Norman Bodek is an author and the President of PCS Press, started Productivity Inc. and Press in 1979 and since 1999 has focused on Toyota's second pillar "Respect for People, employee-development and employee-empowerment."

Bodek has published books and training materials and also led conferences and seminars on Total Production System - Lean, Total Productive Maintenance

Total Productive Maintenance

Total productive maintenance originated in Japan in 1971 as a method for improved machine availability through better utilization of maintenance and production resources....

, Kaizen

Kaizen

, Japanese for "improvement", or "change for the better" refers to philosophy or practices that focus upon continuous improvement of processes in manufacturing, engineering, game development, and business management. It has been applied in healthcare, psychotherapy, life-coaching, government,...

 Blitz, 5S (sometimes known as 6-S), Poka-Yoke

Poka-yoke

' is a Japanese term that means "fail-safing" or "mistake-proofing". A poka-yoke is any mechanism in a lean manufacturing process that helps an equipment operator avoid mistakes . Its purpose is to eliminate product defects by preventing, correcting, or drawing attention to human errors as they...

, Cell Design, Kanban

Kanban

, also spelled kamban, and literally meaning "signboard" or "billboard", is a concept related to lean and just-in-time production. According to Taiichi Ohno, the man credited with developing Just-in-time, kanban is one means through which JIT is achieved.Kanban is not an inventory control system...

, SMED, CEDAC, Visual Factory, and Lean Accounting.

Over the course of 30 years, Bodek traveled to Japan 75 times, visiting over 350 plants, and published over 400 Japanese management books in the English language

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

. He has met and studied the teachings of Deming

W. Edwards Deming

William Edwards Deming was an American statistician, professor, author, lecturer and consultant. He is perhaps best known for his work in Japan...

, Juran

Joseph M. Juran

Joseph Moses Juran was a 20th century management consultant who is principally remembered as an evangelist for quality and quality management, writing several influential books on those subjects. He was the brother of Academy Award winner Nathan H...

, Crosby

Phil Crosby

Philip Bayard "Phil" Crosby, was a businessman and author who contributed to management theory and quality management practices....

, and Ishikawa

Kaoru Ishikawa

was a Japanese university professor and influential quality management innovator best known in North America for the Ishikawa or cause and effect diagram that is used in the analysis of industrial process.- Biography :...

, and published the works of Akao

Yoji Akao

is a Japanese planning specialist recognized as the developer of Hoshin Kanri . With the late Shigeru Mizuno, he developed Quality Function Deployment...

, Ohno

Taiichi Ohno

was a prominent Japanese businessman. He is considered to be the father of the Toyota Production System, which became Lean Manufacturing in the U.S. He devised the seven wastes as part of this system. He wrote several books about the system, including Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale...

, Shingo

Shigeo Shingo

, born in Saga City, Japan, was a Japanese industrial engineer who distinguished himself as one of the world’s leading experts on manufacturing practices and the Toyota Production System. Shingo is known far more in the West than in Japan, as a result of his meeting Norman Bodek, an American...

just to name a few.

External links

• PCS Press