Total Systems Development, Inc. (TSD) wrote Lean Manufacturing: A Plant Floor Guide, which is a comprehensive inventory of the ingredients required for successful implementation. It gives an outline of your initiative as well as a detailed justification behind it. It's a quick reference to parts of lean that you might not have known about. It's a virtual toolbox of knowledge that may be used right away on the factory floor. Editors John Allen, Charles Robinson, and David Stewart take readers on a comprehensive,'street-level' journey through lean implementation, from the seven wastes and flow processes to developing a business case, using lean tools, and applying readers' newfound knowledge at greenfield and brownfield sites. Specific chapters on value stream mapping and policy