As a TPM expert, Dennis has pioneered the integration of TPM with Lean and Six Sigma improvement processes as a lever for cross functional collaboration and high performance teamwork. Described by one senior international manager as a true 'Sensei of Change', he has supported many well-respected and award winning companies including 3M, Ford, General Motors, GE, IKEA, Heineken and Johnson Matthey across Europe, India, USA, China and Japan. Professor Rich is a renowned academic and expert in productivity management and the application of lean enterprise methods. With Professor Dan Jones, he was a founding member of the Lean Enterprise Research Centre in 1994 and he now directs CLEAR – the Centre for Lean Enterprise Application and Research. Nick was trained by Toyota in Japan during the 1990s whilst at Cardiff Business School, he has co-authored several government reports, holds a number of honorary Professorships at UK and international Universities, and is highly regarded as an academic who can translate his research into practice. His research concerns the design and improvement of Highly Reliable Organisations and he spends his time split between manufacturing, service, and healthcare sectors.

"Very easy to read." --Tony Flannigan, Site Manager, ICI Synetix"strong in developing lean TPM arguments at the micro level and offers directions at the macro supply-chain level." --Gurdev Singh MILT, Logistics and Transport Focus, 2004"Overall, the text is suited to those with a basic understanding of these two practices within a manufacturing setting who also enjoy a full and sustained management support to drive effective change in an organization." --Quality Progress, February 2005

• Chapter One: The business of survival and growthChapter Two: Lean TPMChapter Three: The change mandate: A top-down/bottom-up partnershipChapter Four: Transforming the business modelChapter Five: Process stabilisationChapter Six: Process optimisationChapter Seven: Sustaining the improvement driveChapter Eight: ConclusionsIndex

As a TPM expert, Dennis has pioneered the integration of TPM with Lean and Six Sigma improvement processes as a lever for cross functional collaboration and high performance teamwork. Described by one senior international manager as a true 'Sensei of Change', he has supported many well-respected and award winning companies including 3M, Ford, General Motors, GE, IKEA, Heineken and Johnson Matthey across Europe, India, USA, China and Japan. Professor Rich is a renowned academic and expert in productivity management and the application of lean enterprise methods. With Professor Dan Jones, he was a founding member of the Lean Enterprise Research Centre in 1994 and he now directs CLEAR – the Centre for Lean Enterprise Application and Research. Nick was trained by Toyota in Japan during the 1990s whilst at Cardiff Business School, he has co-authored several government reports, holds a number of honorary Professorships at UK and international Universities, and is highly regarded as an academic who can translate his research into practice. His research concerns the design and improvement of Highly Reliable Organisations and he spends his time split between manufacturing, service, and healthcare sectors.

"Very easy to read." --Tony Flannigan, Site Manager, ICI Synetix"strong in developing lean TPM arguments at the micro level and offers directions at the macro supply-chain level." --Gurdev Singh MILT, Logistics and Transport Focus, 2004"Overall, the text is suited to those with a basic understanding of these two practices within a manufacturing setting who also enjoy a full and sustained management support to drive effective change in an organization." --Quality Progress, February 2005

• Chapter One: The business of survival and growthChapter Two: Lean TPMChapter Three: The change mandate: A top-down/bottom-up partnershipChapter Four: Transforming the business modelChapter Five: Process stabilisationChapter Six: Process optimisationChapter Seven: Sustaining the improvement driveChapter Eight: ConclusionsIndex

As a TPM expert, Dennis has pioneered the integration of TPM with Lean and Six Sigma improvement processes as a lever for cross functional collaboration and high performance teamwork. Described by one senior international manager as a true 'Sensei of Change', he has supported many well-respected and award winning companies including 3M, Ford, General Motors, GE, IKEA, Heineken and Johnson Matthey across Europe, India, USA, China and Japan. Professor Rich is a renowned academic and expert in productivity management and the application of lean enterprise methods. With Professor Dan Jones, he was a founding member of the Lean Enterprise Research Centre in 1994 and he now directs CLEAR – the Centre for Lean Enterprise Application and Research. Nick was trained by Toyota in Japan during the 1990s whilst at Cardiff Business School, he has co-authored several government reports, holds a number of honorary Professorships at UK and international Universities, and is highly regarded as an academic who can translate his research into practice. His research concerns the design and improvement of Highly Reliable Organisations and he spends his time split between manufacturing, service, and healthcare sectors.

"Very easy to read." --Tony Flannigan, Site Manager, ICI Synetix"strong in developing lean TPM arguments at the micro level and offers directions at the macro supply-chain level." --Gurdev Singh MILT, Logistics and Transport Focus, 2004"Overall, the text is suited to those with a basic understanding of these two practices within a manufacturing setting who also enjoy a full and sustained management support to drive effective change in an organization." --Quality Progress, February 2005

• Chapter One: The business of survival and growthChapter Two: Lean TPMChapter Three: The change mandate: A top-down/bottom-up partnershipChapter Four: Transforming the business modelChapter Five: Process stabilisationChapter Six: Process optimisationChapter Seven: Sustaining the improvement driveChapter Eight: ConclusionsIndex