All About Pull Production: Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining Kanban, CONWIP, and other Pull Systems in Lean Production

by Christoph Roser, John Shook (Foreword)

All About Pull Production is a practical guide for anyone looking to implement pull systems. It focuses on practical application and values functionality over theory, albeit it explains the underlying relations. It is not a high-level philosophical discussion of lean, but a book to help you roll up your sleeves and get the job done . It is written for the practitioner . If you are working in production or logistics and want to implement pull, then this book is for you. It also serves as a useful reference for students and researchers of lean manufacturing. With a foreword by John Shook. The book has received the prestigious Shingo Publication Award on October 2022.

414 pages, Paperback

Published April 1, 2021

About the author

Christoph Roser is a professor of production management at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences. He writes based on decades of experience in implementing, researching, and teaching lean manufacturing, including five years working at and researching for Toyota in Japan. Besides academic writing and his book Faster, Better, Cheaper in the History of Manufacturing he also has a popular blog on Lean manufacturing: AllAboutLean.com

Throughout his career, Christoph Roser has worked in numerous different industry fields including but not limited to automotive, machine building, robotics industry, injection molding, semiconductor, white goods, power tools, heating technology, security systems, energy, paper & pulp, food industry, foundry, and logistics services. Overall, he supported projects in almost two hundred different plants in a multitude of industries.

Christoph Roser also has significant international experience, working in the following countries for up to multiple years: Australia, Austria, Belgium, China, Czech Republic, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, and the USA. He is fluent in English and German, and speaks some Japanese.

Reviews

[Hendrick Mcdonald · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good if you want details on every type of system

This was a very detailed book, but a very good at going through each of the different types of pull systems. If you’re looking for a general explanation of the usefulness of pull systems, this may be a bit more detailed than what you need but if you’re looking for that level of detail, I doubt there’s any book that does better.