Shingo Prize Winner!
Lean Production Simplified
Second Edition
A Plain-Language Guide to the World's Most Powerful
Production System
Pascal Dennis
Lean Productivity Network
ISBN: 978-1-56327-356-8, March 2007, 192 pp., Soft Cover
"Lean Production Simplified is both enlightening and informative for all levels of
Lean learners. It is written from a very human perspective."
- Anne Stevens, VP, North America Vehicle Operations, Ford Motor Company
A Shingo Prize Winner for Excellence in Manufacturing Research, this book delivers
an inside practitioner's view of Lean manufacturing. It looks at the origins and underlying principles of Lean,
discusses practical problem solving for Lean production, and details activities that support involvement,
including Kaizen circles and suggestion systems. It covers the Lean Improvement Process; Production Physics
and Little's Law; Value Stream Thinking; the Hoshin Planning and Execution Tree diagram; and Problem
Solving by way of the Five Why method.
