Lean production simplified : a plain language guide to the world's most powerful production system / Pascal Dennis ; with a foreword by John Shook.

The birth of lean production. Craft production. The mass production system. The growing dysfunction. The birth of lean production -- The lean production system. Why lean production? Systems and systems thinking. Basic image of lean production. Muda -- Stability. Standards in the lean system. Visual management. The five S system. Total productive maintenance -- Standardized work. Why standardized work? The elements of standardized work. Standardized work and kaizen. The importance of layout -- Just-in-time. why JIT? Flow and pull. Kanban and heijunka. Types of pull systems. Value stream management -- Jidoka. Why jidoka? Using pokayokes. Source inspection. Implementing jidoka -- Involvement. Why involvement? Kaizen circle activity. Practical kaizen training. Suggestion systems. Sustaining involvement -- Hoshin planning. Problems with conventional planning. The hoshin planning system. Creating flow in strategic planning.