Lean Manufacturing: A Plant Floor Guide

Written by TSD, Inc. This is a complete inventory of the elements needed for successful implementation. It provides an overview and a specific rationale for your initiative.  It's a virtual toolbox of information that can be readily put to use on the floor.  It's a comprehensive, 'street-level' journey through lean implementation, from the seven wastes and flow processes to developing a business case, using lean tools.

Published by Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 2001, Edited by Allen, Robinson, and Stewart, ISBN: 0-87263-525-2  approx. 500 pages, hardcover

Order code: PI-2907 • Price: $105

Quick Die Change

Considered the most respected reference on quick die change in print, this book offers technical guidelines, managerial strategies, and hands on examples to help you make dramatic setup time reductions. Covers theory and history of quick die change; achieving teamwork; attaining setup repeatability; and more!

Published by Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 1991

By D. Smith, ISBN: 0-87263-393-4, 357 pages, hardcover

Price: $85 • Order code: PI-1706

Making Manufacturing Cells Work

Based on over ten years of hands-on cell planning and installation worldwide this book analyzes FMC conceptual development, implementation, integration and future trends. Chapters include: the FMC Project Organization, Macro Facility Planning, Evaluating Alternative FMCs, Selling FMC Concepts to Top Management, Material Handling, Robot Applications, Quality Control Systems, Conducting Detail Design, Equipment Specification, Vendor Selection, and also Auditing Cell Performance.

Published by Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 1992, Edited by L. Nyman, ISBN: 0-87263-419-1,

388 pages, hardcover  

Price: $80 • Order code: PI-2023

Lean Manufacturing for the Small Shop

Whether your organization employs 100 or 10, this book gives you the sound principles to plan, streamline, and objectively evaluate your enterprise without hiring expensive consultants. It thoroughly explains the Lean philosophy with easy-to-digest examples and stories, giving you and your associates the know-how to quickly implement the approach everyone is talking about. Also, includes a special hands-on CD-ROM, containing useful training tools, examples, and samples.

Published by Society of Manufacturing Engineers • 2001 • By Gary Conner • 250 pages • hardcover • ISBN: 0-87263-520-1

Price: $75 • Order code: PI-2874

The Lean Company—Making the Right Choices

This book deals with all facets of your company, from top management to product development to the production line and customer service. This philosophical paradigm (drawn from the highly-respected Lean Enterprise Model developed by the MIT Lean Manufacturing Initiative), along with specific recommendations, will give you the roadmap for improving your company’s competitiveness. The Lean Company: Making the Right Choices paints a picture of what the lean company should look like: a Visual seamless tapestry of the best models, Just-In-Time, Continuous Improvement, Value Stream MappingSM, Controls, Kaizen, and many others. The authors also share a method they have developed to link prescribed actions to your company’s financials, based on the Balance Scorecardsm, a recent development in the accounting world.

Published by Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 2001 • By J. Jordan & F. Michel, 300 pages,

hardcover ISBN: 0-87263-523-6

Price: $71 • Order code: PI-2906

Running Today’s Factory A Proven Strategy for Lean Manufacturing

This book synthesizes lean manufacturing into a concise and coherent strategy for manufacturing managers. The philosophies and principles presented are reinforced with examples from the authors’ research and work. Common obstacles and barriers that may be encountered in a lean environment are discussed, and both intuitive and mathematical proofs are provided to illustrate why lean philosophies can transform modern manufacturing.

Co-published by SME and Hanser Gardner, 1999  By C. Standard & Dr. D. Davis, ISBN: 0-87263-513-0, 336 pages, hardcover

Price: $59 •  Order code: PI-2803

Tool and Manufacturing Engineers Handbook: Continuous Improvement

Discover the benefits of implementing a continuous improvement program, including lower cost of products, increased prestige in the marketplace, increased productivity through greater efficiency, and opportunities for reduced inventory. You’ll learn how to deploy your company resources to maximum efficiency, produce higher quality products, and understand how to identify and correct problems that become obstacles to sustaining profitability.

Published by Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 1993, 512 pages, hardcover, ISBN: 0-87263-420-5

Price: $136 • Order code: PI-2139