Taiichi Ohno / Japan Management Association, Kanban: Just-in-Time at Toyota, Productivity Press, 1985 James Womack and Daniel Jones, Lean Thinking, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1996, ISBN 0-684-81035-2 John Bicheno, The Quality 60, PICSIE Books, Buckingham, 1998.

The examples are from:
David Brunt and Chris Butterworth, "Waste Elimination in Lean Production - A supply Chain Perspective", Proc ISATA 98, Düsseldorf