The Lean Design Guidebook: Everything Your Product Development Team Needs to Slash Manufacturing Cost

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Summary: A truly comprehensive and practical book.
Review: I am so impressed with this book! The author covers, in a logical and integrated way, eighteen practical and immediately deployable tips and tools for the cost reduction and value enhancement of any product. I particularly love the "Twenty-Cost-Lever" tradeoff tool; we are already using this to great advantage in my division. I was also impressed with the level of detail and the very readable, step by step directions for implementing the tools. The author clearly is an experienced practitioner and understands just what the reader needs to know to achieve success. I highly recommend this book!

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Summary: Waste of My Time
Review: I find the material to be a minimalized version of the true tools based in quality lean material. As a practicing continuous improvment specialist i expected more than I got in this trivial account of what should be considered a very important event in a corporate life cycle.
Designing products requires exceptional detail. Likewise I expect someone writing a book on the topic to provide exceptional tools and details. This book is superficial at best and points you in a direction, unfortunately it is the wrong direction.

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Summary: An expert compendium of solid advice
Review: The Lean Design Guidebook: Everything Your Product Development Team Needs To Slash Manufacturing Cost by project management expert and consultant Ronald Mascitelli is a spiral-bound guide presenting eighteen practical tools for reducing manufacturing costs. From Six-Sigma Design to Value Engineering, Toyota's Production Preparation Process (3P), and much more, The Lean Design Guidebook presents metrics and tested methods for reducing waste, extensive checklists, step-by-step instructions, and much more. An expert compendium of solid advice.


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Summary: An Extremely Valuable Book!
Review: This was one of the most practical and useful books I've come across for product designers and team leaders. I've already implemented several of the "lean design tools" and believe that they will make a real difference in our firm's profits. The book is comprehensive, the writing style is clear and entertaining, and the numerous graphics are interesting and helpful. I would recommend this book to anyone who is looking for some new ways to squeeze cost out of their products.