During our “Lean” career, we have benefited from many books published on the subject of Lean Manufacturing and other business performance improvement techniques. Our thanks and acknowledgements are extended to the authors for their insight and vision - these books are listed alphabetically below.

Becoming Lean, Jeffrey K. Liker
Do It Right The Second Time, Peter Merrill
Fast Track to Waste-Free Manufacturing, John W. Davis
5 Pillars of the Visual Workplace, Hiroyuki Hirano
Gemba Kaizen, Masaaki Imai
The Goal, Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Go-Go Tools, Shigehiro Nakamura
If it ain’t broke…Break It!, Robert J. Kriegel & Louis Patler
Implementing TPM, Charles J. Robinson & Andrew P. Ginder
The Kaizen Blitz, Anthony C. Laraia & Patricia E. Moody & Robert W. Hall
Lean Thinking, James P. Womack & Daniel T. Jones
Learning to See, Mike Rother & John Shook
The Machine that Changed the World, James P. Womack & Daniel T. Jones & Daniel T. Roos
Make No Mistakes!, C. Martin Hinckley
Manufacturing Strategy, John Miltenburg
The New Manufacturing Challenge, Kiyoshi Suzaki
Poka-Yoke, NKS/Factory Magazine
TPM for the Lean Factory, Ken’ichi Sekine & Keisuke Arai
Toyota Production System, Yasuhiro Monden
The Visual Factory, Michel Greif