Production System

From looms to lean: how Toyota rewired manufacturing—and what you can apply today. A Brief History of the Toyota Production System is a fast, visual guide to the ideas that transformed a small Japanese loom works into one of the world’s most consistently profitable automakers. In under two hours of reading you’ll see how Sakichi Toyoda’s stop-the-loom insight evolved—through Kiichiro Toyoda and Taiichi Ohno—into the full Toyota Production System (TPS): a socio-technical approach that marries quality, flow, and respect for people. Inside you’ll learn: The TPS “House”: goals...

Simone knows if she plays with fire, she runs the risk of getting burned, but she just can't help herself. Living large off the paternity scam of a lifetime, she has two baby daddies cashing her out for her infant son. Even her own best friends are getting tired of her low-down, manipulative ways. Unfortunately, the streets begin to talk, and the out-for-self mother's luck taps out.

Machine learning systems are both complex and unique. Complex because they consist of many different components and involve many different stakeholders. Unique because they're data dependent, with data varying wildly from one use case to the next. In this book, you'll learn a holistic approach to designing ML systems that are reliable, scalable, maintainable, and adaptive to changing environments and business requirements. Author Chip Huyen, cofounder of Claypot AI, considers each design decision in the context of how it can help your system as a whole achieve its objectives.

Learn a road map to healthy soil and revitalized food systems for powerfully addressing these times of challenge. This audiobook equips producers with knowledge, skills, and insights to regenerate ecosystem health and grow farm/ranch profits. Globally recognized soil advocate and agroecologist Nicole Masters delivers the solution to rewind the clock on this increasingly critical soil crisis in her first book For the Love of Soil. She argues we can no longer treat soil like dirt.

If you want to be faster, stronger, and less prone to injury, it’s critical you understand how important the body’s fascia system is to athletic performance. Modern research and imaging technologies are showing us that it’s far more significant than we have long understood. That’s why Bill Parisi—founder of the Parisi Speed School—and extreme sports writer, Johnathon Allen, set out on a nationwide quest to interview the top experts in the field so they could present this new performance science in a paradigm shifting book that’s not only packed with practical information, but ...

Most AI developers struggle with the limitations of single large language models trying to do everything. The breakthrough isn't bigger models—it's multi-agent orchestration. Multi-Agent AI Systems: Build Highly Skillful AI Agents with CrewAI, LangGraph & AutoGen shows you how specialized AI agents working together outperform any monolithic system. This practical guide teaches you to build production-ready agent teams using the three most powerful frameworks transforming AI development. Master Three Revolutionary Frameworks: • CrewAI - Role-based agent coordination with hierarchical ...

In this collection of essays and articles, key members of Google’s Site Reliability Team explain how and why their commitment to the entire lifecycle has enabled the company to successfully build, deploy, monitor, and maintain some of the largest software systems in the world. You’ll learn the principles and practices that enable Google engineers to make systems more scalable, reliable, and efficient - lessons directly applicable to your organization.

Poka-yoke is a Japanese word that means "error-proofing". It involves using simple and cheap tools to help workers avoid making mistakes in their work. These devices prevent errors like using the wrong parts, forgetting to put in a part, or installing a part the wrong way. In simpler words, in Japanese, "poka" means making a mistake by accident, and "yoke" means stopping or avoiding the mistake. Have you ever wondered why Japanese cars are known for being reliable. Even cars that are 20 years old can still run well and keep up with the newest and top cars in the automobile industry. This is...

Leaders on projects should be the chief people officers (CPO) of their teams. This position does a less physical work and more mentoring of others doing the work. In fact, while most entry level positions execute work, senior leaders lead, organize, and build teams. This book is about building remarkable teams that build remarkable projects. To do this, you must have three key things: a multiplier leader, a strong team, and a strenuous performance target, goal, or milestone. With these three in place, any team can win! This book will help you become the team builder you were designed to be....

Building LLMs from Scratch is a complete, end-to-end guide to designing, training, evaluating, and deploying a real Large Language Model—not a toy example, not a wrapper around an API, and not a collection of disconnected tutorials. This book walks you through a single, cohesive use case: building a production-ready Engineering Copilot LLM from the ground up. Every chapter builds on the previous one, showing how modern LLM systems are actually constructed, governed, optimized, and maintained in the real world. You will learn not just how LLMs work, but how to engineer them responsibly. ...

Small businesses often fail because owners are unaware of the many elements that can prevent the business from growing and being successful. Often, small businesses are organized around the manager's specific area of expertise, such as marketing, accounting or production. This specialized expertise often prevents the busi¬ness owner from recognizing problems that may arise in other parts of the business. This guide will provide you, the small busi¬ness entrepreneur, with the essentials for conducting a comprehensive search for existing or potential problems in your production system. This...

Build Production-Ready AI Systems in 30 Days—No PhD Required. The gap between "playing with ChatGPT" and building scalable AI business systems is enormous. Most professionals are stuck experimenting while competitors are shipping production-ready AI stacks that create real competitive advantages. "30 Days to Build Your AI Business Stack" bridges that gap with a battle-tested roadmap from someone building AI systems at scale—not selling AI courses. Written by Michael Patterson, an AI engineering leader managing 120+ engineers at a Fortune 500 company, this guide cuts through the hype to ...

Discover why Fit for Life's easy-to-follow weight-loss plan has made this enduring classic one of the bestselling diet books of all time! It's the program that shatters all the myths: Fit for Life the international bestseller that explains how to change both your figure and your life...

Stop chasing side hustles. Start building income that stacks—and sticks. If you’re burned out from trading time for money, juggling endless gigs, or relying on a single paycheck that keeps you stuck, Vertical Money is your blueprint to break free. Author and builder Larry Jones delivers a refreshingly clear, step-by-step guide to designing income streams that scale, simplify, and support your life—not sabotage it. In this powerful, practical playbook, you’ll learn how to: Build verticals—income streams that grow with you, not against you Start small with low-barrier alternatives ...

Plant managers are often the most important employees in manufacturing facilities. They are in charge of all aspects of plant operations, and they interact with virtually everyone involved with the business. This book examines these unique individuals by analyzing what they do and how they function while describing the challenges they must overcome to perform at peak levels. It also highlights the many different skills that these leaders must possess to accomplish organizational goals and objectives.

Stop Guessing How to Use AI and Start Getting Real Results in Business, Work, and Daily Life. Overwhelmed by AI hype but unsure how to turn ChatGPT and automation into something actually useful? Wasting time on prompts and tools that sound impressive but don’t move the needle? Afraid you’re falling behind, while others seem to be using AI effortlessly to work faster, smarter, and more creatively? AI once felt like a distant, overcomplicated revolution — something for tech experts or big companies, with vague claims like “AI will replace everything,” but no real guidance on how to use it.

The Last Planner® System has helped thousands of construction teams collaborate better, communicate clearer, and make stronger commitments. But most teams aren’t getting the results they were promised. --Foremen still feel the pressure. --Weekly plans still get rebuilt. --Roadblocks still show up too late. --And flow still collapses under the weight of bad production systems. Here’s the truth: The Last Planner® System isn’t broken. It’s just rarely supported the way it was meant to be. For years, the industry has tried to run a people-centered commitment system on top of CPM ...

Selling to homeowners is different - and challenging. To succeed in this environment, you need the Sandler Selling System. Selling to Homeowners the Sandler Way shows how the Sandler Selling System delivers career-changing results for salespeople who close deals in the buyer's personal, private domestic space. This kind of selling applies to dozens of industries, from remodeling to insurance.

Passive income is not about shortcuts. It is about systems that survive real life. Most books on passive income promise speed, ease, and freedom. What they rarely explain is why most attempts fail: the systems are fragile, the workload is underestimated, and the advice collapses the moment energy, health, or circumstances change. Passive Income 2026 is a practical, step-by-step guide to building income streams that are designed to last. It shows you how to create assets that continue earning without constant attention, how to reduce maintenance instead of increasing it, and how to design ...

AI-Powered Apps in Google Workspace Build Production-Ready Assistants, Dashboards, and RAG Systems with Apps Script & Gemini Most books on AI teach you how to build demos. This book teaches you how to build real AI-powered applications. AI-Powered Apps in Google Workspace is a practical, systems-focused guide for developers, indie hackers, educators, and SaaS builders who want to embed artificial intelligence directly into Google Docs, Google Sheets, and web apps—without hallucinations, brittle prompts, or unreliable results. Instead of treating AI as magic, this book shows you how to ...