The New and Improved Lean Pocket Guide (with over 50 links to Lean worksheets‪)‬

The most comprehensive and practical explanation of Lean concepts and tools made for the shop floor is now available with all the necessary Excel worksheets for you to implement the tools and concepts easier and faster than ever before. The New and Improved Lean Pocket Guide (Revised Edition 2017) has over 150 illustrations to visually convey the tools and concepts, along with detailed descriptions of all the Lean tools as well as over 50 Lean worksheets via a Dropbox file link .


The tools of 5S, 5 Whys, A3 Project Report and Lean Thinking, Brainstorming, Buffer and Safety Stock, Cause and Effect (or Fishbone) Diagram, Cellular Layout, Charting, Continuous Flow, Cycle Time, Flow, Gemba Walks, Heijunka, Impact Map, Implementation Tools and Strategies, Interrelationship Diagram, Jikoka, Just-In-Time, Kanban, Kaizen Workshops (or Events), Layered Process Audits, Lean Communications, Lean Metrics, Lean Office (Paper File System), Line Balancing, Measurement System Analysis, Managing Change, Mistake Proofing, Origins of Lean, Stakeholder Analysis, Process Capability, Paced Withdrawal, PDCA, Perishable Tool Management, Pitch, PQPR Analysis, Problem Solving, Quick Changeover, Runner, Six Sigma, Standard Work, Statistical Process Control, Standard Work for Leaders, Storyboard, Takt Time, Three Stages of Lean Implementation, Visual Management, Value Stream Management, Value Stream Mapping, Visual Controls, and Waste Walk. 


The Dropbox file links are to the following worksheets: Sort Inspection Sheet, 5S Item Disposition Log, Sort SOP, Criteria Checklist for Set-In-Order, Set-In-Order SOP, Criteria Checklist for Shine, Shine SOP, Control Point Worksheet, Gemba Walk, Standardize SOP, 5S Audit Form, Sustain SOP, VA versus NVA Analysis, Kaizen Event Preparation Schedule 1 and 2, Kaizen Event Scorecard, Team Charter, Meeting Information Form, Status Report, Yokoten Worksheet, Value Added Reporting Log, Standard Work Combination Table, Standard Work Chart, Storyboard Worksheet, Waste Audit, plus additional useful ones. 


Don't go Lean without these!