Lean Design - Books and Videos

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”

The Lean Design Guidebook describes eighteen powerful and practical
tools for product development teams that enable dramatic manufacturing cost reduction. The emphasis is on team activities that can create breakthroughs in material, labor, and overhead cost, while maintaining the highest quality and value for customers. An integrated approach to the application of these waste-eliminating tools is described, along with proven methods for training and deployment within a single team, or an entire organization. This is a highly readable book for practitioners in all fields related to product design and development, including design team members, team leaders, managers, and organizational improvement champions. The book makes extensive use of graphics (over 150 figures and diagrams) and is rich with real-world examples and step-by-step descriptions. A bibliography, a comprehensive glossary, and an index are provided.

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Building a Project-Driven Enterprise:
     How to Slash Waste and Boost Profits Through
          Lean Project Management
               by Ronald Mascitelli

ISBN: 0-9662697-1-3, Price: $39.95
Publication Date: April 2002
368 Pages, Hardcover, 6” x 9”

Building a Project-Driven Enterprise describes breakthrough methods for eliminating non-value-added waste from any project. Whether your team’s objective is to implement a new software application, build a skyscraper, or develop a new product line, the powerful techniques of Lean Product Development and Lean Project Management will pay enormous dividends. These practical, commonsense work methods are presented in a style that is light and to-the-point. The goal is to enable you to apply these tools the very next day to begin saving time and boosting profits. Loaded with tips, real-world examples, templates, and illustrations, this book will be your most valuable asset in achieving project efficiency and excellence.

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The Lean Design Video:
     Powerful Tools to Help Your Product Development
          Team Slash Manufacturing Cost
               Presented by Ronald Mascitelli

Price: $295
Release Date: May 2004
2 hours 20 min., CD-Based Multimedia Presentation, Web Formatted
(Requires Microsoft Internet Explorer or equivalent for viewing)

The Lean Design Video utilizes a powerful multimedia format that simultaneously displays PowerPoint slides and a synchronized audio /video presentation. In this seventy-minute program, Ron Mascitelli explains several of the most powerful lean design tools from The Lean Design Guidebook. This fast-paced, graphics-rich learning tool is an excellent way for you to share practical methods for product cost reduction with a single team, or an entire organization. The format used can be easily e-mailed to a large distribution list, and viewed on any computer that is Web-enabled. An excellent way to kick off a new and important design project!

The Lean Product Development Video:
     Powerful Tools to Help Your Product Development
          Team Slash Time-to-Market
               Presented by Ronald Mascitelli

Price: $295
Release Date: May 2004
2 hours, CD-Based Multimedia Presentation, Web Formatted
(Requires Microsoft Internet Explorer or equivalent for viewing)

The Lean Product Development Video utilizes a powerful multimedia format that simultaneously displays PowerPoint slides and a synchronized audio /video presentation. In this seventy-minute program, Ron Mascitelli explains several of the most powerful time-saving, waste-slashing methods from Building a Project-Driven Enterprise, and the forthcoming Lean Product Development Guidebook. This fast-paced, graphics-rich learning tool is an excellent way for you to share practical methods for dramatically reducing time-to-market with a single team, or an entire organization. The format used can be easily e-mailed to a large distribution list, and viewed on any computer that is Web-enabled. An excellent way to kick off a new and important design project!

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The Lean Product Development Guidebook:
Everything Your DesignTeam Needs to Improve Efficiency and Slash Time-to-Market
by Ronald Mascitelli

ISBN-978-0-9662697-3-4, Price: $44.95
Publication Date: January 2007
320 Pages, Double Spiral Bound, 8.5” x 11”

Learn how the world’s most efficient firms design better products faster. The Lean Product Development Guidebook describes an integrated approach to low-waste, high-efficiency new product development. Over two dozen powerful and practical methods for slashing waste and improving resource utilization are presented, spanning the full spectrum from inception to successful product launch. This book includes over 150 figures and diagrams, and is rich with real-world examples and step-by-step instructions. An integrated and immediately deployable approach to maximizing speed and profitability.

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Order your copy of The Lean Product Development Guidebook through this website and receive a 20% discount off of cover price, or a 50% discount for quantities of 5 or more.