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 email me and maybe I’ll change my mind (and my list).
LEAN/AGILE/TPS
•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 By focusing on their existing organizations and outdated definitions of value, managers create waste, and the economies of the advanced countries continue to stagnate.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
•AEROSPACE
•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.
HISTORY
•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.
FICTION
•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.
ENTERPRISE ENGINEERING
•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).
OTHER
•How to Lie With Statistics (Darrell Huff) Buy it at Amazon.Com I haven’t actually read this one, but plan to.
•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.
•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.