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Enna offers various books that focus on the principles of lean manufacturing, problem solving workbooks, job instruction workbooks, facilitator guides for lean and the 5S system (in English and Spanish), etc. These books are meant to be complementary to the workshop packages that are also offered through the site. 

Lean techniques can be applied to all industries and Enna does offer lean healthcare books. While their selection only has one book at the moment they do accept customized requests. This is because they are certain they can provide the best quality products. With three hundred and fifty-three items on their site, a wide range of tools for all industries are provided. For owners who are serious about improving through lean methodologies, any of these products will be worth the financial investment.

What's offered in this book?

Clinical 5S for Healthcare is written by someone who is among the leading experts in using this system in the medical field. He is considered a leading expert and speaker, while this book is considered a standard of learning 5S. His book offers steps on how to create a workplace that functions better by using perfected methods and tools. By implementing these steps hospital owners can greatly reduce, or ideally eliminate, any problems; malpractice, removing wasteful operations, this will create a revitalized environment.

The goal of this system is to encourage the creativity of all employees, leadership, and more open communication between departments. More discussion will lead to weeding out the root causes of medical errors, finding ways to eliminate human error and an excessive inventory. This is to make the job more satisfying and takes away the stress of dealing with these problems on top of meeting customer needs. This book will also teach you how to:

• Eliminate patient accidents
• Eliminating wasted time searching for items by increasing orderliness
• Optimizing the use of space to the satisfaction of patients and employees.

As the business owner, you may also want to lead the training workshop. These packages use both text based and visual teaching methods; like kaizen workshop videos. Enna has published one DVD as a beginner's introduction to this philosophy. It reveals the importance of each employee and how they can effect change.

This will teach the basics and the teacher has years of experience with these methods, he shows how these simple ideas lead to big and concrete changes. It's not meant gain huge profits immediately so patience and long term commitment is needed for the transition to lean isa success. What you can expect to see from this DVD:

• How employees can help drive continual improvement by becoming more engaged and invested in the company's success.
• How profits will be increased as more waste is removed.
• You will learn the fundamentals of the Toyota Pillars. They have used the lean systems to high success rates.
• Common mistakes that lead to failure.
• How to start implementing these techniques immediately.
•  How owners can positively affect change in all work areas.