Customer Review: In this book, the reader is taken back behind the proverbial " curtain", to be shown the essence of the thought processes used by one of the profound geniuses of lean thinking in the 20th century. This book will have the heaviest impact upon those who have a great difficulty grasping how to... more info
Customer Review: Whether you start with JIT/Lean or Quick Response Manufacturing, you need to learn some simple tools helping you with the process improvement after any process analyze. Many books about operations management will teach you the interaction of workstations and the parameters influencing the... more info
Customer Review: Shigeo Shingo was the mastermind behind the Toyota Production System, constantly experimenting and thinking on how to improve. The result was an approach that significantly reduced required inventories (and their associated costs and losses), improved quality, and reduced throughput time. "A... more info
Customer Review: I highly recommend this book and it is a must read for all manufacturing personnel in the USA. This book will make you re-think all aspects of fixture design and manufacturing processes. It provides many excellent verbal & illustrated examples of SMED concepts.
Customer Review: The author has really shown the way to achieve zero defect through best method of quality control. The idea implementation of source inspection, self checks and successive checks and their result is really impressive. Various method shown to eliminate various errors and defects during manufacturing... more info
Customer Review: Very little new info. Other books also keep repeating same thing.
TPS From an Industrial Eng' Viewpoint and SMED are the only two needed.
Everything else is repetition.
Customer Review: In his final book, Dr Shingo tries to pull his ideas together and clear some misconceptions. He works hard to drive certain points home. The material is good and worth reading, unfortunately, it seems to lack proper editing to organize the content well and eliminate repetition (a part of driving... more info
