下列书籍和文章对了解精益思想和精益技术有特殊的帮助。
Arnold,Horace,and Fay Faurote. Ford Methods and the Ford Shops,North Stratford,N.H.:Ayer,1998(a reprint of the Engineering Magazine edition of 1915).
Case,John. Open Book Management.New York:Harper Business,1995.
Clark,Kim,and Takahiro Fujimoto. Product Development Performance.Boston:Harvard Business School Press,1991.
Clausing,Don. Total Quality Development:A Step-by-Step Guide to World-Class Concurrent Engineering.New York:American Society of Mechanical Engineers Press,1994.
Cooper,Robin. When Lean,Enterprises Collide:Competing Through Confrontation.Boston:Harvard Business School Press,1995.
Csikzentmihalyi,Mihaly. Flow:The Psychology of Optimal Experience.New York:Harper Perennial,1990.
——. The Evolving Self:A Psychology for the Third Millennium.New York:Harper Perennial,1993.
Cusumano,Michael. The Japanese Automobile Industry:Technology and Management at Nissan and Toyota.Cambridge,Mass:Harvard University Press,1985.
Fujimoto,Takahiro. The Evolution of a Manufacturing System at Toyota.New York:Oxford University Press,1999.
Gleick,James. Chaos:Making a New Science.New York:Viking,1987.
Jones,Dan,and Jim Womack. Seeing the Whole:Mapping the Extended Value Stream.Brookline,Mass.:Lean Enterprise Institute,2002.
Philip Hauser and Don Clausing,“The House of Quality,”,Harvard Business Review,Vol. 66,No.3,May-June 1988,pp.63-73.
Hines,Peter. Creating World-Class Suppliers.London:Pitman,1994.
Hounshell,David. From the American System to Mass Production,1800-1932.Baltimore:Johns Hopkins University Press,1984(revised,expanded,and reissued,1995).
Hurst,David. Crisis and Renewal.Boston:Harvard Business School Press,1995.
Kurogane,Kenji,ed.,Cross-Functional Management:Principles and Practical Applications.Tokyo:Asian Productivity Organization,1993.
Lamming,Richard. Beyond Partnership:Strategies for Innovation and Lean Supply.New York:Prentice-Hall,1993.
Mather,Hal. Competitive Manufacturing.New York:Prentice-Hall,1991.
Monden,Yasuhiro. The Toyota Production System.Atlanta:Institute of Industrial Engineers,1983.
——. Cost Reduction Systems:Target Costing and Kaizen Costing.Portland,Ore.:Productivity Press,1995.
Nishiguchi,Toshihiro. Strategic Industrial Sourcing:The Japanese Advantage.Oxford:Oxford University Press,1994.
Ohno,Taiichi. The Toyota Production System:Beyond Large-Scale Production.Portland,Oregon:Productivity Press,1988.
——. Workplace Management.Portland,Oregon:Productivity Press,1988.
Rother,Mike,and Rick Harris. Creating Continuous Flow.Brookline,Mass.:Lean En-terprise Institute,2001.
Rother,Mike,and John Shook. Learning to See.Brookline,Mass.:Lean Enterprise Institute,1998.
Schonberger,Richard J. Japanese Manufacturing Techniques.New York:Free Press,1982.
——. World Class Manufacturing:The Lessons of Simplicity Applied.New York:Free Press,1986.
——. World Class Monufacturing:The Next Decade.New York:Free Press,1996.
——. Let's Fix It.New York:Free Press,2001.
Sewell,Carl and Paul B. Brown.Customers for Life.New York:Pocket Books,1991.
Shingo,Shigeo. A Study of the Toyota Production System from an Industrial Engineering Viewpoint.Portland,Oregon:Productivity Press,1989.
Stack,Jack. The Great Game of Business.New York:Harper Business,1993.
Suzaki,Kiyoshi. The New Manufacturing Challenge.New York:Free Press,1987.
——. The New Shopfloor Management.New York:Free Press,1993.
Toyota Motor Corporation. The Toyota Production System.Operations Management Consulting Division and International Public Affairs Division.Toyota City:Toyota Motor Corporation,1995.
——. Toyota:A History of the First 50 Years.Toyota City:Toyota Motor Corporation,1988.
Womack,James P.,and Daniel T. Jones.How the World Has Changed Since The Machine That Changed the World.Brookline,Mass.,Lean Enterprise Institute,2000.