Books
These are
my take at the other books I suggest that
Industrial Engineers should read.
Note: This is simply my opinion. If you disagree or have
a comment e-mail
me and maybe I'll change my mind (and my list).
These are the books I
recently purchased and am currently reading.
Click here for books I am currently reading.
As this
list has grown, I have tried to categorize the books.
Lean/Agile/TPS
History
Aerospace
Fiction
Enterprise Engineering
Other
The Agile Virtual Enterprise: Cases,
Metrics, Tools
 Buy
it at Amazon.Com
A good, organized view of agility. Authored by a
person who made agility his life (other books are by
those casually involved).
Lean Thinking : Banish Waste and Create Wealth in
Your Corporation (James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones)
 Buy
it at Amazon.Com
It is a good book, but
I think it does not offer enough "how-tos." It mostly
talks about cool things that other companies have done,
but provides few details. So, I moved it from the top
ten list and placed "Quick Response Manufacturing" in
its place. It's still a worthy read.
Book Description: In their landmark book The Machine
That Changed the World, James Womack and Daniel Jones,
two of the top industrial analysts in the world,
explained how companies can dramatically improve their
performance through the "lean production" approach
pioneered by Toyota. Lean Thinking extends these ideas
to provide a rallying cry for today's corporate leaders.
After a decade of downsizing and reengineering, most
companies in North America, Europe, and Japan are still
stuck, searching for a formula for sustainable growth
and success. The problem, as Womack and Jones explain in
Lean Thinking, is that managers have lost sight of value
for the customer and how to create it. By focusing on
their existing organizations and outdated definitions of
value, managers create waste, and the economies of the
advanced countries continue to stagnate. What's needed
instead is lean thinking to help managers clearly
specify value, to line up all the value-creating
activities for a specific product along a value stream,
and to make value flow smoothly at the pull of the
customer in pursuit of perfection. The first part of the
book describes each of these concepts and makes them
come alive with striking examples.
A Study of the Toyota Production System from an
Industrial Engineering Viewpoint (Shigeo Shingo).
 Order
it at Amazon.Com
Toyota Production System : Beyond Large-Scale
Production
 Order
it at Amazon.Com
The Kaizen Blitz: Accelerating Breakthroughs in
Productivity and Performance
 Order
it at Amazon.Com
5S for Operators: 5 Pillars of the Visual Workplace
 Order
it at Amazon.Com
Airframe Structural Design (Mike Niu)
Currently on backorder, but have them order one anyway
at Amazon.Com
Not truly IE, but I work with aerospace people and
this is an excellent book on the basics!
Standard Aircraft Handbook (Larry Reithmaier)
Order it at Amazon.Com
Again, not truly IE, but good companion to the
previous book.
Frederick W. Taylor : The Father of Scientific
Management : Myth and Reality(Charles D. Wrege, Ronald
G. Greenwood )
Buy it at Amazon.Com
It would pretty much not be a list of IE books
without a least one about Frederick Taylor.
Cheaper by the Dozen (Frank B., Jr. Gilbreth,
Ernestine G. Carey)
Hardcover.
Buy it at Amazon.Com
Softcover Version.
Buy it at Amazon.Com
I would probably be shot if I did not include this.
Airframe (Michael Crichton)
Buy it at Amazon.Com
Novel about life in the airframe industry.
Fascinating reading!
Precipice (Daniel Pollock )
Buy it at Amazon.Com
A thrilling novel about logistics. Kind of a "Goal"
(the number one book listed below) for logistics.
Review by Martha
Groves, Los Angeles Times, October 1997 One would hardly
expect to see the words 'logistics' and 'thriller' in
the same sentence...yet they are.
From the Publisher
Logistics is something that most people take for
granted. Few individuals question how their food,
clothing, medicine, and other materials get to their
neighborhood stores from places around the world. Few
realize the intricate connections that allow commerce to
take place between companies and between countries.
From the Inside Flap
The New York Times called Daniel Pollock's Lair of the
Fox "a can't-put-down book." Now he ushers us into a
hidden world of power, where goods, money, and
information flow... and treachery can bring a
corporation-or a nation-to the edge of a....
Enterprise Modeling and Integration : Principles and
Applications (Francois Vernadat)
Out of print at Amazon.com
Outstanding book, I classify it as
THE
must read book for all people interested in this field.
The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the
Learning Organization (Peter M. Senge)
Buy it at Amazon.Com
The book on learning organizations, presents a fresh
look at leadership.
The Agenda: What Every Business Must
Do to Dominate the Decade (Michael Hammer)
Buy it at Amazon.Com
The latest book
by Hammer (the originator of BPR).
How to Lie With Statistics (Darrell Huff)
Buy it at Amazon.Com
I haven't actually read this one, but plan to.
Darrell Huff runs the
gamut of every popularly used type of statistic, probes
such things as the sample study, the tabulation method,
the interview technique, or the way the results are
derived from the figures, and points up the countless
number of dodges which are used to fool rather than
inform.
Core LEGO MINDSTORMS Programming: Unleash the Power
of the Java Platform (Brian Bagnall)
Buy it at Amazon.Com
Lego mindstorms is the coolest thing to hit my
relationship with my son.
A bit advanced, but a
cool extension. From the Back Cover * Complete 3-D plans
for building five unique robots * Advanced control
techniques—including distance and compass sensors *
Behavior control programming, the breakthrough
methodology invented at MIT * For LEGO Mindstorms
Robotics Invention System, versions 1.0, 1.5, and 2.0
Jin Sato's Lego Mindstorms: The Master's Technique
(Jin Sato)
Buy it at Amazon.Com
Lego mindstorms is the coolest thing to hit my
relationship with my son.
Step-by-step
instructions show you how to build five fascinating
robots, including the author's famous robotic dog, MIBO.
The LEGO MINDSTORMS robotics kits make it easy and fun
to build working robots with LEGO bricks, motors, and a
programmable controller. In his landmark book, Jin Sato
introduces the basic principles in robotic engineering,
including how to plan and build robots with tires, legs,
and grasping hands. Readers even learn how to build
Sato's famous robotic dog MIBO as well as four other
robots. Includes a parts list for the robots and
coverage of the programming environment, assembly
drawings, and more.
Revised:
June 19, 2006.
Copyright © 1997-2005 by
Larry Whitman.
All trademarks or product names mentioned herein are the
property of their respective owners.
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