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Among the recipients of the 2003 Shingo Prize in Manufacturing Excellence were M.L. Bob Emiliani, David J. Stec, Lawrence P. Grasso, and James P. Stodder for their book Better Thinking, Better Results: Using the Power of Lean as a Total Business Solution. The book detailed the findings of a nine-year study of the Wiremold Company in West Hartford, Connecticut.  The honor recognizes and promotes research and technical writing on manufacturing that is consistent with the philosophy that world-class performance may be achieved through focused improvements in core manufacturing and business processes. It is administered by Utah State University’s College of Business. All the 2003 research recipients are listed below.

2003 Recipients - Books

Better Thinking, Better Results: Using the Power of Lean as a Total Business Solution
by Bob Emiliani with David Stec, Lawrence Grasso and James Stodder

This is the first book to document an actual company's Lean transformation over a ten-year period. It presents, in detail, what The Wiremold Company did to achieve its transformation and their amazing results, both financial and non-financial. The book vividly shows how Wiremold applied Lean principles and practices to the entire enterprise and throughout the value stream. Wiremold achieved outstanding success in a short period of time by using Lean as a comprehensive management system, rather than as a group of tools. The leadership lessons are invaluable for anyone involved with making the Lean management system come alive in their company.

 Creating Continuous Flow: An Action Guide for Managers, Engineers and Production Associates
by Mike Rother and Rick Harris

Creating Continuous Flow explains how to create efficient and effective operator-based cells and lines. Unlike previous books that describe what makes a good cell, Creating Continuous Flow is a workbook that shows the reader step-by-step how to get there. Creating Continuous Flow is the logical follow-up to Learning to See, the earlier LEI workbook that explained how to use value stream mapping. Value stream mapping is a
tool that helps managers and engineers see broadly across multiple processes in order to decide where to focus deeply on creating flow. Creating Continuous Flow explains how to make those processes flow the way they should.

Seeing the Whole: Mapping the Extended Value Stream
by Dan Jones and Jim Womack

In Seeing the Whole, Daniel T. Jones and James P. Womack expand value stream mapping's field of view from the individual facility to the entire value stream from order to delivery across multiple facilities and companies Using a macro value stream map, a new breakthrough tool for improving extended value streams, Jones and Womack demonstrate how 90 percent of the actions and 99 percent of the time along a typical value stream can consume resources, but create no value for customers. More importantly, the Seeing the Whole workbook gives managers a practical step-by-step
methodology for fixing the problem. The workbook illustrates the mapping process with a sample product moving through eight separate facilities and four companies in two countries, starting at a finished goods distribution center and moving upstream through manufacturing and raw material businesses.

Classic Edition
 

Henry Ford: Today and Tomorrow -- Commemorative Edition of Ford's 1926 Classic
by Henry Ford

Authored by the world's most famous automaker, this classic reveals the thinking that changed the industry forever. First published in 1926 and long out of print, the book had been largely forgotten. Yet Ford's ideas have never stopped having an impact; even Taiichi Ohno acknowledged that a key stimulus to JIT was his close reading of this book.

In Today and Tomorrow’s 24 chapters, Ford discusses topics just as relevant today as they were in 1926, at the height of his success, including: Money, power and big business; work standards, time and motion; learning from waste; wages, hours and employee motivation, and the power of education.

While our fascination with contemporary business leaders continues, Henry Ford deserves a fresh look. Here is the man who doubled wages, cut the price of a car in half and produced over two million units a year.

The 2003 printing features a new introduction by James J. Padilla, Executive Vice President and President, Ford North America, and an enhanced selection of photos illustrating the processes and facilities Ford covers in the text. An updated chronology of the Ford Motor Company is also included.

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