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Discover how Toyota's powerful Lean principles can transform the world of healthcare. Toyota Healthcare: 7+1 Types of Waste explores how the proven concepts behind the Toyota Production System (TPS) can be applied to hospitals, clinics, and healthcare organizations to improve patient care, eliminate inefficiencies, and support frontline staff. Lean healthcare focuses on reducing waste, enhancing patient outcomes, and lowering operational costs. By engaging everyone—from physicians and nurses to administrative staff and executives—this approach seeks to remove anything that does not add ...

Gemba is a Japanese word meaning the actual place where value-creating work happens. Many leaders use gemba only for solving problems, visiting only when there is an issue. Others practice gemba walks on a daily basis to follow up and monitor the situation. However, Toyota believes that leaders truly develop through daily experiences at the gemba. In reality, gemba is a principle for managing, developing and improving people and processes. It is a valuable tool that helps lean practitioners learn the true facts so they can base management decisions on the actual situation.

Unlock the full potential of your projects with the power of Lean. In today's fast-paced world, traditional project management approaches often lead to waste, missed deadlines, and bloated budgets. Lean Project Management offers a smarter path—one that prioritizes value, eliminates inefficiencies, and empowers teams to deliver faster with fewer resources. This practical guide demystifies Lean thinking and shows how to apply its powerful principles to any project—whether you're in IT, construction, healthcare, marketing, or the nonprofit sector. With real-world case studies, hands-on ...

Why Do 70% of Lean Transformations Fail? And What Can You Do to Avoid Becoming One of Them? This book reveals the most overlooked reasons companies fail to achieve and sustain success with Lean—and more importantly, what to do instead. Whether you’re a CEO, improvement leader, or frontline manager, you'll discover: Why Lean is not just a toolkit, and how copying tools leads to failure The role of leadership behavior and culture in sustaining results How Toyota built Lean on deep human development, not quick fixes Practical steps to develop leaders, align teams, and embed improvement ...

Unlock the Future of Operational Excellence with the Power of AI + Lean Thinking In AI-Powered Lean, engineering expert and systems thinker Mohammed Hamed Ahmed Soliman delivers a groundbreaking guide to transforming traditional Lean practices using modern artificial intelligence. This book is your practical roadmap to faster results, smarter decisions, and scalable improvement. Whether you're in healthcare, government, education, or manufacturing, AI-Powered Lean helps you reimagine how value is created—and how waste is eliminated—with the aid of intelligent tools.What You’ll Learn: ...

Mastering CVT Transmissions is your complete guide to understanding, maintaining, and repairing modern continuously variable transmissions (CVTs). Written by Dr. Mohammed Hamed Ahmed Soliman, an international expert in Lean Maintenance, reliability, and automotive systems, this book combines deep technical knowledge with real-world experience. 📌 What you'll find inside: Clear explanations of how CVTs work, compared with manual, automatic, and dual-clutch (DCT) systems. Preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance practices to extend transmission life. Hands-on procedures for fluid ...

Master the full depth of the Toyota Production System (TPS) with this essential guidebook series—Books 7 to 17, bundled in one powerful collection. Designed for lean practitioners, managers, engineers, and students of operations excellence, this box set explores the foundational principles that transformed Toyota into the most efficient automaker in the world. Rooted in just-in-time (JIT) and jidoka (built-in quality), TPS is much more than a manufacturing tool—it’s a philosophy of continuous improvement, flow, and respect for people. This book set breaks down Toyota’s 13 core ...

🧠 Transform Your Company Culture—One Problem at a Time What separates successful lean organizations from the rest isn’t just tools or cost-cutting—it’s mindset, behavior, and daily habits. In this book, Lean expert Dr. Mohammed Hamed Ahmed Soliman introduces the Problem-Solving Kata, a structured way of thinking and acting that Toyota uses to create a culture of continuous improvement. This isn’t just a tool — it’s a leadership method for shaping behaviors, building capabilities, and driving long-term transformation. 🔍 In this practical guide, you will learn: What the ...

Operational Excellence isn't just for giants like Toyota. If you run a small business, you know how exhausting it can be to keep things running. Daily firefighting, unclear roles, repeated mistakes, and chaos are not signs of growth—they're signs of a broken system. This book brings the powerful principles of Operational Excellence down to earth. Designed specifically for small businesses, it offers simple, actionable strategies to help you: Build systems without suffocating flexibility Standardize without the bureaucracy Visualize your work and remove bottlenecks Empower your team to ...

An MBA-level toolkit in hours, not years. Business today moves fast — global, digital, and competitive. Traditional MBAs are valuable, but not everyone has the time or resources for two years of study. What professionals need instead is clarity, structure, and practical tools they can use immediately. The 500-Minute MBA is the capstone of Mohammed Hamed Ahmed Soliman’s acclaimed Mini-MBA Series. It brings together everything from the earlier books and expands your learning into 60 advanced, case-driven lessons across six key areas: Leadership & Coaching – Emotional intelligence, ...

Eliminate the Hidden Costs Dragging Your Business Down What if the biggest losses in your company weren’t in the balance sheet—but in everyday operations? This book reveals the Seven Deadly Wastes (Muda) defined in the legendary Toyota Production System (TPS)—and shows you how to find and eliminate them in any organization. Whether you work in manufacturing, logistics, services, or healthcare, these wastes silently kill productivity, profits, and morale. You’ll learn: What each of the seven wastes is costing your business How to detect hidden inefficiencies in your value stream ...

Just-in-Time Production: Unlocking the Secrets of Toyota’s Legendary Efficiency When people first heard of Toyota’s approach, “Just-in-Time” was misunderstood as a simple inventory reduction program. In reality, it is one of the core pillars of the Toyota Production System (TPS), designed to create one-piece flow, expose hidden problems, and eliminate waste across the entire value stream. Just-in-Time Production takes you behind the scenes of Toyota’s revolutionary system, showing how the company emerged stronger than competitors after the 1970 oil crisis and became a global ...

Kaizen is not just about fixing processes — it's about growing people. Continuous improvement, or Kaizen, means making small, steady changes to make things flow better, work smoother, and serve customers more effectively. At its core, it’s not just a method — it’s a mindset. Yet many organizations misunderstand PDCA — treating it as a mechanical cycle for process improvement, while ignoring the development of the people behind the process. In this powerful and insightful book, Dr. Mohamed H. Soliman shows how true Kaizen and PDCA must go hand in hand: improving the system and ...

From Hazard Prediction to Lean Safety Excellence in the Age of Industry 4.0 Workplace safety is no longer just about compliance—it's about prediction, prevention, and continuous improvement. In this ground-breaking book, Dr. Soliman, industrial engineering professor and author of over 100 books, explores how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming occupational health and safety. From computer vision detecting PPE violations, to predictive analytics forecasting risks, to digital twins simulating accident scenarios, this book shows how organizations can shift from reactive safety to ...

From a Lean Classic to a 2026 Digital Execution Guide In 2014, The Seven Deadly Wastes and How to Remove Them from Your Business introduced thousands of readers to MUDA and the foundations of Lean thinking with a focus on classical manufacturing and factory-floor efficiency. More than a decade later, the business world has changed completely. Remote work, digital platforms, artificial intelligence, fragile global supply chains, service-dominated economies, and post-COVID instability have created new forms of waste that traditional Lean models were never designed to detect. The Seven Deadly ...

Many people mistakenly view Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) as simply a process improvement cycle—ignoring the human element that makes it truly effective. While PDCA is designed to enhance processes, improving the workflow alone is not enough. Without developing and coaching your people, even the best process improvements are at risk of slipping back to old habits. True continuous improvement requires building a culture where employees understand, embrace, and manage the new methods. By training your team in the principles of PDCA, you ensure that improvements are sustained, knowledge is ...

Changeover—the process of switching a line or machine from producing one product to another—may seem routine, but it has a huge impact on efficiency, cost, and competitiveness. Every minute spent preparing machines, adjusting tools, or setting up for the next product is lost production time. During this period, equipment sits idle while labor costs continue, creating one of the most overlooked forms of waste in manufacturing. In industries such as automotive, electronics, and consumer goods, where frequent product variation is the norm, changeover speed determines flexibility and ...

To save money during the economic downturn, many businesses are using abstinence policies. This might mean firing employees and reducing pay for some people. Actually, those actions might only work for a little while. If the company doesn't make a culture of always getting better and change how it works, the problem might happen again and get even worse. This takes us back to the reason why the Toyota production system was created. Waste means something that takes up resources, but doesn't give anything back to the customer. Many activities are not useful and can be divided into two ...

The purpose of this book is to present a set of guidelines to be used in the application of lean strategy principles and tools in modern organizations. This book aim is to highlight the potential role played by lean strategy tools for strategic planning and strategic management in the reference to the Hoshin Kanri policy deployment system. This book discusses several themes driven and concluded from Toyota that are required to deploy strategies and align goals. The book highlights the potential for the Hoshin Kanri deployment process in manufacturing environments. It emphasizes the ...

What if working less is the smartest thing you can do? In The Lazy Engineer, Mohammed Hamed Ahmed Soliman — engineer, educator, and productivity strategist — reveals how to How to Solve Complex Problems with Minimal Effort by applying industrial and systems thinking to your personal and professional life. This is not a book about being idle. It's about being efficient, intentional, and strategic — just like great engineers are trained to be. 🔹 Learn how to "engineer" your tasks to reduce wasted time and effort 🔹 Apply Lean Thinking, flow, and constraints theory to everyday ...