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Womack, James P., author.

Lean thinking : banish waste and create wealth in your corporation / James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones.

First Free Press Edition.

Revised and updated.

New York, N.Y. : Free Press, 2003.

396 pages : illustrations, charts ; 25 cm

Offers insight into how to implement an efficiency system and cost-cutting strategies that are based on what customers really want, outlining a process of creating value, explaining how to identify and remove unnecessary steps, and making suggestions on how to reduce lead time.

Organizational effectiveness.

Industrial efficiency.

Value added.

Lean manufacturing.

Corporate culture.

Cost control.

Jones, Daniel T., author.

Banish waste and create wealth in your corporation

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-378) and index.

Preface: from lean production to lean enterprise -- Preface to the 2003 edition -- Lean principles -- Introduction: lean thinking versus muda -- Value -- The value stream -- Flow -- Pull -- Perfection -- From thinking to action: the lean leap -- The simple case -- A harder case -- The acid test -- Lean thinking versus German technik -- Mighty Toyota; tiny showa -- An action plan -- Lean enterprise -- A channel for the stream; a valley for the channel -- Dreaming about perfection -- Epilogue -- The steady advance of lean thinking -- Institutionalizing the revolution -- Afterword: the lean network -- Appendix: individuals and organizations who helped -- Glossary -- Notes -- Index.

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