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All I Need to Know About Manufacturing I Learned in Joe's Garage
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by: William B. Miller
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Book Description
World Class Manufacturing Made Simple explains basic principles behind rapid service, high quality, low cost business management. This international bestseller is endorsed by reviewers from Business Week and other publications, and by business leaders such as Bob Lutz (author of Guts, former president of Chrysler Corporation).
...JOE'S GARAGE is used by thousands of companies, large and small throughout the world, to improve profitability, performance, and employee satisfaction. The book uses a lighthearted short story that explains in easily understandable terms the concepts and techniques of 21st-century business management. It illustrates clearly how to forge a strategy for the future that will lead to outstanding personal and professional achievement.
...JOE'S GARAGE is a classic teaching fable valuable in all business functions. It is essential reading for anybody who wishes to understand how to succeed in today's environment of increasingly tough global competition. An annotated reading list and comprehensive glossary are provided.
Countless business leaders, educators, and publications agree that ...JOE's GARAGE is simply the best, and most cost-effective, roadmap for attainment of world class results.
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All I Need To Know About Manufacturing I Learned In Joe's Garage has earned THIRTY-TWO MAJOR ENDORSEMENTS! See below what educational and media figures, including a Business Week correspondent, say about ...Joe's Garage. Then read the praise from Bob Lutz (author of Guts: The Seven Laws of Business) and other leading executives in numerous industries: electronics, consumer products, industrial products, medical products, aerospace, and motor vehicles.
MEDIA AND EDUCATORS
"A quick intro to concepts of advanced production, in an easy-to-read format." by Jim Treece, Senior Correspondent, Business Week
"Simplest explanation of what it takes to achieve manufacturing excellence." by Training and Development
"Easy-reading book that will give you a quick education." by Design News
"Illustrates the principles of 21st-century manufacturing." by Quality Progress
"Teaches the basics of TQM and JIT in 45 minutes." by APICS
ELECTRONICS
"Must reading for anybody manufacturing anything." by Bill Jasper, President, Dolby
"Easy read that makes a dynamic impact." by Bill DeMalia, Quality Manager, Solectron
"Easy-to-read instant training on manufacturing." by Crista Hambleton, Sales Manager, Unisys
CONSUMER PRODUCTS
"Insightful - magic - easily understood and retained." by Mary Osmolski, Director, Stanley Production System, Stanley Works
"Easy-reading book that gets the point across about JIT, lower inventories, and other aspects of agile manufacturing." by David Gardner, Director of Production, Maytag
"Refocused our organization on fundamentals of World Class Manufacturing." by Dale Philippi, Vice President, Eureka
"Teaches the Toyota Production System in a simple manner." by Rocco Losito, Corp. Director of Quality, LA-Z-BOY
"Innovative and interesting." by Michael Naylor, Senior Vice President, Operations, Rubbermaid
INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS
"Excellent. Universally applicable to all manufacturing processes." by Robert A. Lutz, Vice Chairman, General Motors
"Wraps up more lessons in a one-hour read than all the high-priced seminars you could attend." by John Guffey, Chief Executive Officer, Coltec
"Explains the basic principles of modern manufacturing management." by Scott Gibson, Vice President, Manufacturing and Engineering, Castrol
"Great overview of World Class Manufacturing processes and techniques." by Jack Murrell, Vice President, ITT Defense and Electronics
MEDICAL PRODUCTS
"Really helped change the thinking in our manufacturing organization." by Mike Eagle, Vice President, Manufacturing, Eli Lilly
"Perfect educational tool for production, sales, engineering - everybody!" by Jack Farnandez, Director of Operations, Advanced Cardiovascular Systems
AEROSPACE
"A short course in lean thinking, told in reader-friendly style." by Donald E. Westerheide, Vice President, Lockheed Martin
"Provides a great understanding of World Class Manufacturing as a strategic weapon." by John R. Black, Director, World Class Company Studies, Boeing Commercial Airplane Group
"Creates retained understanding of huge impact of creating and manufacturing a cost effective, quality product." by Ronald F. McKenna, Chief Operating Officer, Aerospace, Sundstrand
"A great easy reader - facilitates understanding of Lean Manufacturing concepts - highly recommended!" by Jon Enwiller, Lean Manufacturing Manager, AlliedSignal Aerospace
"Short, to the point, and easy to read; I like the book very much." by Stan Biga, Chief, Resource Development, Sikorsky Aircraft
"All the key issues we face today in readable, concise and understandable form." by James D. Lang, Director of Technology, New Aircraft and Missile Products, McDonnell Douglas Aerospace
MOTOR VEHICLES
"Simplest, most effective and still entertaining book I've read on principles of effective manufacturing." by Bill Shillingford, Plant Manager, Ford
"An entertaining yet insightful look at an entire manufacturing process all the way from the design phase to ultimate customer delivery." by Harry Lewis, Vice President, Chrysler
"A story that includes all the lessons to become a world class manufacturing facility." by Don Makie, Executive Vice President, Cambridge Industries
"Best overall explanation of the Toyota Production System." by Tom Faust, Vice President GROWTTH, Freudenberg-NOK
"Excellent lesson in modern manufacturing systems for ALL employees." by Mervin Dunn, General Manager, Arvin Ride Control
Reviews:
This book had the potential to be a great instructive book. Its main problem is that it stopped short of attaining this goal. Coming as it does on the verge of the third decade of America's realization that the American Production System is not the ultimate manufacturing system it highlighted manufacturing problems, but not their solutions. The idea behind the book was excellent. Building a neighborhood project within a close neighborhood highlighted problems with the common American Mfg. system. It allowed one to easily attain the concept and the Japanese catch-word that defines the solution. If you want a book that will help you relate catch-words this is it. If you are interested in a solution, search elsewhere. It needs a little further development on the reverse side of the coin. Such as the following week the group should have had a project at Ralph's or Sato's garage and with the same style demonstrate how the project should have been handled. I did not like this book because it is only one side of the story. It offers nothing on the problem solving or "How to" side of manufacturing.
The book is a short novel that contrasts the batch and queue production system with the lean one, by means of the "socratic" discussion that the main two characters have working a week-end in the Joe's garage. By the way, the Joe in the title is the batch and queue old fashioned foreman, not one of the main characters. I found it very useful as a basic book on the lean production subject, and got the best when I re-read the book after a while after having gained a better understanding of lean. The book is short enough to allow a second
This book is a situational review of a back yard application of manufacturting. If you know NOTHING about manufacturing, this book is a great intro. If you are looking for a more detailed introduction to Scheduling, Work Centers, Routing, Materials Management, Bills of Material, Inventory, and Demand Planning, this book is a complete waste of your time.
OK, this book was mandatory reading for our department. It was supposed to enlighten us into the world of lean manufacturing. Instead, it simply painted a distorted picture of one manufacturing philosophy and how it was better than another. The stage was set early when the character "Joe" was made out to be a difficult boss, someone not sophisticated and rough. This slanted the reading from comparing processes to comparing personalities. In addition, assumptions were made that employees in Ralph's company had the ability to improve their manufacturing processes on the fly (page 18). Supposedly this was a good thing, but it never referenced how to go about doing this and fitting into an ISO environment or how much paperwork that would have involved. In any event this book should not be taken very seriously. It is a story with little substance that raises two significant points. The first is if George Washington screamed when Joe squeezed a nickel....what happened to Thomas Jefferson must have been really bad.(Page 14) And if Joe actually got 20 people to show up to his house on a Saturday to help him build shelves in his garage....shouldn't he really be in sales?
Simple and fun to read, but full of real ideas. The author gets away from the "janglish" of poka-yoke, TPS, kanban, and lays it all out in plain English through a fictional account of building shelves in Joe's garage. Joe is kind of a...boss, who "volunteers" his workers to build shelves in his garage over a weekend. Each fundamental of modern lean manufacturing is covered through the trials and tribulations of the people trying to get the project done. A good book to distribute to supervisors and shop floor leaders.