Environmental Professional’s Guide to Lean and Six Sigma: Appendix A

Lean and Six Sigma Resources

Flinchbaugh, Jamie and Andy Carlino. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Lean: Lessons from the Road. Dearborn, MI: Society for Manufacturing Engineers, 2006.
Liker, Jeffrey K. (ed.) Becoming Lean: Inside Stories of U.S. Manufacturers. Portland, OR: Productivity Press, 1998.
Liker, Jeffrey K. The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World’s Greatest Manufacturer. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004.
Pascal, Dennis. Lean Production Simplified: A Plain Language Guide to the World’s Most Powerful Production System. New York: Productivity Press, 2002.
Womack, James P., Daniel T. Jones, and Daniel Roos. The Machine That Changed the World. New York: Rawson Associates, 1990.
Womack, James P. and Daniel T. Jones. Lean Solutions: How Companies and Customers Can Create Value and Wealth Together. New York: Free Press, 2005.
Womack, James P. and Daniel T. Jones. Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.

Breyfogle, Forrest W. III. Implementing Six Sigma: Smarter Solutions Using Statistical Methods. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1999.
King and Michalski. Six Sigma Tool Navigator. New York: Productivity Press, 2003.

Greif, Michel. The Visual Factory: Building Participation Through Shared Information. Portland, OR: Productivity Press, 1995.
Hirano, Hiroyuki. 5 Pillars of the Visual Workplace: The Sourcebook for 5S Implementation. New York: Productivity Press, 1995.
Peterson, Jim, Roland Smith, Ph.D. The 5S Pocket Guide. Portland, OR: Productivity Press, 1998.
Productivity Press Development Team. 5S for Operators: 5 Pillars of the Visual Workplace. Portland, OR: Productivity Press, 1996.
Productivity Press Development Team. 5S for Safety Implementation Toolkit: Creating Safe Conditions Using the 5S System. Portland, OR: Productivity Press, 2000.
Productivity Press Development Team. 5S for Safety: New Eyes for the Shop Floor. Portland, OR: Productivity Press, 1999.
Shimbun, Nikkan Kogyo, ed. Visual Control Systems. Portland, OR: Productivity Press, 1995.

Hyer, Nancy and Urban Wemmerlöv. Reorganizing the Factory: Competing Through Cellular Manufacturing. Portland, OR: Productivity Press, 2001.
Kobayashi, Iwao. 20 Keys to Workplace Improvement. Portland, OR: Productivity Press, 1995.
Productivity Press Development Team. Cellular Manufacturing: One-Piece Flow for Workteams. Portland, OR: Productivity Press, 1999.
Sekine, Ken’ichi. One Piece Flow: Cell Design for Transforming the Manufacturing Process. Portland, OR: Productivity Press, 1992.

Productivity Press Development Team. Just-in-Time for Operators. Portland, OR: Productivity Press, 1998.
Productivity Press Development Team. Kanban for the Shopfloor. Portland, OR: Productivity Press, 2002.

Productivity Press Development Team. Identifying Waste on the Shopfloor. Portland, OR: Productivity Press, 2003.
Productivity Press Development Team. Kaizen for the Shopfloor. Portland, OR: Productivity Press, 2002.

Mascitelli, Ronald. The Lean Design Guide Book. Northridge, CA: Technology Perspectives, 2004.
Vaughn, Amanda, Fernandes Pradeep, and J. Tom Shields. “An Introduction to the Manufacturing System Design Framework – Draft.” A product of the Manufacturing Systems Team of the Lean Aerospace Initiative.

Pojasek, Robert B. “Poka-Yoke and Zero Waste.” Environmental Quality Management (Winter, 1999) 91–97.
Pojasek, Robert B. “Zeroing In.” Environmental Quality Management (Summer 1999) 93–97.
Productivity Press Development Team. Standard Work for the Shopfloor. New York: Productivity Press, 2002.

Campbell, John Dixon. Uptime: Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management. Portland, OR: Productivity Press, 1995.
The Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance, ed. TPM for Every Operator. Portland, OR: Productivity Press, 1996.

Rother, Mike and John Shook. Learning to See: Value Stream Mapping to Create Value and Eliminate Muda. Brookline, MA: Lean Enterprise Institute, Inc., 2003.
Tapping, Don, Tom Luyster, and Tom Shuker. Value Stream Management: Eight Steps to Planning, Mapping, and Sustaining Lean Improvements. New York: Productivity, Inc., 2002.

EPA Lean Manufacturing and the Environment Website - This website provides information on the relationship of Lean to the environment, case studies, and tools for integrating environmentalconsiderations into Lean methods.
EPA Lean Thinking and Methods Webpage - This provides descriptions of methods used in Lean and Six Sigma.
Lean Enterprise Institute Exit - LEI is a non-profit research and training organization focused on value stream mapping and Lean principles.
National Association of Manufacturers Exit - This organization is working towards modernization of U.S. manufacturing and making U.S. manufacturing more competitive.
National Institute of Standards and Technology Manufacturing Extension Partnership - NIST MEP Centers are non-profit Lean technical assistance providers.
Productivity Press Exit - Productivity Press is a private Lean publishing company.