(PCS Press, Vancover, WA) -- Fundamental Principles of Lean Manufacturing (PCS Press and Enna Products Corp., 2009) is the latest discovered and newly translated book by Shigeo Shingo. Shingo provides total access to the fundamentals of improving any process. He directs the reader toward the path of flow operations, the ultimate and attainable goal of process improvement. His method of providing numerous examples with easy-to-understand, yet in-depth explanations of problem solving, is well represented throughout this book; a method that has been key to Shingo’s success.

“The greatest value of this book is an opportunity to learn how a master sensei thinks about operations improvement. We see how Dr. Shingo thought both about macro-improvement of value streams and micro-process improvement,” says Jeffrey Liker, author of The Toyota Way (McGraw-Hill, 2004).

Presented as the foundation to the principles of lean operations, Shingo instructs and illustrates the core successes to:

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