(SME: Dearborn, MI) -- A long-time advocate of lean practices, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) member and author, Mark Hamel, has been awarded The Shingo Prize Research and Professional Publications Award for the Kaizen Event Fieldbook: Foundation, Framework, and Standard Work for Effective Events (SME, 2009).

Presented on the week of May 17 at The Shingo Prize Annual Conference, the Shingo Research Award recognizes and promotes research and writing regarding new knowledge and understanding of lean and operational excellence.

“Receiving the Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award is truly an honor and, at the same time, very humbling,” says Hamel. “The award is recognition of not only my work, but also that of the Kaizen Event Fieldbook’s contributors, reviewers, editors, and many others in the lean community who helped make the book better than it would have been. I hope that leaders and practitioners find the Fieldbook’s contribution to the overall lean body of knowledge value-added.”

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