(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Self-balancing is not just a tweak or change to the formula used to determine assembly line balancing, but a completely transformed method for achieving continuous flow. Among the reasons for trying self-balancing are that you can expect a productivity improvement of at least 30 percent—with improvements of 50–60 percent quite common.

Using a well-tested method for successful improvements initiated by the author, Gordon Ghirann, The Basics of Self-Balancing Processes: True Lean Continuous Flow is the first book to explain how to achieve continuous flow in both simple and complex manufacturing environments. It describes how to recognize and resolve weak links to ensure continuous flow in your manufacturing operations.

The book offers rules, tools, and guidelines to help you not only solve problems at the root, but even eliminate them before they start. It reviews the shortcomings of traditional assembly-line balancing and walks readers through the new paradigm of self-balancing.

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