ENMA
6040: Lean Systems
Reading
Assignments
The required reading for this course is: Gemba
Kaizen: A Commonsense, Low-Cost Approach
to Management, by Masaaki Imai.
Books will be available at the BookMarq bookstore, but students may
choose other providers at their discretion.
Each
week, you will have a reading assignment from this book, and will answer a set
of review questions associated with the reading assignment. The assignments are listed on the course
schedule web site for this course, which also provides links to review
questions available for download as .doc files.
You will enter your answers to the review questions on these .doc files
and then submit them to the associated D2L drop box for this course.
Your
answers to the questions should be in the form of short phrases or sentences,
not long paragraphs. Your instructor
will link his responses on the course schedule web site after your assignments
are due.
Due
dates for assignments are shown on the course schedule. All assignments must be submitted by the due
date. Since the reading assignments are
available to all students before the first day of class, late submissions will
not be accepted except in cases of extreme personal hardship (1-week grace
period for first assignment will be provided).
Interested
students may wish to pursue additional lean-related resources. The SME lean certificate recommended reading
list can be found here. Two more highly-recommended readings are:
·
Inside
the Mind of Toyota: Management Principles for Enduring Growth
Hino’s
book provides an excellent inside view of how lean manufacturing actually works
at Toyota. A set of study questions for
this book is available here.
·
The
Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles From The World's Greatest Manufacturer
·
The
Toyota Way Fieldbook, Jeffrey Liker and David Meier (2005)
These
are classic texts on implementing lean.