Publications
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Publications
- A Leader’s Study Guide to the Gold Mine
- A Study of the Toyota Production System
- A3 Problem Solving for Healthcare
- Breaking Through to Flow
- Building a Lean Fulfillment Stream
- Creating Continuous Flow
- Creating Lean Dealers
- Creating Level Pull
- Creating Mixed Model Value Streams
- Follow the Learner
- Gemba Walks
- Getting the Right Things Done
- Kaizen Express
- Lean Administration I
- Lean Administration II
- Lean Healthcare
- Lean Hospitals
- Lean Lexicon 4th Edition
- Lean Maintenance System
- Lean Product and Process Development
- Lean Solutions
- Lean Thinking, Second Edition
- Learning to See
- Made-to-Order Lean
- Making Hospitals Work
- Making Materials Flow
- Managing to Learn
- On The Mend
- Seeing the Whole
- Seeing the Whole Value Stream
- The Birth of Lean
- The Lean Manager
- The Machine That Changed the World
- The Nun and the Bureaucrat
- The Toyota Product Development System
- The Toyota Production System
- The Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production
- Training Within Industry: The Foundation of Lean
- Understanding A3 Thinking
- Womack on Lean Management
The Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production
This short book about the underlying philosophy of TPS goes a long way toward clearing up confusion about the system and its techniques.
Ohno, Taiichi. The Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production. Portland, Oregon: Productivity Press, 1988.
When Ohno was retired from Toyota in 1978 and began work on The Toyota Production System, Toyota executives worried that he would reveal the secrets of Toyota’s specific techniques. In fact, Ohno wrote an amazing set of brief essays on the thought process and spirit behind the leap from mass production (where Ford wound up at the Rouge) to truly lean production that could accommodate wide variety in continuous flow.
In reading Ohno, you can’t actually learn anything about precisely what to do on Monday morning. Yet you can learn everything about the spirit of lean thinking and the “just do it” attitude that permitted Ohno to surmount insurmountable obstacles and to introduce lean thinking in a craft-mass environment after World War II in Japan.
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