Lean Production Simplified - A Plain-Language Guide to the World's Most Powerful Production System

Following in the tradition of its Shingo Prize-winning predecessors, Lean Production Simplified, Third Edition gives a clear overview of the structure and tools of the Lean production system. Written for the practitioner by a practitioner, it delivers a comprehensive insider''s view of Lean management. The author helps readers grasp the system as a whole, as well as the factors that animate it by organizing the book around an image of a house of Lean production. This edition deepens and extends the second edition with case studies on Lean outside the factory—in settings such as health care, IT, finance, design, engineering, and beyond.