Lean Design - Reviews for Lean Design Guidebook, by Ron Mascitelli

The Lean Design Guidebook:
     Everything Your Product Development Team
          Needs to Slash Manufacturing Cost
               by Ronald Mascitelli

ISBN: 0-9662697-2-1, Price: $44.95
Publication Date: May 2004
320 Pages, Double Spiral Bound, 8.5” x 11”

Midwest Book Review
August 10, 2004 (Amazon.com Rating - Five Stars)

The Lean Design Guidebook: Everything Your Product Development Team Needs To Slash Manufacturing Cost by project management expert and consultant Ronald Mascitelli is a spiral-bound guide presenting eighteen practical tools for reducing manufacturing costs. From Six-Sigma Design to Value Engineering, Toyota's Production Preparation Process (3P), and much more, The Lean Design Guidebook presents metrics and tested methods for reducing waste, extensive checklists, step-by-step instructions, and much more. An expert compendium of solid advice.

Quality Management Journal
Volume 11, No. 4, October 2004

"The Lean Design Guidebook is a well-crafted document that adds value by bringing together 17 tools in a coherent fashion to control cost during the design process and beyond. Mascitelli does an excellent job of explaining how and when to apply each tool. While the tools are not new, the sequence in which Mascitelli applies them is unique."

APICS - The Performance Advantage
November / December Issue 2004

"The Lean Design Guidebook serves as a guide, providing practitioners with tools and methods that can be implemented and used at an individual level or by an entire team to streamline and improve the design process. Throughout the book, the reader finds practical examples, worksheets, templates, and forms necessary for implementing or maintaining an effective product-design process.
"The book is written in a friendly, professional style with plenty of interesting asides and encouragement by the author. It is written as if a knowledgeable professional was standing beside you to guide you through the design process. It's not too formal or academic. The Lean Design Guidebook will help you and your organization become more adept at the design process in general."

Manufacturer's Alliance
December 2004 / January 2005

"A useful guidebook should provide: structured processes that can be followed by most folks in the firm, broad coverage of a wide range of situations, and details necessary to achieve the desired end result. The Lean Design Guidebook provides all of this and a bit more besides. The book is very well organized with lots of charts, forms and a clear explanation of how to approach each phase of the improvement process."