December 14, 2006 - Mukilteo, Washington U.S.A.

Here is an update on the publication of Workplace Management, Taiichi Ohno's classic book about how Lean manufacturing (the Toyota Production System) was developed at Toyota Motor Corporation between 1950 and 1989.

As things are proceeding we hope to have it ready to go to the printer for batch production on February 1st, 2007. With their quoted lead-time of one month, we should be shipping in early March 2007.

It pains me to go the batch route but the printer would not take us up on our offer to exchange our SMED consulting services for a smaller run size. We may bite the bullet and do a smaller runs on-demand in the future but the plan at this moment is to run a batch of three thousand books.

If enough of you buy the book, this will not be overproduction.

See below for information on how to order, and other book details.
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Workplace Management
Author: Taiichi Ohno

Translation by Jon Miller

ISBN: 978-0-9786387-5-7
180 pages, hardcover

Publisher: Gemba Press
Expected publishing date: March 1, 2007

Price: $47.95

Description
This classic work by the founding father of the Toyota Production System returns to print in a new translation. Ohno delivers timeless lessons on how to effectively manage your gemba – the actual place or work. He relates stories from across his nearly 40 years of struggle to establish the Toyota Production System as both the mindset and the supporting behaviors of constant improvement. In the book’s 37 chapters, Ohno covers a broad range of topics and lays out the fundamental philosophy of kaizen (continuous improvement) that has made Toyota the most successful automobile manufacturer today.

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Contents
• Foreword
• Chapter 1: The Wise Mend Their Ways
• Chapter 2: If You Are Wrong, Admit It
• Chapter 3: Misconceptions Reduce Productivity
• Chapter 4: Go See What Didn’t Work with Your Own Eyes
• Chapter 5: Misconceptions Hidden within Common Sense
• Chapter 6: The Blind Spot in Cost Calculation
• Chapter 7: Don’t Fear Opportunity Losses
• Chapter 8: Limited Volume Production is to Produce at Low Cost
• Chapter 9: Reduced Inventory, Increased WIP
• Chapter 10: The Misconception that Mass Production is Cheaper
• Chapter 11: Wasted Motion is Not Work
• Chapter 12: Agricultural People Like Inventory
• Chapter 13: Improve Productivity Even with Reduced Volumes
• Chapter 14: Do Kaizen When Times Are Good
• Chapter 15: Just In Time
• Chapter 16: Grandpa Sakichi’s Jidoka Idea
• Chapter 17: The Goal: Improve Productivity Ten-Fold
• Chapter 18: Supermarket System
• Chapter 19: Toyota Made the Kanban System Possible
• Chapter 20: What I Learned About Forging Changeover from Toyota do Brasil
• Chapter 21: Rationalization is Doing what is Rational
• Chapter 22: Shut the Machines Off!
• Chapter 23: Producing at the Lowest Possible Cost
• Chapter 24: Fight the Robot Fad
• Chapter 25: Work is a Game of Wits with Subordinates
• Chapter 26: There Are No Supervisors at the Administrative Gemba
• Chapter 27: We Can Still Do a Lot More Kaizen
• Chapter 28: Wits Don’t Work Until Feel the Squeeze
• Chapter 29: Become a Reliable Boss
• Chapter 30: Seiri Seiton Seiso Seiketsu Shitsuke
• Chapter 31: There is a Correct Sequence to Kaizen
• Chapter 32: Operational Availability vs. Rate of Operation
• Chapter 33: The Difference Between Production Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering
• Chapter 34: The Pitfall of Cost Calculation
• Chapter 35: The Monaka System
• Chapter 36: Only the Gemba Can Do Cost Reduction
• Chapter 37: The Standard Time Should be the Shortest Time
• Afterword
• About the Author
• About the Translator
• Glossary
• Index

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