Manufacturing and lean production
Making things at low cost and high quality by removing waste. The strongest literature on this list.
9 books · 1 people behind it
Start here
- The GoalEliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox, 1984
- The Machine That Changed the WorldJames P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, Daniel Roos, 1990
- The Toyota WayJeffrey K. Liker, 2004
- Toyota Production SystemTaiichi Ohno, 1988
The people behind it 1
Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.
Strategists 1
Books 9
W. Edwards Deming · 1982 · The fourteen points; quality as the cheapest way to produce.
T1 The Goal
Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox · 1984 · Constraint theory taught as a novel; throughput accounting made intuitive.
Taiichi Ohno · 1988 · By the system's architect; the primary source on JIT and autonomation.
James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, Daniel Roos · 1990 · The MIT study that named lean production and measured its advantage.
James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones · 1996 · Value, flow and pull generalised beyond the car industry.
Jeffrey K. Liker · 2004 · The fourteen principles, and the management system behind the tools.
T2 Kaizen
Masaaki Imai · 1986 · The book that introduced continuous improvement to Western managers.
Ken Iverson · 1997 · Nucor's chief executive on flat structure, incentive pay and minimills
T2 Toyota Kata
Mike Rother · 2009 · The improvement and coaching routines beneath the visible tools.