Press Releases

June 2003

For Immediate Release

NEW BOOK SHOWS HOW TO ELIMINATE WASTE FROM THE SHOPFLOOR

New York… The goal of Lean production is to increase profits, value and customer satisfaction by vastly improving manufacturing methods. To achieve this success, manufacturers must get rid of waste -- all extraneous and counterproductive assumptions, attitudes, activities, materials, machines, operations and processes.

In an organized an easy-to-assimilate manner, the compact Identifying Waste on the Shopfloor, by the Productivity Press Development Team, covers the "A"-to-"Z" of exactly what "waste" is, why it is a detriment and how to eliminate it. As an addition to Productivity Press' popular Shopfloor series, this book is the perfect complement to 5S for Operators and TPM for Every Operator.

Like all of Productivity Press' Shopfloor titles, Identifying Waste on the Shopfloor offers shop floor personnel -- operators, supervisors and plant managers -- a simple, cost-effective approach for building basic knowledge about key manufacturing improvement topics. Innovative instructional features include:

• Well organized and easy-to-integrate learning
• Chapter overviews and summaries
• Questions throughout each chapter to help apply the learning to the workplace
• Drawings and illustrations
• Margin icons that flag definitions, main points and other highlights

List price is $25.00. Complimentary review copies are available to media contacts by calling (212) 216-7865 or by e-mailing: leon.carter@taylorandfrancis.com.

About Productivity Press

Founded to provide world-class guidance for every level of an organization, Productivity Press is unrivaled in publishing high-quality material on lean manufacturing and business improvement.  Our books, learning tools and newsletter, Lean Manufacturing Advisor, are designed to help educate and support organizations in their efforts to implement the advanced management and manufacturing methodologies required to compete in today’s global business environment.

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