Product Description

The 20 Keys system brings together twenty of the world's top manufacturing improvement approaches and integrates them into a system for revolutionizing your manufacturing organization. This revised edition of Kobayashi's best seller amplifies the synergistic power of raising the levels of all these critical areas simultaneously. Includes new material, updated layout, valuable case studies, and upgraded scoring criteria. Discover how you can leverage improvements to develop a less expensive, faster, safer system for producing a higher quality product. The techniques shared in this book will position your organization to adapt quickly to changing customer needs. Use it with your entire management team to start making company wide improvements now. This book amplifies the synergistic power of raising the levels of all these critical areas simultaneously. This edition presents upgraded criteria for the five-level scoring system in most of the 20 Keys, supporting your progress toward becoming not only best in your industry, but in the world. (Also available in Spanish - call for details)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #207012 in Books
• Published on: 1995-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 312 pages

Review
"Use this well-written book as your main guide to lean production. By mastering the 20 Keys a company can reach greatness. In today's competitive global environment, applying the 20 Keys is a vital undertaking and a major step toward evolving into a lean enterprise."

From the Back Cover

20 Keys has helped many manufacturing companies integrate the top manufacturing improvement methods into a coordinated system for drastic and continual improvement in involvement, quality, and productivity. This program provides the strategies necessary to achieve ambitious goals through a five-level scoring system.

The revised edition is improved with upgraded criteria for the five-level scoring system to guide your company to world-class status. New material and updated layout make implementation even easier. Two valuable case studies demonstrate effective use by both a Japanese company and an American manufacturer.

Customer Reviews

this is the world class journey!
This is probably the finest book of the world class journey ever written, not in theory, but the things we have to do to keep on the journey. Prof Kobayashi brings to light the 20 different skills in a broad perspective that any organization can use effectively to make the journey possible. To truly understand the subtle secrets you will eventually read this book 20 times. You will be so inspired by the graphics you will go to Japan to find the deep rooted meanings of the content, as the processes behind them (2o keys) are a culture in their own right! Enjoy your personal world class journey by starting with yourself!!!

Roadmap to Success
This book is full of wisdom and common sense.
It describes clearly andconcisely each of the twenty strands which, when taken together, will giveany kind of business
a framework within which to plan and monitor itscontinuous improvement.
Be aware, though, that this is very much a bookwhich describes what the twenty keys are, rather than a prescription forhow to go about implementing the programme.