Lonnie Wilson, 20-year veteran of oil & gas giant Chevron and the long-time proprietor of El Paso, TX-based Quality Consultants, this month published How to Implement Lean Manufacturing, a guide to achieving the sought-after efficiencies of the popular discipline.
Publisher McGraw-Hill pitches the title as a guide to “proven solutions for implementing lean manufacturing in an enterprise environment, covering the engineering and production aspects as well as the business culture concerns.”
The book is said to lay out specific sequences of activities that lean aspirants should follow, and draws much of its authority from the case studies that Wilson details. In addition to a rash of other techniques, How to Implement Lean Manufacturing reportedly details how to assess your own “leanness”; how to create and implement lean techniques in the production setting; how to set up pull-based demand systems; and how to set up cell-based manufacturing.