Speed to Market
Lean Manufacturing for Job Shops

ORDER HERE

Contrary to the common belief that lead time is largely a manufacturing issue, the race to win orders begins when a customer's need is discovered and ends when they have the merchandise in hand.  The clock is running during every activity that occurs in between.

Speed to Market not only proves that the reduction of lead time immediately and substantially increases profits, it also shows clearly how to cut process time at every stage while keeping your shop running at full capacity.  And just as important, the book explains the costly pitfalls of applying traditional big-company "lean manufacturing" tenets to smaller operations like job shops.

AMACOM
American Management Association

This book illustrates differences between job shops/order driven businesses vs. mass production or volume operations. The emphasis is on how lean manufacturing must be modified to work in a job shop. The strategy for improvement is to cut lead-time as opposed to reduce inventories.

The book includes a new horizontal management paradigm for job shops, how to use a non-bureaucratic continuous improvement system, and the Theory of Delays, all of which are necessary elements in any organized approach for improving performance and profitability in these kinds of businesses.

Nationally known expert Vincent Bozzone, president of Delta Dynamics Incorporated, is the author of Speed to Market: Lean Manufacturing for Job Shops.  He is an MBA graduate of Columbia University, and a former job shop owner who has worked with more than 400 companies in virtually every major industry.