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5S
Hybrid Lean for Make-to-Order Shops
Icon Health and Fitness Embraces the 5S Strategy
Lean Tooling: The Right Tool at the Right Time
Making 5S Stick
Kaizen
Breakthrough Kaizen Events
The Essence of Jidoka
Ford’s Global 8Ds for Problem Solving
Graphical Aides and Tools for the Implementation of
Continuous Improvement
How a Kaizen Works
Kaizen Applications in Just-in-Time Manufacturing and
Time Measurements in Improving Manufacturing
Productivity
Kaizen for Small- and Medium-sized Companies
Life Cycle of a Problem: Understanding the Sequence
Maps, Magnetism and a Successful Kaizen
Value Stream Mapping
Connected Value Stream Taxonomy
Lean Manufacturing Begins with Current State Mapping
Lean Manufacturing: A Plant Floor Guide Book Summary
Lean Manufacturing for the Small Shop Book Summary
Product Matrix Analysis Tools for Custom Manufacturers
VSM: Mapping the Current State
VSM: Mapping the Future State
Just-in-Time
Colored Petri Net Modeling of Metal Distribution in a
Job Shop Iron Foundry: Improving Flow in a Pull
System with Perishable In-process Inventory
The Essence of Jidoka
Kaizen Applications in Just-in-Time Manufacturing and
Time Measurements in Improving Manufacturing
Productivity
An Efficient Pull System with Look-ahead Strategy:
Model, Simulation, and Case Study
Hybrid Lean for Make-to-Order Shops
Investigating the Applicability of Pull System in a
Manufacturing Cell Using Simulation
Just-in-Time Scheduling with Machining Economics for
Single Machine Turning Process
Lean Manufacturing for the Small Shop Book Summary
Speed JIT Manufacturing with Cells
Using Simulation to Implement Time Slicing
What’s Unique About the Kanban System?
Setup, Cycle, and
Lead Time Reduction
A Framework for Reducing Manufacturing
Throughput Time
Hybrid Lean for Make-to-Order Shops
A Managerial Classification of Cellular Manufactur-
ing Systems to Facilitate Cycle Time Reduction
Lean Tooling Reduces Setup Time and Costs
Lean Tooling: The Right Tool at the Right Time
Leverage the Cycle-time Capability of Your Rapid
Prototypes
Making Lean Die Change Possible
Medical Implants in One Setup
Office Lead Time Reduction Efforts: An Implemen-
tation Case Study
Pre-cutting Prep
Pushing the Productivity Envelope
Servo Feeders Speed Changeover
Sheet Metal Bending: Forming Part Families for
Generating Shared Press-brake Setups
Single Second Exchange of Workholding and
Workpiece (SSEWW)TM
Stamp Out Changeover Downtime
What Kind of Numbers Can a Company Expect
After Implementing Quick Response Manufacturing?
Standard Work
The New Standardization: Controlling Work in a
Lean Environment
Visual Documentation in Manufacturing
Total Productive Maintenance
Continuous Improvement for Roll Forming
Manufacturing System Modeling for Productivity
Improvement
Six Sigma Keys to Lean Maintenance Reliability in
30–60 Days
Understanding and Implementing Total Productive
Maintenance
Six Sigma/Quality
Accelerated Six Sigma
Benefiting from Six Sigma
Common Six Sigma Questions for Beginners
Computing Rolled Throughput Yield
Continuous Improvement for Roll Forming
Cost-effective and Information-efficient Robust
Design for Optimizing Processes and Accom-
plishing Six Sigma Objectives
Deploying Mechanical Tolerancing for Six Sigma
A Discussion of Quality Management Systems
Implementation—A European Context
Do You Use SPC Correctly?
Extreme LeanTM: How to Keep Manufacturing in
America
The Façade of Management and Statistics
Flying High with Six Sigma Quality
Jetting to Success
Lean Energy Analysis: Identifying, Discovering and
Tracking Energy Savings Potential
Lean Manufacturing for the Small Shop Book Summary
Linking Six Sigma and Theory of Constraints
Operational Excellence Through Six Sigma
Optimization Design of the X-Bar & S Charts for
Monitoring Process Capability
Process Capability Analysis for Production Toler-
ance Assignment
Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing
Six Sigma Keys to Lean Maintenance Reliability in
30–60 Days
Statistical Process Control: It’s a Tool, Not a Cult
Statistics, Agile Systems, and Cpk
Understanding k-Sigma Metrics
The Use of Process Metrics to Predict Quality
Performance
Using FMEA to Calculate the Cost of Poor Quality
Using Lean, Six Sigma, and SCOR to Improve
Competitiveness
Variation Reduction: Beyond Process Desensitization
A Well-managed Change—Six Sigma and Managed
ChangeTM

An Application of Performance Measurement in an Assembly
Job Shop Environment—A Case Study
Balance Shaft Machining Process Gets Lean
Breakthrough Kaizen Events
Cells Providing Recession Insurance
Cells Speed Pump Production
Cellular Manufacturing: A Case Study
Composite Trimming and Drilling Process Improvement
Continuous Improvement for Roll Forming
Cross-training Works at GM Stamping Plant
The Double-D Cell for Assembling Hardware in Upholstered
Furniture Production
The Dynamics of Lean Implementation and Transformation
An Efficient Pull System with Look-ahead Strategy: Model,
Simulation, and Case Study
Employee Ideas Helped Drive Ford’s Manufacturing Revolution
F-35: Flying Lean
Flexibility is an Ongoing Challenge
Flexibility Meets Production Challenges
Flying High with Six Sigma Quality
Ford’s Global 8Ds for Problem Solving
Freudenberg-NOK’s Lean Journey
Going Lean at Baxter
Hand-tool Manufacturer in Portugal Uses Lean to Compete
Icon Health and Fitness Embraces the 5S Strategy
Jetting to Success
Johnson Controls Increases Supply-chain Responsiveness
Lean at ArvinMeritor
Lean at NUMMI
Lean Fighter
Lean Implementation in High-tech Manufacturing: A Case Study
in WIP Reduction and Increased Throughput
Lean Manufacturing for the Contract Manufacturer
Lean Operations at Delphi
Lean Pays Off at Ariens
Lean Propels Turbine Engine Production
Lean Tooling Reduces Setup Time and Costs
Manufacturing Problems Due to Poor Understanding of Supply
Chain and Supplier Development—A Case Study
Manufacturing System Design Case Study: Multi-channel
Manufacturing at Electrical Box & Enclosures
Maps, Magnetism and a Successful Kaizen
Medical Implants in One Setup
Multi-tasking in the Lean Environment
Office Lead Time Reduction Efforts: An Implementation Case Study
Product Matrix Analysis Tools for Custom Manufacturers
Rev Up Outboard Production
Seeking the Lean Machine
Servo Feeders Speed Changeover
A Simulation Approach to Line Balancing in Discrete Mass
Production Flow System and an Application
Smart Saws Cut It in Lean Manufacturing
Thinking Lean
Using Simulation to Implement Time Slicing
When Missiles Get Lean
To Achieve Profitable Growth, First Get Lean
Application of Intelligent Systems to Improve Worker
Training in Manufacturing Environment
Backbone of the Lean Enterprise
Baseline Analysis Diagnoses Manufacturing
Beyond the Buzzwords
Beyond the Factory: Lean Leaders for Lean Times
Cross-training Works at GM Stamping Plant
Culture Shock! The Impact of Organizational Culture on
QRM Implementation
The Dynamics of Lean Implementation and Transformation
Employee Ideas Helped Drive Ford’s Manufacturing Revolution
Exploring Prerequisites of Lean Manufacturing
Extreme LeanTM: How to Keep Manufacturing in America
The Façade of Management and Statistics
Ford’s Global 8Ds for Problem Solving
Freudenberg-NOK’s Lean Journey
Get Lean to Boost Profits
Getting Lean “Right”—10 Points to Consider
Implementing Lean Manufacturing? First Do No Harm
Justifying Lean Thinking in a Traditional Accounting World
Lean Accounting for Lean Manufacturers
Lean and ERP: Can They Co-exist?
Lean Certification Standard Sought
Lean Energy Analysis: Identifying, Discovering and
Tracking Energy Savings Potential
Lean Initiatives and Lean Learning
Lean Manufacturing: A Plant Floor Guide Book Summary
Lean Manufacturing for the Small Shop Book Summary
Lean Manufacturing Glossary
Learn to be Lean
Life Cycle of a Problem: Understanding the Sequence
Make Lean Manufacturing Work for You
Making 5S Stick
Manufacturing Enterprise Leadership: Insight for Adapta-
tion and Survival in the 21st Century
Move Your Operations to China? Do Some Lean Math First.
Multi-tasking in the Lean Environment
The New Standardization: Controlling Work in a Lean
Environment
Seeking the Lean Machine
Small Ideas: The Engine of Lean Production
Staying Competitive with the Power of CAD/CAM in Lean
Manufacturing
The Sustaining Lean Test: Many Try but Few Succeed
Thinking Lean
Tips from Employees Sustain a Lean Journey
Using Lean, Six Sigma, and SCOR to Improve Competitiveness
Valuing Lean Manufacturing Initiatives
What Champions Really Need to Know
Why Think Lean in Lean Times?
Accurate Response Manufacturing
An Application of Performance Measurement in an Assembly
Job Shop Environment—A Case Study
Baseline Analysis Diagnoses Manufacturing
Cell Design for Lean Manufacturing
Cells Providing Recession Insurance
Cells Speed Pump Production
Cellular Manufacturing: A Case Study
Connected Value Stream Taxonomy
Culture Shock! The Impact of Organizational Culture on
QRM Implementation
The Double-D Cell for Assembling Hardware in Upholstered
Furniture Production
Ergonomic Evaluation of Manufacturing System Designs
Flexibility is an Ongoing Challenge
Flexibility Meets Production Challenges
Getting Cells in Place
Group Technology for Workcell Design
How Group Technology Workcells are Different
How to Design Workcells
Hybrid Lean for Make-to-Order Shops
The Impact of Takt Time on Cell Design
Investigating the Applicability of a Pull System in a Manufac-
turing Cell Using Simulation
Just-in-Time Scheduling with Machining Economics for
Single Machine Turning Process
Lean Initiatives and Lean Learning
Lean Manufacturing Systems and Cell Design Book Summary
A Managerial Classification of Cellular Manufacturing
Systems to Facilitate Cycle Time Reduction
Manufacturing System Design Case Study: Multi-channel
Manufacturing at Electrical Box & Enclosures
Manufacturing System Modeling for Productivity Improvement
Mass vs. Lean Plant Design Evaluation Using the Production
System Design Decomposition
A Novel Algorithm for Parallel Machine Scheduling
A Novel Approach to Part Family Formation in Cellular
Manufacturing Using Fuzzy Analysis in CAD/CAM
Predicting the Performance of Rescheduling Strategies for
Parallel Machine Systems
Product Matrix Analysis Tools for Custom Manufacturers
Pros & Cons of Lean Manufacturing
Pushing the Productivity Envelope
Reconsider Machine Layout to Optimize Production
Scheduling Jobs to Improve Weighted On-time Performance
of a Single Machine
A Simulation Approach to Line Balancing in Discrete Mass
Production Flow System and an Application
Solving the Machine Shop Scheduling Problem Through the
Integration of a Knowledge-based System and a Gantt
Chart Scheduling Application
Speed JIT Manufacturing with Cells
Statistics, Agile Systems, and Cpk
The Trade-off Between Intracell and Intercell Moves in
Group Technology Cell Formation
Using Simulation to Implement Time Slicing
What Kind of Numbers Can a Company Expect After
Implementing Quick Response Manufacturing?
When Cells Make Sense
Achieving Competitive Advantage by Combining
SCM and ERP
Backbone of the Lean Enterprise
Building a Lean Supply Chain
Building Healthy Partner Relationships
Getting Outsourcing to Work in the Supply Chain
Johnson Controls Increases Supply-chain Respon-
siveness
The Lean Supply Chain has an Internet Link
Manufacturing Problems Due to Poor Understand-
ing of Supply Chain and Supplier Development—
A Case Study
OEMs Forging Supply Chain Rules
Time-based Supply Management: Managing the
Extended Enterprise