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    Going Lean: How the Best Companies Apply Lean Manufacturing Principles to Shatter Uncertainty, Drive Innovation, and Maximize Profits
    Going Lean: How the Best Companies Apply Lean Manufacturing Principles to Shatter Uncertainty, Drive Innovation, and Maximize Profits
    Going Lean: How the Best Companies Apply Lean Manufacturing Principles to Shatter Uncertainty, Drive Innovation, and Maximize Profits
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    Going Lean: How the Best Companies Apply Lean Manufacturing Principles to Shatter Uncertainty, Drive Innovation, and Maximize Profits

    Written by Stephen A. RUFFA

    Narrated by Jim Bond

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    In the wake of economic downturn, foreign competition, spiking oil prices, and even war, American business throughout this decade has been thrust into crisis. To improve their performance, corporations everywhere have adopted a wide range of tools and techniques, yet many continue to struggle. Going Lean points to a better way. Drawing from the lessons of a new breed of companies that have stood apart, it sets aside the notion that efficient operations and powerful innovations are possible only when business is steady and demand is growing. By using lean dynamics—based on principles from the now-famous Toyota Production System—it shows how companies everywhere can thrive across a broad range of changing conditions. In Going Lean, you will learn how to:

    • set a critical foundation for achieving sustained excellence
    • identify sources of lag and create robust value streams that thrive in today’s dynamic conditions
    • describe the underlying techniques to maintain steady and predictable flow
    • create a system driven by customer demand that consistently introduces new innovation even during downturns
    • strive for perfection
    • deliver industry-leading returns
    The diagrams and graphs found in the print and ebook editions of this book have been adapted for audio.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateApr 11, 2017
    ISBN9781536668186
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    Stephen A. RUFFA

    Stephen A. Ruffa is an aerospace engineer, a researcher, and the originator of the concept of lean dynamics. His distinctive observations are framed by a quarter-century of background engaged in supporting many of the Defense Department’s dynamic needs – from the design, manufacture, test, and repair of cutting-edge aircraft, to projects ensuring the availability of critical supplies for wartime demand surges. His joint government-industry study of lean manufacturing tools and practices across seventeen aerospace producers, together with his experience with implementing business improvement initiatives and his research on today’s leading firms gives him the unique perspective that made this project possible. His works have been widely cited and recognized; his previous book, Breaking the Cost Barrier: A Proven Approach to Managing and Implementing Lean Manufacturing (John Wiley & Sons, 2000) was awarded the 2001 Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing Research. He can be contacted at sruffa@goinglean.net.

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