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Book Description

April 1, 2005
Complete description of Toyota Production System 14 concepts. Plus never before published, "Train the Trainer" recently translated into English. Now you can have the same results training just as the Japanese do. The secret is out! If you are holding or are thinking about holding a Kaizen event, then this book is essential. Step by step guide to conducting your own Kaizen event. Contains all the details, instructions, forms, checksheets and guidelines necessary to succeed. Contains a real life simulation exercise, with answers and suggestions on how to improve your events. How to determine where an event should be held. How many participants is best? what kind of preparation is needed? Who should be on the management team? Who should the participants be? What should be done about production during an event? How can we finalize the improvements and prevent regression? What about the next event: Where should it be? When should it be? Who should be on the teams?

These and other questions about holding an event are covered in this manual.

All applicable worksheets are included!

Also in the book is "The History of Lean," discribes where Kaizen originated. Plus a glossary of "lean" terms and "100 Years of Lean".


Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

This workbook is the "bible" for holding Kaizen Events. It is reccommended that all team leaders and key management personnel read this before they stage their first event. It will save a lot of time and prevent failure. This manual took ten years of hosting Kaizen events, with companies around the world, to perfect. This is for serious students of Kaizen

From the Author

When I host an event I use this manual because it is so thorough and covers all the details. It has been upgraded steadily for ten years. Now it is available to the public

Product Details

  • Plastic Comb: 222 pages
  • Publisher: SME now sells the updated 5th Edition of Kaizen Event Implementation Manual (April 1, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0970872402
  • ISBN-13: 978-0970872401
  • Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.8 x 0.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,761,681 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Another consultant's info-mercial, August 16, 2001
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If you can learn to dance by reading a book whose recommendation was to hold your partner and "move to the music", then you may find "Kaizen Event Implementation Manual" useful. This book talks about the history and terminology of lean manufacturing and does go into detail about team member selection. After that, this book shows blank forms of some of the data analysis forms often used during a kaizen event, but tells you nothing of how to complete the forms and analyze the results. Nor is there any "road map" or guidelines for conducting a kaizen event itself. There is information about how to contact the author in the event that you decide to hire him to "fill in all blanks" in person. The book is simply another info-mercial where in this case, you are paying for the advertisement.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Kaizen Event Implementation Manual, February 12, 2001
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WOW! Everything I needed to stay on track. Every detail of hosting a Kaizen Event is here! Nothing is left out. It gave me detailed instructions, with check sheets, from weeks before the event, to the follow-up activities. The simulation exercise was so life-like and real. It prepared our Team Leaders better than we had hoped for. What we learned from doing the simulation, was exactly what we needed to stage our event successfully. The extra material on the history of lean was informative and new to me.
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13 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Too much filler and not enough meat..., January 9, 2002
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I was disappointed with this book on a couple levels. First, I was expecting an "Event Implementation Manual." What I found was an exhaustive rehash of the history of not only Kaizen but a good chunk of the industrial revolution, a glossary of largely unrelated terms, about 50 pages of case study exercise, along with some tips and tricks for implementing a kaizen. The 70-some pages related to kaizen events is a good overview for someone familiar with this tool, but not geared for the beginner. The check sheets describing event preparation and follow up were most useful. On another level, I found the obvious lack of the use of an editor or proofreader very distracting. The kaizen event consulting rates listed in the back were the final straw. Stick to Laraia, Moody and Hall's "The Kaizen Blitz." <I>This review refers to an earlier edition.</I>
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