Bringing scientific thinking to life

• Author : Sylvain Landry
• Publisher : Editions JFD
• Release : 10 June 2022

FACING CHALLENGING GOALS AND UNPREDICTABLE PATHS? PRACTICE SCIENTIFIC THINKING! Your team’s ability to learn and adapt is paramount, and scientific thinking is the key to unlocking this invaluable skill. The bad news: It's not our natural default position as adults. The good news: There’s a simple and proven approach to developing it in any organization or team—including yours—called Toyota Kata. Professor Sylvain Landry lays out a straightforward management practice that enables each level of your organization

• Author : Mike Rother,Gerd Aulinger
• Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
• Release : 19 May 2017

Take advantage of your organization’s brainpower with Kata-driven continuous improvement “This is the first book I have read that provides a clear picture of what it takes to develop and mobilize creative capability across an organization, to achieve challenging goals.” Jeffrey K. Liker, author of The Toyota Way (from the Foreword) Nobody drives continuous improvement in real, tangible ways like Toyota, where everyone at every level works toward common, customer-related goals. At Toyota, continuous improvement is habitual. In his

• Author : Mike Rother
• Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
• Release : 26 December 2017

Create more scientific thinking in your company—two popular guides in one convenient package The Toyota Kata Field Guide Power Pack includes Mike Rother’s groundbreaking companion volumes to his internationally renowned Toyota Kata—the book that launched a global business movement toward a scientific thinking management process that drives continuous improvement. The package includes: The Toyota Kata Practice Guide—a hands-on guide giving both the coach and the learner all the “starter Kata” for everyday practice, and Toyota Kata

• Author : Mike Rother
• Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
• Release : 27 October 2017

Take the Kata path to scientific thinking and superior results! In this long-awaited companion to the groundbreaking book Toyota Kata, Mike Rother takes you to the next level of developing business mindset and capability for the 21st Century. Much more than a list of management concepts, The Toyota Kata Practice Guide walks you through the process of making improvement, adaptation, and even innovation routine behavior. Designed to help a coach (the manager) and a learner work together for developing new

• Author : Alexandre Dolgui,Alain Bernard,David Lemoine,Gregor von Cieminski,David Romero
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release : 01 September 2021

The five-volume set IFIP AICT 630, 631, 632, 633, and 634 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International IFIP WG 5.7 Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, APMS 2021, held in Nantes, France, in September 2021.* The 378 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 529 submissions. They discuss artificial intelligence techniques, decision aid and new and renewed paradigms for sustainable and resilient production systems at four-wall factory and value chain levels. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Part I: artificial intelligence based optimization techniques

• Author : Philip J. Gisi
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release : 16 May 2018

This comprehensive book presents a methodology for continuous process improvement in a structured, logical, and easily understandable framework based on industry accepted tools, techniques, and practices. It begins by explaining the conditions necessary for establishing a stable and capable process and the actions required to maintain process control, while setting the stage for sustainable efficiency improvements driven by waste elimination and process flow enhancement. This structured approach makes a clear connection between the need for a quality process to serve

• Author : Frédéric Noël,Felix Nyffenegger,Louis Rivest,Abdelaziz Bouras
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release : 31 January 2023

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference, PLM 2022, Grenoble, France, July 10–13, 2022, Revised Selected Papers. The 67 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 94 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Organisation: Knowledge Management, Business Models, Sustainability, End-to-End PLM, Modelling tools: Model-Based Systems Engineering, Geometric modelling, Maturity models, Digital Chain Process, Transversal Tools: Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Visualization and Interaction, Machine learning, Product development: Design Methods, Building Design, Smart Products,

• Author : Elaine Mead,Cameron Stark,Maimie Thompson
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release : 15 December 2022

Typically entrenched and systemic, healthcare problems require the sort of comprehensive solutions that can only be addressed by a change in culture and a shift in thinking. Organizations around the world are using Lean to redesign care and improve processes in a way that achieves and sustains meaningful results for patients, staff, physicians, and health systems. This book demonstrates how honest appraisal, intelligent planning, and vigilant follow-up have led to dramatic improvements in a variety of healthcare settings across the

• Author : Conrad Soltero,Patrice Boutier
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release : 27 July 2017

The biggest competitive advantage an organization can achieve comes from the synergies created by employees skilled in enhancing organizational dynamics. The Seven Kata: Toyota Kata, TWI, and Lean Training supplies time-tested tools and advice to help readers adapt to changing conditions and outcompete their rivals. It explains why a mix of the ski

• Author : M. Peruzzini,M. Pellicciari,C. Bil
• Publisher : IOS Press
• Release : 14 September 2018

The concept of concurrent engineering (CE) was first developed in the 1980s. Now often referred to as transdiciplinary engineering, it is based on the idea that different phases of a product life cycle should be conducted concurrently and initiated as early as possible within the Product Creation Process (PCP). The main goal of CE is to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the PCP and reduce errors in later phases, as well as incorporating considerations – including environmental implications – for the

• Author : Patrick Graupp,Robert J. Wrona
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release : 28 June 2018

Featuring strategies employed in Lean, this volume describes the experiences of organizations using TWI more than 60 years after the Training Within Industry program turned the U.S. into the industrial giant that won World War II. Based on their experience implementing TWI in organizations as diverse as Virginia Mason Medical Center and Donnelly Ma

• Author : José Dinis Carvalho
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release : 17 February 2023

This book presents what you need to know to really implement continuous improvement in companies or other organizations. In addition to all the support needed for this to make sense, the importance of the right direction to guide it is unveiled. The reader will find in this book the origins of continuous improvement and all the framing that justifies and demystifies it in the aspects that characterize the socio-technical nature of organizations. This work also explores the need for effective

• Author : Mark Graban
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release : 08 October 2018

Organizations around the world are using Lean to redesign care and improve processes in a way that achieves and sustains meaningful results for patients, staff, physicians, and health systems. Lean Hospitals, Third Edition explains how to use the Lean methodology and mindsets to improve safety, quality, access, and morale while reducing costs, increasing capacity, and strengthening the long-term bottom line. This updated edition of a Shingo Research Award recipient begins with an overview of Lean methods. It explains how Lean

• Author : Osiris Canciglieri Junior,Frédéric Noël,Louis Rivest,Abdelaziz Bouras
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release : 08 February 2022

The two-volume set IFIP AICT 639 and 640 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 18th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management, PLM 2021, held in Curitiba, Brazil, during July 11-14, 2021. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 crisis. The 107 revised full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 133 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Volume I: Sustainability, sustainable development and circular economy; sustainability and information technologies and services; green and

• Author : Dan Prock
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release : 13 October 2021

The Sensei Way at Work follows in the wake of dozens of successful business books on the Toyota production system, lean enterprise, and the Toyota Way, yet it is unique. It identifies the five keys that sustain successful lean production in Western enterprises—a challenge that has stymied business leaders, managers, and lean coaches for decades. The first reason for our frequent inability to sustain the initial gains of lean startups is a misunderstanding of the Japanese term "kaizen mind."