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Visual Tools: Collected Practices and Cases
Productivity Press (December 2, 2005)


Creating Level Pull
Art Smalley. LEI. Lean Enterprises Institute (April 1, 2004)


Just-in-Time. Making It Happen
William Sandras Wiley; New Ed edition (March, 1995)


Learning to See
Mike Rother and John Shook Lean Enterprise Institute; Spiral edition (June 30, 2003)


Today and Tomorrow
Henry Ford. Productivity Press Inc; Reprint edition (June 1, 1988)


Japanese Manufacturing Techniques
Richard J. Schonberger Free Press (November 1, 1982)


World Class Manufacturing: The Next Decade
Richard J. Schonberger Free Press (April 3, 1996)


Creating Continuous Flow
Mike Rother and Rick Harris.  Lean Enterprise Institute; Spiral edition (November 1, 2001).


Creating Mixed Model Value Streams
Kevin J. Duggan.  Practical lean techniques for building to demand.  Productivity Press Inc; Bk&CD-Rom edition (November 1, 2002).


Implementing World Class Manufacturing - Shop Floor Manual.
Larry Rubrich, Madelyn Watson, Shirley Rubrich.  WCM Associates; 2nd Sprl edition (April, 2004)


Value Stream Management.
  Don Tapping, Tom Luyster and Tom Shuker.  Productivity Press Inc; Bk&CD-Rom edition (June 1, 2002).


Integrating Kanban With MRPii: Automating a Pull System for Enhanced JIT Inventory Management 
Raymond S. Louis. Productivity Press Inc (September 1, 1997)


Kanban for the Shop Floor: The Productivity Press Development Team (Shopfloor Series).  Productivity Press Inc (March 1, 2002)


Kanban Made Simple: Demystifying and Applying Toyota's Legendary Manufacturing Process.
John M. Gross and Kenneth R. McInnis.  American Management Association; Bk&CD-Rom edition (May 1, 2003


Kanban: Just-In-Time at Toyota: Management Begins at the Workplace 
Japan Management Association. (May 1, 1989)


Lean Lexicon.
  Chet Marchwinski and John Shook.  Lean Enterprises Inst Inc (February, 2003).  Buy online


Lean Manufacturing Implementation: A Complete Execution Manual for Any Size
Manufacturer.  Dennis P. Hobbs.  J. Ross Publishing, Inc. (September 1, 2003)   Buy online


Lean Manufacturing Workbooks: Implementing World Class Manufacturing and Putting 5S to Work.
  Larry Rubrich, et al.  WCM Associates (January 1, 1998)  Buy online


Lean Production Simplified: A Plain-Language Guide to the World's Most Powerful Production System.
Pascal Dennis, John Shook. Productivity Press Inc (August 1, 2002)


Lean Six Sigma: Combining Six Sigma Quality with Lean Production Speed.  Michael L. George  McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (April 25, 2002)  Buy online


Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation, Revised and Updated . 
James P. Womack and Dan Jones.  Free Press; 2nd Rev&Up edition (June 10, 2003)  Buy online


Lean Transformation: How to Change Your Business into a Lean Enterprise.
Bruce A. Henderson, Jorge L. Larco, Stephen H. Martin.  Oaklea Publishing (May 1, 1999)  Buy online


See the Whole: Mapping the Extended Value Stream.
  Jim Womack, etal.  Lean Enterprise Institute; Spiral edition
(March 1, 2002)


Making Materials Flow. Rick Harris, Chris Harris and Earl Wilson.
Lean Enterprises Inst Inc; Spiral edition (September 1, 2003)


Non-Stock Production: The Shingo System for Continuous Improvement.  Shigeo Shingo.  Most Detailed Examination of the Fundamentals of JIT  
Productivity Press Inc (June 1, 1988)


Practical Lean Accounting: A Proven System for Measuring and Managing the Lean Enterprise. 
Brian H. Maskell, Bruce Baggaley. 
Productivity Press Inc; Bk-Rom edition
(December 1, 2003)


A Study of the Toyota Production System from an Industrial Engineering Viewpoint (Produce What Is Needed, When It's Needed).  Shigeo Shingo. 
Productivity Press Inc; Revised edition (August 1, 1989)


The Lean Manufacturing Employee Training Manual. 
Kenneth Dailey.  DW Publishing Co. (May, 2004)


The Lean Manufacturing Pocket Handbook.
Kenneth Dailey.  DW Publishing (October, 2003)


The Machine That Changed the World : The Story of Lean Production
James P. Womack. etal.  Perennial; Reprint edition (November, 1991)Buy online


The Lean Pocket Guide.
Donald M. Tapping.  MCS Media, Inc. (January 10, 2003)


The New Manufacturing Challenge. Techniques for Continuous Improvement.
Kiyoshi Suzaki.  Free Press (July 22, 1987) 


Toyota Production System. Beyond Large-Scale Production.  Taiichi Ohno.  The Toyota Production System from the Father of TPS.
Productivity Press Inc. (February 1, 1988) Buy online




Toyota Production System: An Integrated Approach to Just-In-Time.
Yasuhiro Monden.  Engineering & Management Press; 2nd edition (August 1, 1993)
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