Powering the Lean Enterprise: How to Streamline Operations, Improve Quality, and Gain Customer Loyalty [Hardcover]

In this book, you will learn about: -- Lean thinking. -- Lean mindset. -- The four Lean rules and five Lean principles. -- The Lean transformation roadmap. -- Lean leadership -- Five common Lean pitfalls and how to avoid them -- Kaizen workshops -- Daily improvements and Kata

Bill Artzberger, PMP, LSSBB, is the managing partner at the Lean Learning Center. He specializes in Lean Manufacturing, Innovation, Lean Health Care, Leadership, and Project Management.

He has over thirty-five years of experience in real-world senior management, including CIO, VP, President, and CEO. He has worked with thousands of individuals from the boardroom to the shop floor, in virtually all sectors of industry. Bill holds two patents and brings extensive project management, lean manufacturing, and information technology experience to The Lean Learning Center. He has been published dozens of times and is a co-author of the top-selling Lean book Driving Operational Excellence and the author of Powering the Lean Enterprise. He is also an associate professor at Oakland University and a member of the OU Pawley Center advisory board.

He has successfully implemented lean improvement projects in dozens of companies throughout the world. Bill is an expert in the usage of lean techniques such as value stream mapping, error proofing, quick changeover, kaizens, kanban systems, 5 S, and visual pull systems. He has taught hundreds of lean process classes and is an expert at driving large-scale operational change programs.

Some of his recent projects include:

-- Implementation of production work cells and lean systems for GE. MRP / ERP coupled lean production and inventory system implementations for multiple companies in a variety of industries. Plant re-design and implemented lean production and supply chain systems for airline assembly systems at lãà