Lean Manufacturing That Works: Powerful Tools for Dramatically Reducing Waste and Maximizing Profits

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Summary: Practicle and Usefull
Review: "Lean Manufacturing that Works" might just be the best book on Lean thinking that I've ever read. Its practicle approach and delivery make it a must for anyone truely interested in getting its message accross to people facing real life problems on the shop floor. It has the unique ability to address multiple levels of employees and managers with out losing the key message or audience. This is a must for everyone's arsenal who are responsible for creating and implamenting a change to a Lean culture in their organization.

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Summary: Good for the shop floor.
Review: An easy to read summary of the core components of Lean Manufacturing, and excellent for shop floor supervisors and team members. The anecdotal and story-telling style brings a great dose of the real-world into what otherwise could be a rather dry topic. From a total enterprise perspective, only a couple pages are spent on important topics such as lean accounting, however this book is not written for that audience.

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Summary: The best and most practical Lean Guide ever.
Review: Finally a book that is simple to read, uses language that is understandable to everybody and is not filled with nonsense by an author who never spent any time in a "real world" manufacturing environment. The book cuts through the confusion found in so many other Lean books and shows the reader how to help his company achieve sucess in todays global manufacturing environment. manufacturing people in my company will be reading and following many of the principles outlined in the book.

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Summary: Uncovering Waste
Review: I received information about Bill Carreria's book from a colleague of mine. I found the book to be extremely insightful in the field of "Doing" (training & implementing) Lean manufacturing in a teamwork environment. This book has greatly helped me uncover "waste", Non Value Added activities and develop methods of correcting and measuring. This is the best $20 I've ever spent on anything developed to improve productivity and customers satisfaction. Thanks Bill

Scott

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Summary: Professionally Profound with a Comic Twist
Review: This book is an excellent read. It is full of relevant facts and figures for anyone in the manufacturing industry interested in pumping up efficiency. Carreira's nuts and bolts approach is refreshing and his sense of humor is well-placed. Bravo!