I started with "Lean Six Sigma Demystified", McGraw-Hill "Six Sigma 36-Hour Course", PIA-GATF's "Lean Printing, Pathway to Success" and "Total Productive Maintenance", "Statistical Analysis for Process Engineering", and then the LEI books - "Learning to See", "Making Materials Flow", "Creating Continuous Flow", "Creating Level Pull", and "Seeing the Whole" (I re-read sections of these regularly!). The Continuous Improvement Conference in San Antonio was helpful. Lean and Green Seminar helped our Plant Manager considerably. Then I built training seminars - "Intro to Lean Thinking", "Lean Manufacturing 101 and 201", "The Lean Six Sigma Approach to Kaizen Events", to disperse the new knowledge/information. The training is going pretty well - a very good environment to measure current buy-in. Thinking about a consultant/sensei after we pick some of the 'low-hanging fruit' and move closer to level pull and continuous flow production concepts.
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