Books

In this practical and insightful guide, Mohammed Hamed Ahmed Soliman brings the proven principles of Lean to the world of software development. Whether you’re managing large-scale enterprise applications or agile startup teams, this book will show you how to eliminate waste, optimize flow, and deliver real customer value—faster.

In The Lean Kitchen: Applying Industrial Wisdom to Everyday Life, Dr. Mohammed Hamed Ahmed Soliman transforms your daily cooking chaos into a system of clarity, purpose, and progress. Blending the principles of Lean thinking with the heart of the home—your kitchen—this practical and inspiring book shows how small changes lead to big transformations.

Most guides teach you how to publish. This book teaches you how the publishing system actually works — and how to master it the Toyota Way. For the first time, Lean manufacturing principles meet the modern world of digital authorship. Industrial logic, continuous improvement, and data-driven thinking are translated into clear, actionable publishing strategies.

Many businesses say that lean failed to meet their long-term objectives and that the improvements it brought about were only temporary. When businesses utilize lean as a toolkit, copying and pasting the methodologies without trying to adapt the employee culture, manage the improvement process, maintain the outcomes, and grow their leaders, 7 out of every 10 lean projects fail. The primary objective when the Toyota production method was developed was to eliminate wastes from the shop floor by utilizing some lean techniques and technologies. What wasn't made obvious was that Toyota would need to invest heavily in personnel development and training throughout a protracted leadership development process. An issue with management and leadership, as well as an incorrect understanding of human behavior and the necessary culture for success, is the failure to achieve and sustain improvement.

What if your team could stop problems the moment they begin — or even before? That’s the power of Andon, one of Toyota’s simplest and most powerful Lean tools.

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 benchmark in manufacturing excellence. Learn why Western automakers misunderstood JIT—and how Lean Thinking, as popularized by James P. Womack, revealed the true power of connecting the whole value chain to customer demand.

One piece flow (or single-piece flow) is a lean manufacturing strategy where products are moved through production steps one unit at a time, rather than in batches. It improves efficiency and reduces waste by eliminating inventory bottlenecks between workstations, allowing for faster delivery and better quality control.

This book discusses several themes driven and concluded from Toyota that are required to deploy strategies and align goals.

In this clear and practical guide, Dr. Mohamed H. Soliman explains how pull systems work, how they reduce overproduction, and how they connect to Just-in-Time (JIT) as part of Toyota’s lean philosophy.

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.

This rule applies to both high-level leaders and lower-level supervisors. In simple words, genchi genbutsu in Japanese means "go and see" but it directly translates to "real place and real thing. "

This book demystifies the changeover process and shows you how to:Understand the true cost of downtime and setup inefficienciesApply SMED (Single-Minute Exchange of Dies) techniques to drastically cut changeover timesIdentify which steps add value and which can be simplified, standardized, or eliminatedBuild a culture of continuous improvement where operators actively drive setup reduction

This practical guide introduces Value Stream Mapping (VSM)—a foundational Lean tool that visually captures every step in the flow of materials and information required to deliver a product or service. Used effectively, process mapping enables teams to identify waste, streamline workflows, and align operations with customer value.

Key Insights Include: How the 7 types of operational waste (inventory, motion, waiting, overprocessing, overproduction, transport, defects) are silently crippling security operations—and how to eliminate them.

Lean Finance for Managers shows you how to connect financial numbers with Lean principles so you can see your business more clearly and make better decisions. Written in plain language, with practical examples and case studies, it helps managers at every level turn accounting into a tool for performance—not just compliance.