Lean manufacturing is the production of goods using less of everything compared to mass production: less human effort, less manufacturing space, less investment in tools, and less time to deliver your product. It is also rich in history with the individuals who over the last century have been influential in the development of the five lean principles. If you would like to learn more about lean manufacturing, The LeanMan recommends several books on the subject.

Reading Materials

• Lean Thinking
  Author: Daniel Jones, James Womack
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  Publication Date: 9/9/1996
  
  
• New Manufacturing Challenge : Techniques for Continuous Improvement
  Author: Kiyoshi Suzaki
  Publisher: The Free Press, a division of Simon & Schuster
  Publication Date: 1987
  
  
• The Toyota Way
  Author: Jeffrey K. Liker
  Publisher: McGraw-Hill
  Publication Date: 2004
  
  
• Groups Theory and Experience, 5th ed.
  Author: Napier, Rodney W., Gershenfeld, Matti K.
  Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
  Publication Date: 1993.
  
  
• The Principles of Scientific Management
  Author: Frederick Winslow Taylor
  Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers
  Publication Date: 1911
  
  
• Learning to See: Value-Stream Mapping and Elimination of Muda
  Author: Mike Rother, John Shook
  Publisher: The Lean Enterprise Institute
  Publish Date: June 2003, Version 1.3