03-08	Productivity Press	Revolution in Manufacturing, A: The SMED System	Shigeo Shingo	1985, 383 Pages, 274 figures	A Revolution in Manufacturing: The SMED System. SMED is short for "Single Minute Exchange of Die" The "single" here means a single digit number of minutes-less than ten! The SMED approach is simple and universal. It works in companies all over the world. Although it was first used in manufacturing, the basic principles of SMED have been used to reduce set-up and turnaround time also in all types of assembly and service industries, from process and packaging plants to airlines. SMED or quick changeover technique is the single most powerful tool for JIT production. Written by the industrial engineer who developed SMED for Toyota, this book provides complete and detailed instructions for transforming a manufacturing environment to speed up production and make small lot inventories feasible. Includes 12 chapter length case studies. (Also available in Spanish - call for details)	£59.00	0-915299-03-08.jpg	View
1-56327-129-X	Productivity Press	Stepping Up to ISO 14000	Subhash C. Puri	1996, 280 Pages, 15 figures, 21 tables, bibliograp	Integrating Environmental Quality with ISO 9000 and TQM. Integrate ISO 14000 with your ISO 9000 and TQM programs. Obtain a clear and articulate overview of the standards. Add competitive advantage to your company's strategy. The newest ISO standards, announced in mid-1996, require environmentally-friendly practices in every aspect of a manufacturing business, from factory design and raw material acquisition to the production, packaging, distribution, and ultimate disposal of the product. Here's a comprehensive overview and implementation guide to the standards that's also the only one to show you how they fit with current ISO 9000 efforts and other companywide QM programs.	£30.00	1-56327-129-X.jpg	View
1-56327-128-1	Productivity Press	Mistake-Proofing for Operators Learning Package	Created by the Productivity Development Team	1997; Leaders Guide; "ZQC: Source Inspection and t	The Zero Quality Control system (ZQC) is a mistake-proofing approach that prevents defects by monitoring process conditions as the source and correcting errors that would cause defects. In this breakthrough approach, mistake-proofing devices called poka-yoke are used to check and give feedback about each product operation in the process, not just a sample. This product helps start the education process by establishing the foundation to reach this goal: placing proven improvement tools such as ZQC and mistake-proofing in the hands of your company's entire workforce. This learning package includes: Leaders Guide * 1 copy of the book" ZQC: Source Inspection and the Poke-Yoke Systems" * 5 copies of "Mistake-Proofing for Operators" * PowerpointTM slides and photos of real-world examples on CD. (UK orders add VAT)	£295.00	1-56327-128-1.jpg	View
1-56327-127-3	Productivity Press	Mistake-Proofing for Operators	Created by the Productivity Development Team	1997; 80 Pages	ZQC is based on the principle that defects are prevented by controlling the performance of a process so that it can not produce defects, even when a mistake is made by the operator. Instead of pointing fingers at people, ZQC finds ways to keep errors from turning into defects. This book introduces front line workers to the basic methodology of ZQC in a succinct, easy to read format that covers all aspects of this important manufacturing improvement strategy.	£20.00	1-56327-127-3.jpg	View
1-56327-144-3	Productivity Press	Building Organizational Fitness: Management Methodology for Transformation and Strategic Advantage	Ryuji Fukuda	250 Pages; figures; index.	The most urgent task for companies today is to take a hard look at the future. To remain competitive, management must nurture a strong capability for self-development and strong corporate culture, both of which form part of the foundation for improvement. But simply understanding management techniques doesn't mean you know how to use them. You need the tools and technologies for implementation. In Building Organizational Fitness, Dr. Ryuji Fukuda extends the power of his managerial engineering methodology into the context of the top management strategic planning role. Published here for the first time in English, the author provides information on the evolution of his CEDAC methods for use in strategic planning and implementation. The book introduces several key management technologies and describes their successful application in many Japanese, American, and European companies, including: P/O (Policy/Objective) Matrix, SEDAC (Structure for Enhancing Daily Activities through Creativity), Windows Analysis (a method for classifying and analyzing problems and required management actions), and Stockless Production (an approach to reduce work-in-progerss and lead time in an effective and manageable way).	£39.00	1-56327-144-3.jpg	View
0-915299-92-5	Productivity Press	TPM for Workshop Leaders	Kunio Shirose	1992, 164 Pages, Hard Cover	Master the hands-on leadership issues of TPM implementation. Support your equipment operators in the care of their equipment. A top TPM consultant describes the problems TPM group leaders are likely to experience and the improvements in quality and vast cost savings you can expect to achieve. This shopfloor overview of TPM includes cartoons, case studies, practical examples and graphics to convey the hands-on leadership issues of TPM implementation. (Also available in Spanish - call for details)	£31.00	0-915299-92-5.jpg	View
0-915299-31-3	Productivity Press	Poka-Yoke: Improving Product Quality by Preventing Defects	Nikkan Kogya Shimbun, Ltd. and Factory Magazine (e	1989; 295 Pages; Hard Cover	Achieve 100% Zero Defects. How? Involve your line workers in developing mistake-proofing devices. Improving Product Quality by Preventing Defects. If your goal is 100% zero defects, here is the book for you - a completely illustrated guide to poka-yoke (mistake proofing) for supervisors and shopfloor workers. Poka-yoke ideas result in better product quality - and greater participation by workers in efforts to improve processes, products, and the company as a whole. Contents: Overview * Processing errors * Assembly errors * Mounting errors * Inclusion of wrong items * Insertion errors * Assembly omissions * Processing Omissions * Measurement errors * Dimensional errors * Omissions of operations * Operations errors * Pasting/labeling errors * Inspection errors * Wiring/contact errors * Painting errors * Printing errors * Misalignment * Set-up errors * Packing/wrapping errors * Mismatched jigs and dies * Rinsing errors * Miscellaneous problems. (Also available in Spanish - call for details)	£51.00	0-915299-31-3.jpg	View
0-915299-64-X	Productivity Press	Modern Approaches to Manufacturing Improvement	Alan Robinson (ed.)	1990; 420 Pages; 120 figures and tables; index	Manufacturing improvement all-in-one. An overview of the most powerful methods. The Shingo System. The quickest way to learn about the pioneering work of Shigeo Shingo, the father of modern manufacturing and co-creator of just-in-time. Here you'll find excerpts of five of his books as well as an excellent introduction by Professor Robinson. Learn about quick changeover, mistake proofing, non-stock production, and how to apply Dr. Shingo's famous "scientific thinking mechanism."	£18.00	0-915299-64-X.jpg	View
1-56327-049-8	Productivity Press	Fast Focus on TQM	Derm Barrett	1994; 205 Pages; 40 figures; bibliography.	Fast Focus on TQM: A Concise Guide to Company wide Learning. Filled with anecdotes, detailed information, even history and philosophy. This book explains TQM terminology and helps you integrate the many issues involved. You will be amazed at its depth of content and its ability to motivate.	£16.00	1-56327-049-8.jpg	View
1-56327-047-1	Productivity Press	5 Pillars of the Visual Workplace: The Sourcebook for 5S Implementation	Hiroyuki Hirano	1995; 377 Pages; Soft Cover	In this important sourcebook, the most vital information available on the visual workplace is provided. Hirano describes the 5S’s: In Japanese they are seiri, seiton, seiso, seiketsu and shitsuke (which translate as organization, orderliness, cleanliness, standardized leanup and discipline). Hirano discusses how the 5S theory fosters efficiency, maintenance and continuous improvement in all areas of the company, from the plant floor to the sales office. Includes 218 figures, case studies, graphic illustrations, tables, photos and an index. (Also available in Spanish)	£66.00	1-56327-047-1.jpg	View
0-915299-66-6	Productivity Press	JIT Implementation Manual: The Complete Guide to Just-in-Time Manufacturing	Hiroyuki Hirano	1990; 1,000 Pages; 2 Slipcase Volumes	Hirano called the "JIT Implementation Manual" the "bible for corporate survival" for manufacturing companies fighting to improve factories and overcome obstacles to success. Truly encyclopaedic in its coverage, the "JIT Implementation Manual's" clear structure highlights JIT concepts, techniques, and the tools for putting JIT into practice. This resource will literally guide you step-by-step through every phase of JIT implementation. With over 1,000 pages, hundreds of illustrations, and samples of every critical JIT form, this book is truly the most detailed and extensive compilation of JIT procedures ever documented. If your company is committed to the JIT philosophy, the return on this investment will be beyond your expectations. Included are 317 figures, 161 tables and 46 photos. The "JIT Implementation Manual": Shows how to plan, enact, and standardise each of the main types of JIT improvements. * Helps you construct a market-oriented production system * Illustrates JIT techniques with case studies * Describes innovative engineering techniques to scientifically identify and eliminate waste * Gives JIT trainers helpful scenarios on how to respond to resistance from workers * Includes prototype vouchers, lists and forms that can be photocopied. (Also available in Spanish)	£575.00	0-915299-66-6.jpg	View
1-56327-188-5	Productivity Press	Kaizen Teian 2: Guiding Continuous Improvement Through Employee Suggestions	Japanese Human Relations Association (ed.)	1992; 221 Pages; 63 figures; index	Building on the concepts covered in Kaizen Teian 1, this second volume examines in depth how to implement Kaizen Teian - a continuous improvement suggestion system. In Kaizen Teian 2, managers learn techniques for getting employees to think creatively about workplace improvements and discover how to run a successful proposal program. Contents: * Part 1: Basic Concepts of Kaizen * Part 2: Principles of Kaizen * Part 3: Providing Guidance for Kaizen Teian Activities - Principles and Rules * Part 4: Kaizen Teian Examples.	£23.00	1-56327-188-5.jpg	View
0-915299-67-4	Productivity Press	Visual Factory, The: Building Participation Through Shared Information	Michel Greif	1991; 305 Pages; Hard Cover	SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING ON YOUR KEY PROCESSES - AT A GLANCE, ALL THE TIME! Visual management can make your factory a place where people communicate freely and take improvement action. Learn how to: Communicate work standards and instructions and make your goals and progress visible. Use visual production controls such as kanban. Provides a long lasting source of information for plant, operations and human resource managers. Includes more than 200 diagrams, photos and index. "Competitive factories of tomorrow must rely on the knowledge and experiences of everyone, including production workers. The Visual Factory does an excellent job of introducing the concepts of visual factories as well as providing a guideline for implementing them. The industry examples were especially helpful" - Dan blount, Engineering Manager, Hewlett Packard, Exeter Computer Manufacturing Operation. (Also available in Spanish)	£43.00	0-915299-67-4.jpg	View
1-56327-044-7	Productivity Press	TPM for America: What It Is and Why You Need It	Herbert R. Steinbacher and Norma L. Steinbacher	1993, 169 Pages	This is the book that will convince your managers of the powerful benefits of TPM. An American TPM practitioner and educator give you a succinct account of the evolution of TPM and how it came to be the most effective maintenance approach in the history of manufacturing. Chapters include: Who's minding the store: Wake up America! Our current status: Getting Clobbered. Case Studies: TPM in Action. Consequences: So what if we don't do it!	£20.00	1-56327-044-7.jpg	View
1-56327-050-1	Productivity Press	Software Excellence: A Total Quality Management Guide - Shigeichi Moriguchi		1997, 640 Pages, 330 figures and tables	The most significant problem software developers face is eliminating bugs in new programs. This book addresses head on the assumption that software cannot be built without bugs. The application of the total quality principles and tools to software development is meant to eliminate the lengthy and costly step of debugging that has become an accepted phase of software development. Thanks to the great success of the QC movement, quality assurance has taken root in the earliest stages of hardware development. Software Excellence is the first book to thoroughly apply the arsenal of Japanese-style quality control methods to software development. From QFD to the seven new tools of quality control, this book is dedicated to taking you on a process journey in search of bug-free software.	£70.00	1-56327-050-1.jpg	View
0-915299-70-4	Productivity Press	Eliminating Minor Stoppages on Automated Lines	Kikuo Suehiro	1992; 243 Pages; Hard Cover	Learn a systematic approach that isolates the slight defects in equipment that can cause stoppages. Focus on error-related stops, especially parts handling errors in automated machines and automated lines. Uses MTBF as measurement criteria for evaluating minor stoppages. Improvements based on case studies where the MTFB for minor stoppages was increased by a factor of 20 (the stoppage frequency rate was reduced to 1/20 of its former level). (Also available in Spanish - call for details)	£39.00	0-915299-70-4.jpg	View
0-915299-51-8	Productivity Press	Continuous Improvement in Operations: A Systematic Approach to Waste Reduction	Alan Robinson (Editor)	1991; 406 Pages; 94 Figures; Index	Access the world's most advanced thinking on JIT, kaizen, TEI and TPM! This is an excellent and comprehensive book. Here in one volume is a compendium of materials from our bestselling classics by world-famous manufacturing experts. A lengthy introduction integrates the developments of these manufacturing gurus within a two-fold theme - the elimination of invisible waste and the creation of a work environment that welcomes and institutes employee ideas.	£27.00	0-915299-51-8.jpg	View
0-915299-99-2	Productivity Press	Performance Measurement for World Class Manufacturing: A Model for American Companies	Brian H. Maskell	1991; 429 Pages; 81 figures; index	Learn the best methods of performance measurement in the world and how they are used. Written for manufacturing managers as well as accountants, this book explains the theoretical foundation of these methods. Contents: World class manufacturing and the need for new performance measures. Shortcomings of traditional management accounting. Establishing performance targets. Measurement of: delivery performance, customer service, process time, production flexibility, quality performance, financial performance, social issues.	£43.00	0-915299-99-2.jpg	View
1-56327-036-6	Productivity Press	TPM in Process Industries	Tokutaro Suzuki (ed.)	1994; 400 Pages, 238 figures, index	Our most comprehensive book on TPM. What's the big deal? TPM - no three letters have ever had a more remarkable impact on profitability and equipment management. We're talking about a system so effective it can reduce equipment breakdowns to almost zero and increase worker productivity to 150%. TPM is a plantwide, equipment-focused, team-based activity aimed at dramatically improving quality, manufacturing cost, and delivery time; involving everyone directly in equipment management issues. In this book, nine authors give you all the details you need to implement TPM, as well as specific applications and examples from chemical, food, textile and other process industries. This book takes you beyond the theory to actually help you plan and prepare the environment and select the right equipment. Any manager facing low operator/machine ratio, managing large equipment, or conducting extensive improvement activities will want to read this book. Selected Contents: Origin and Development of TPM. Overall Plant Effectiveness. What is Focused Improvement? Developing an Autonomous Maintenance Program. Equipment Management in Process Industries. Quality Maintenance. Education and Training in TPM. TPM in Administrative Support Departments. TPM and Safety and Environment Management. Zero accidents and Zero Pollution. TPM Small Group Activities. Measuring TPM Effectiveness. The PM Prize. (Also available in Spanish - call for details)	£66.00	1-56327-036-6.jpg	View
1-56327-035-8	Productivity Press	P-M Analysis: An Advanced Step in TPM Implementation	Kunio Shirose, Yoshifumi Kimura and Mitsugu Kaneda	1995; 198 Pages; Hard Cover	Eliminate chronic defects and failures. An Advanced Step in TPM Implementation. Your chronic losses are those equipment problems that have been neglected or unresolved in the past. This book first helps you isolate and understand the root causes of defects and failures in your equipment, then provides you with a system for effectively controlling these root causes. Discover a unique skill building process that improves technological know-how while delivering solutions to persistent problems. An unparalleled resource with practice exercises, graded examples, and many detailed case studies. (Also available in Spanish - call for details)	£51.00	1-56327-035-8.jpg	View
1-56327-015-3	Productivity Press	Cycle Time Management	Patrick Northey and Nigel Southway	1993; 200 Pages; Hard Cover	As much as 90% of the operational activities in a traditional plant are often nonessential or pure waste. "Cycle Time Management" gives you an exact methodology for eliminating most, if not all, of this waste within 24 to 30 months. Through a 12-step process, this implementation guide helps an organization unify and change together over time. Case studies of actual implementations are cited in the book. The authors also discuss the hazards of cycle time management and how to avoid them. Written in clear, concise language, "Cycle Time Management" is a roadmap for reducing waste in your company. Don't be the last company to implement a time-based strategy. Also included: Eliminating waste before Cycle Time Management is introduced; Relating Cycle Time Management to accounting practices; Examining plant layout, maintenance, order entry, and engineering; Impact of cycle time reduction on profits; An employee's role in cycle time implementation. (Also available in Spanish - call for details)	£23.00	1-56327-015-3.jpg	View
1-56327-008-0	Productivity Press	Design Team Revolution: How to Cut Lead Times in Half and Double Your Productivity	Kenichi Sekine and Keisuke Arai	1994; 321 Pages; 140 Figures; 80 Table; Index	Utilizing advanced production improvement tools such as U-shaped cells, one-piece flow and waste elimination, the authors show for the first time how these tools can be used in the design function. Each area of the design process is explored in detail, from drawing retrieval problems and designer training to decreasing the number of the people needed in a project.	£35.00	1-56327-008-0.jpg	View
1-56327-007-2	Productivity Press	Handbook for Productivity Measurement and Improvement	William F. Christopher and Carl G. Thor (eds.)	1993; 1344 Pages; 362 figures; index.	No other reference answers more of your questions on quality and productivity. Seventy of the world's leading experts talk about quality and productivity. Learn the evolving theories and specific practices of world class organizations. Insightful and fascinating articles by Peter Drucker, William Christopher, Jay Forrester, Carl Thor, Yasuhiro Monden among others. Contents: Productivity - where we stand: the road ahead; Basic Concepts, Productivity Measures and Improvement in: manufacturing, service industries, staff departments, profit centers, government and non-profit institutions, Structuring feedback for control and improvement; Sustainability and the new economics; Total employee involvement; Gain sharing.	£70.00	1-56327-007-2.jpg	View
1-56327-005-6	Productivity Press	TQM for Technical Groups	Kiyoshi Uchimaru, Susumu Okamoto and Bunteru Kurah	1993; 283 Pages; 114 Figures; 13 Tables; Index	Total Quality Principles for Product Development. If a child were to abandon attempts at walking because of one fall, Nike would be making knee and hand pads today, because we would all still be crawling. Learning and the achievement of goals occur from assessing what has happened and adjusting to try again. So TQM and Continuous Improvement cycles come into play. Learn techniques for motivating your technical staff, and see specific examples of the applications.	£31.00	1-56327-005-6.jpg	View
4-906224-34-2	Productivity Press	Statistical Methods for Quality Improvement	Hitoshi Kume (Editor)	1987; 231 Pages; Soft Cover	This classic text and training manual focuses on real-world applications of statistical tools for improving quality. Highly recommended by Dr. Ishikawa (author of "Guide to Quality Control"). The book covers the basic statistical quality tools, including data collection, Pareto analysis, cause-and-effect analysis, histograms, scatter diagrams, control charts, and variance.	£23.00	4-906224-34-2.jpg	View
1-56327-041-2	Productivity Press	Product Design Review: A Methodology for Error-Free Product Development	Takashi Ichida	1996; 282 Pages; 121 figures; 5 tables; index	* Eliminate errors throughout your production process. * Ensure product quality at concept. * Reconcile discrepancies through a unified flow of communication. This book describes a highly effective method for quality control in product design and its applications in a wide variety of business settings including building construction, electronic machinery, telecommunications, artificial intelligence, and software packages.	£51.00	1-56327-041-2.jpg<