(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- How do you take talented engineers and surround them with the elements needed to create brilliant designs that lead to market-changing products? A lean production preparation process (3P) is how.

Written from an operations perspective, The Lean 3P Advantage: A Practitioner’s Guide to the Production Preparation Process (Productivity Press, 2012) explains how to build collaborative thinking and innovation into the front end of the design process. Describing how to develop successful new products concurrently with new operations, the book illustrates real-world scenarios with numerous examples and case studies to help newcomers succeed the first time around. For those familiar with 3P, the book supplies the basis to explore Evergreen 3P—a process for applying 3P to small-scale design projects for similar benefits.

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