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	Home    Lean learning    Events    Useful publications    Links    About AME-UK    Contact us		Useful related web sites The following sites contain information on topics closely related to, or useful in operating, lean manufacturing.

Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME, US) This site is run by the US Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME). They run programmes for their members to help their manufacturers implement the best current manufacturing practice. The website is extensive and recommends sources of information on all aspects of lean operation. There are 6,000 manufacturing members who learn more profitable ways of operating from each other. The message spreads. Every autumn they run what is arguably the best manufacturing conference in the world. You visit world class manufacturers. You hear and see how they’ve become so. It’s not rocket science - you can learn how to do it in your own company. See our Events page for more details. Delegates often bring back how to reduce their operating costs by hundreds of thousands of pounds and easily recover the investment. You’ll be infected by their huge enthusiasm for what they’ve learned. Once they’ve attended, they want to visit every year.

Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME, Australia) The AME (Australia) is an affiliate of the AME (North America). A group of individuals eager not only to improve their own knowledge of manufacturing excellence, but also to share experiences with other members, both through informal networking and more formal local and international events and conferences.

the High Performance Manufacturing Consortium Similar aims to AME above.

The Lean Enterprise Academy A source of advanced 'Lean Thinking' in the United Kingdom. A non-profit academy established to develop knowledge of Lean Thinking and its implementation and to disseminate this knowledge through publications and workshops. Founding Chairman: Daniel T Jones

the Lean Enterprise Institute Instigated by the authors of The Machine that Changed the World and Lean Thinking, the site aims at helping companies to implement the best current manufacturing practice, based on zero stock practice.

I & J Munn Promoting TOC-Lean (Theory Of Constraints) I & J Munn use the TOC applications in logistics and projects to address the issues of constraints and the focusing power of TOC to gain the fullest advantage from Lean and Quality Systems. The strategic objective of I & J Munn is to improve your bottom line performance by implementing solutions through the generation and dissemination of knowledge.

Kunst Art Of Solutions Richard Kunst is an experienced company director who is now helping other companies: he has designed solutions based on proven tools to help jump start programmes within organisations in the manufacturing and service fields.

PICSIE Associates PICSIE Associates site provides information on its own Lean operations books, games or courses. They provide business learning aids in various formats to individuals, universities and companies throughout the world. They specialise in just-in-time management, Lean manufacturing and quality. They have a reputation for providing the best learning aids in the field and are held in high esteem.

Productivity Incorporated Useful website in that Productivity Press has the sole rights to publish many of the books on Lean aspects of production by Japanese authorities such as Shigeo Shingo. Books such as A study of the Toyota Production System and Non Stock Production are classics. No chief executive can afford not to have read, understood and put them into practice.

see also American Technical Publishers web site (and our Useful Publications page).

Manufacturingtalk The home of the Manufacturingtalk email newsletter for Manufacturing, Production and Automation Engineers.

Works Management A site for leaders, managers and decision makers at every level, every size of plant and in every sector of manufacturing in the UK. Includes the latest industry news, a range of editorial features, case studies and a supplier directory.

			Manufacturing Computer Solutions An IT and management site for manufacturers and engineering businesses, providing the latest industry news, an IT shortlist section detailing software, hardware and IT service providers, editorial features and case studies.

		Dr C B Mynott, Secretariat, AME-UK