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Lean manufacturing resource guide
Our listing of these resources here implies no endorsement of products
or services.
Sources of devices used in lean manufacturing
Industry associations
You see a list of categories and click on one to access the list of matching
associations.
Factory tours
The
superfactory site offers a list of factories in various industries that
offer either actual or online tours of their facilities.
Commercial sites related to lean manufacturing
Why do we point you to the sites of other consulting organizations? Are
we nuts? Even the firms that are listed here do not do reciprocate, so
why do them a favor? Actually, we are concerned about helping
you, not them. The companies we list
have information on their sites that we have found useful, but we do not
otherwise endorse them in any way.
The Lean Supermarket offers the supplies needed for Lean Manufacturing
implementations - 5S, kaizen, kanban, SMED, and more, from clipboard and forms
to erasable paint and powerpoint slides.
New Product Dynamics is
Preston Smith's
consulting firm specializing on new product development and a complementor to
MMTI. New Product Dynamics and MMTI have collaborated on projects from the
Midwest to China.
Universal Training is a professional organization with the objective of
serving Hong Kong based manufacturers by offering specialized manufacturing
technology training programs conducted by overseas industrial experts, many of
whom are provided by MMTI.
Adams &
Associates Executive Search Consultants
This firm specializes in recruiting executives with a lean manufacturing
experience. If you need a plant manager or a vice president of manufacturing
with this kind of background, they may be able to help you.
Shingijutsu is an 11-year old firm started by ex-Toyota group executives
who had worked with Taiichi Ohno. This part of their site presents a case
of shop floor improvement through standard work, complete with filled out
capacity analysis forms and work combination charts.
Productivity Press was the first and is still the largest publisher of English translations
of Japanese books about JIT/lean production, as well as of
Michel Baudin's
"Lean
Assembly" and "Lean Logistics."
We sell many of their books in our bookstore.
This site could use a more descriptive name! It belongs to consultant John
Henry, whose specialty is changeover time reduction on packaging lines.
While we haven't seen John Henry's work, we like his web site. It contains
useful information on a well defined special topic.
James Womack has left MIT and started the "Lean Enterprise Institute."
Are the two events related? Possibly. The lean enterprise institute web
site advertises seminars, conferences, and benchmarking studies.
E-Tutorials for Lean Manufacturing, Lean Six Sigma, Balanced Scorecard, ISO
9001, Strategic Planning, and Supply Chain
Management.
Academic sites related to lean production
For a while, we couldn't find MIT's lean production lab on the web and
we were wondering where they had vanished. They let us know that they are
still around, under a different name.
Utah State University:
the Shingo Prize
The Shingo prize is awarded yearly to North American companies for
excellence in lean production.
Recent
advances in manufacturing database from the University of Edinborough
A database of articles from 500 journals about a variety of manufacturing
topics, with an academic flavor.
In Australia, they still call it JIT. This site contains a comprehensive
introduction to the subject, written by university students as part of
their class work.
Web directories
KwBrowse -- Browse keywords.