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Our favorite books on lean manufacturing an lean enterprise.

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Top Ten

These books must be in every lean library.

Accounting for World Class Operations
by Jerry Solomon & Rosemary Fullerton
Featured in the December/2007 Superfactory Newsletter
Creating Level Pull
by Art Smalley
Featured in the July/2004 Superfactory Newsletter
Extreme Toyota
by Emi Osono
Featured in the June/2008 Superfactory Newsletter
Getting the Right Things Done
by Pascal Dennis
Featured in the January/2007 Superfactory Newsletter
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Lean: Lessons from the Road
by Andy Carlino & Jamie Flinchbaugh
Featured in the January/2006 Superfactory Newsletter
Implementing World Class Manufacturing, 2nd Edition
by Larry Rubich and Mattie Watson
Featured in the June/2004 Superfactory Newsletter
The Lean Design Guidebook
by Ronald Mascitelli
Featured in the February/2005 Superfactory Newsletter
The Toyota Way Fieldbook
by Jeffrey Liker
Featured in the October/2005 Superfactory Newsletter

Featured Books

Accounting for World Class Operations
by Jerry Solomon & Rosemary Fullerton
Featured in the December/2007 Superfactory Newsletter
Achieve lasting process improvement : reach Six Sigma goals without the pain Achieve Lasting Process Improvement: Reach Six Sigma Goals Without the Pain
by Bennet P. Lientz, Kathryn P. Rea
Featured in the August/2002 Superfactory Newsletter
Go to fullsize image All I Need to Know About Manufacturing I Learned in Joe's Garage
by William B. Miller
Featured in the February/2002 Superfactory Newsletter
All You Gotta Do Is Ask All You Gotta Do Is Ask
by Norman Bodek
Featured in the March/2005 Superfactory Newsletter
Best Practices in Lean Six Sigma Process Improvement
by Richard Schonberger
Featured in the January/2008 Superfactory Newsletter
Breaking Through to Flow
by Ian Glenday
Featured in the June/2007 Superfactory Newsletter
Go to fullsize image Build Your Own Garage: Blueprints and Tools to Unleash Your Company's Hidden Creativity
By: Bernd H. Schmitt, Laura Brown
Featured in the September/2001 Superfactory Newsletter
Go to fullsize image Building the Awesome Organization: Six Essential Components that Drive Entrepreneurial Growth
by Katherine Catlin, Jana B. Matthews, Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership
Featured in the April/2002 Superfactory Newsletter
Go to fullsize image Buying for Business: Insights in Purchasing and Supply Management
by Christopher Barratt
Featured in the January/2005 Superfactory Newsletter
Chain Reaction: How Today's Best Companies Manage Their Supply Chains
by Robert Malone
Featured in the September/2007 Superfactory Newsletter
Go to fullsize image Collaborative Manufacturing: Using Real-Time Information to Support the Supply Chain
by Michael McClell
Featured in the February/2003 Superfactory Newsletter
Creating Level Pull
by Art Smalley
Featured in the July/2004 Superfactory Newsletter
Go to fullsize image Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing Knowledge
by Etienne Wenger, Richard McDermott, William M. Snyder
Featured in the May/2002 Superfactory Newsletter
Demand Management Best Practices: Process, Principles, and Collaboration
by Colleen Crum and George Palmatier

Featured in the January/2004 Superfactory Newsletter
Design Management: Using Design to Build Brand Value
by Brigitte Borja de Mozota
Featured in the April/2004 Superfactory Newsletter
  Energy Efficiency, Water and Waste-Reduction Guidebook for Manufacturers
by National Association of Manufacturers
Featured in the April/2005 Superfactory Newsletter
Essentials of Balanced Scorecard
by Mohan Nair
Featured in the May/2004 Superfactory Newsletter
Essentials of Manufacturing Engineering Management
by Peter N. T. Pang
Featured in the April/2004 Superfactory Newsletter
Evolving Excellence: Thoughts on Lean Enterprise Leadership
by Kevin Meyer and Bill Waddell
Featured in the February/2007 Superfactory Newsletter
Extending the Supply Chain: How Cutting-Edge Companies Bridge the Critical Last Mile
by Kenneth Karel Boyer
Featured in the September/2004 Superfactory Newsletter
Extreme Toyota
by Emi Osono
Featured in the June/2008 Superfactory Newsletter
Fab: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop - From Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication
by Neil Gershenfeld
Featured in the June/2005 Superfactory Newsletter
Fundamentals of Flow Manufacturing
by Gerard Leone, Richard D. Rahn

Featured in the April/2003 Superfactory Newsletter
Go to fullsize image Fundamentals of Preventive Maintenance
by John M. Gross
Featured in the May/2003 Superfactory Newsletter
Future Capable Company: What Manufacturing Leaders Need to Do Today to Succeed Tomorrow Future Capable Company: What Manufacturing Leaders Need to Do Today to Succeed Tomorrow
by James A. Tompkins
Featured in the October/2001 Superfactory Newsletter
Getting the Right Things Done
by Pascal Dennis
Featured in the January/2007 Superfactory Newsletter
Getting Lean: An Introduction to Lean Business Practices
by Jerry Feingold

Featured in the March/2006 Superfactory Newsletter
The Gold Mine: A Novel of Lean Turnaround
by Freddy and Michael Balle
Featured in the July/2005 Superfactory Newsletter
Go to fullsize image Henry Ford's Lean Vision
by William A. Levinson
Featured in the October/2002 Superfactory Newsletter
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Lean: Lessons from the Road
by Andy Carlino & Jamie Flinchbaugh
Featured in the January/2006 Superfactory Newsletter
Hoshin Kanri for the Lean Enterprise
by Tom Jackson
Featured in the August/2006 Superfactory Newsletter
How to Prevent Lean Implementation Failures
by Larry Rubrich
Featured in the December/2004 Superfactory Newsletter
Go to fullsize image Identifying Waste on the Shopfloor

Featured in the July/2003 Superfactory Newsletter
Go to fullsize image Implementing World Class Manufacturing - A Shop Floor Manual
by Larry Rubrich, Madelyn Watson
Featured in the January/2002 Superfactory Newsletter
Implementing World Class Manufacturing, 2nd Edition
by Larry Rubich and Mattie Watson
Featured in the June/2004 Superfactory Newsletter
The Incredible Payback: Innovative Sourcing Solutions
by Dave Nelson, Patricia Moody, Jonathan Stegner
Featured in the February/2005 Superfactory Newsletter
The Innovation Superhighway: Harnessing Intellectual Capital for Collaborative Advantage
by Debra M Amidon
Featured in the November/2002 Superfactory Newsletter
Go to fullsize image Insights to Performance Excellence 2002: An Inside Look at the 2002 Baldrige Award Criteria
by Mark L. Blazey

Featured in the June/2002 Superfactory Newsletter
Integrated Enterprise Excellence
by Forrest Breyfogle
Featured in the March/2008 Superfactory Newsletter
JIT is Flow
by Hirano and Furuya
Featured in the April/2006 Superfactory Newsletter
Just Add Management: Seven Steps to Creating a Productive Workplace
by Farzad Dibachi
Featured in the August/2004 Superfactory Newsletter
Kaikaku: The Power and Magic of Lean
by Norman Bodek
Featured in the May/2004 Superfactory Newsletter
Kaizen and the Art of Creative Thinking
by Shigeo Shingo
Featured in the November/2007 Superfactory Newsletter
Kaizen Desk Reference Standard
by Raphael L. Vitalo, Frank Butz, Joseph P. Vitalo
Featured in the February/2004 Superfactory Newsletter
Kanban Made Simple
by John M. Gross, Kenneth R. McInnis
Featured in the June/2003 Superfactory Newsletter
Lean Cost Accounting
by Jim Huntzinger
Featured in the July/2007 Superfactory Newsletter
The Lean Design Guidebook
by Ronald Mascitelli
Featured in the February/2005 Superfactory Newsletter
Go to fullsize image The Lean Extended Enterprise: Moving Beyond the Four Walls to Value Stream Excellence
by Terence Burton and Steven Boeder
Featured in the September/2003 Superfactory Newsletter
Lean Hospitals
by Mark Graban

Featured in the August/2008 Superfactory Newsletter
Go to fullsize image The Lean Lexicon
by Chet Marchwinski and John Shook

Featured in the November/2004 Superfactory Newsletter
Lean Logistics: The Nuts and Bolts of Delivering Materials and Goods
by Michel Baudin
Featured in the May/2005 Superfactory Newsletter
Lean Manufacturing That Works
by Bill Carreira
Featured in the December/2004 Superfactory Newsletter
Go to fullsize image Lean Manufacturing: A Plant Floor Guide
by Charles Robinson, David Stewart, John Allen
Featured in the July/2002 Superfactory Newsletter
Go to fullsize image Lean Performance ERP Management: Implementing the Virtual Supply Chain
by Brian J. Carroll
Featured in the March/2002 Superfactory Newsletter
The Lean Product Development Guide
by Ron Mascitelli
Featured in the December/2006 Superfactory Newsletter
Lean Six Sigma That Works by Bill Carreira: Book Cover Lean Six Sigma That Works
by Bill Carreira and Bill Trudell
Featured in the November/2006 Superfactory Newsletter
Go to fullsize image Lean Solutions
by James Womack and Daniel Jones
Featured in the September/2005 Superfactory Newsletter
Life's Little Lean Accounting Instruction Book
by Brian Maskell & Susan Lilly
Featured in the October/2006 Superfactory Newsletter
Make or Break
by Kaj Grichnik & Conrad Winkler
Featured in the April/2008 Superfactory Newsletter
Making Materials Flow
by RIck Harris, Chris Harris, and Earl Wilson

Featured in the February/2004 Superfactory Newsletter
Go to fullsize image Manufacturing Handbook of Best Practices: An Innovation, Productivity, & Quality Focus
by Jack B. ReVelle
Featured in the December/2001 Superfactory Newsletter
Go to fullsize image Maximizing Your ERP System: A Practical Guide for Managers
by Scott Hamilton
Featured in the December/2002 Superfactory Newsletter
The Myth of Excellence: Why Great Companies Never Try to Be the Best at Everything
by Fred Crawford, Ryan Mathews
Featured in the September/2001 Superfactory Newsletter
The Outsourcing Revolution: How To Do It Right
by Michael Corbett
Featured in the October/2004 Superfactory Newsletter
Practical Lean Accounting: A Proven System for Measuring and Managing the Lean Enterprise
by Bruce Baggaley, James Leflar, Brian H. Maskell
Featured in the December/2003 Superfactory Newsletter
Practical Lean Leadership
by Bob Emiliani

Featured in the February/2008 Superfactory Newsletter
Go to fullsize image Product Development for the Lean Enterprise: Why Toyota's System is Four Times More Productive and How You Can Implement It
by Michael Kennedy
Featured in the October/2003 Superfactory Newsletter
The Project Manager Advisor: 18 Major Project Screw-ups and How to Cut Them Off at the Pass
by Lonnie Pacelli
Featured in the October/2004 Superfactory Newsletter
Quick Changeover Simplified
by Fletcher Birmingham and Jim Jelinek
Featured in the March/2007 Superfactory Newsletter
Real Lean (Volume 1)
by Bob Emiliani
Featured in the August/2007 Superfactory Newsletter
Real Lean (Volume 2)
by Bob Emiliani
Featured in the August/2007 Superfactory Newsletter
Real Lean Volume 3
by Bob Emiliani
Featured in the July/2008 Superfactory Newsletter
Rebirth of American Industry - A Study of Lean Management
by Bill Waddell & Norman Bodek
Featured in the December/2005 Superfactory Newsletter
Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems and Transformable Factories
by Anatoli Dashchenko
Featured in the September/2006 Superfactory Newsletter
Reliability-Centered Maintenance: Gateway to World Class
by Anthony Smith and Glenn Hinchcliffe
Featured in the January/2004 Superfactory Newsletter
Reorganizing the Factory: Competing Through Cellular Manufacturing
by Nancy Hyer, Urban Wemmerlov
Featured in the September/2002 Superfactory Newsletter
Reverse Logistics: Quantitative Models for Closed Loop Supply Chains
by Rommert Dekker

Featured in the March/2004 Superfactory Newsletter
Six Disciplines for Excellence
by Gary Harpst
Featured in the August/2005 Superfactory Newsletter
The Six Sigma Black Belt Handbook
by Thomas McCarty, Lorraine Daniels, Michael Bremer, Praveen Gupta
Featured in the March/2005 Superfactory Newsletter
Six Sigma: Financial Tracking & Reporting
by Bremer, McKibben, and McCarty
Featured in the February/2006 Superfactory Newsletter
Supply Chain Excellence
by Peter Bolstorff
Featured in the October/2007 Superfactory Newsletter
Go to fullsize image Supply Chain Networks and Business Process Orientation: Advanced Strategies and Best Practices
by Kevin P. McCormack, William C. Johnson
Featured in the January/2003 Superfactory Newsletter
Taiichi Ohno's Workplace Management
by Taiichi Ohno

Featured in the May/2007 Superfactory Newsletter
The Toyota Development System
by Morgan and Liker
Featured in the May and June/2006 Superfactory Newsletter
The Toyota Way Fieldbook
by Jeffrey Liker
Featured in the October/2005 Superfactory Newsletter
Training Within Industry: The Foundation of Lean
by Donald Dinero
Featured in the July/2006 Superfactory Newsletter
Transforming Strategy into Success: How to Implement a Lean Management System
by Reb Gooding
Featured in the March/2004 Superfactory Newsletter
Value Acceleration
by Mitchell Gooze
Featured in the May/2008 Superfactory Newsletter
Value Stream and Process Mapping
by Quarterman Lee
Featured in the April/2007 Superfactory Newsletter
Value Stream Mapping for Lean Development
by Drew Locher

Featured in the September/2008 Superfactory Newsletter
Value Stream Management
by Don Tapping
Featured in the August/2003 Superfactory Newsletter
Go to fullsize image Visual Workplace - Visual Thinking
by Gwendolyn Galsworth

Featured in the November/2005 Superfactory Newsletter
What is Lean Six Sigma?
by Michael L. George
Featured in the November/2003 Superfactory Newsletter