For more information on Lean Manufacturing, please check out these websites:

• Advanced Manufacturing Magazine
  The site's Lean Manufacturing section includes several helpful downloadable articles.



• Association for Manufacturing Excellence
  Under "Concepts" you'll find a variety of definitions for Lean terms, and the "Best Practices" area contains practical tools, charts and working documents.



• Industry Week
  You'll start in the "Best Plants" section, which provides data on the best practices (many of which are Lean) of the top manufacturers in the country. Click back to the homepage to get updated articles from this leading manufacturing publication.



• Lean Directions
  The monthly newsletter published by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers includes articles on a wide variety of Lean concepts, with emphasis on training, implementation, and company experiences.



• Lean Enterprise Institute
  This organization's president is Jim Womack, internationally known leader in Lean Manufacturing. The "Community" section is particularly helpful, with documents in the "Lean Thinker's Corner" and "Library & Archives."



• Lean Enterprise Research Centre
  The "LERC publications" section of this site, from the Cardiff Business School, include several publications including a free downloadable "Going Lean - A Guide to Implementation."



• Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP)
  Check the locator map for your nearest MEP center in the country for assistance with Lean Manufacturing and many other performance issues. MAMTC is the MEP center for Colorado, Kansas and Wyoming.



• Manufacturing Management & Technology Institute
  The "news magazine searches" section contains articles on Lean Manufacturing, Kanban, Cellular Manufacturing, and 5S.



• Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing
  Consider downloading the guidelines for world-class manufacturing results.



• Superfactory
  20 different Lean areas are covered in the "Lean Concepts" section (under "Resources"), with recommendations for Internet links, books, articles, training and best practices.



• TPM On-Line
  This Lean Manufacturing site focuses mostly on Total Productive Maintenance, but also covers other Lean concepts.



• World Class Manufacturing Resources - Dr. Chao-Hsien Chu
  Site includes articles on 5S, visual control, JIT, and setup reduction.