This CD-ROM contains the proceedings from the 2008 Lean and Quality Conference and Expo. The CD-ROM is designed to allow you to search by various methods to find a particular paper or author at the conference. The following search capabilities are available on this CD-ROM: Keyword Search The Search Screen has a keyword search which includes boolean logic options to enable you to widen or narrow your search. The keyword search, searches through the paper titles, introduction or abstract, authors and keywords provided for each paper. You may type in any number of words that you wish to search on in this box. Leave a space between each word that you type in. Do not use commas (,) to separate the words. Boolean Logic Any words - The search results will include pages that have ANY of the words you typed in. All words - The search results will include pages that have ALL of the words you type in. Exact phrase - The search results will include pages that have the exact phrase you typed in.   Title On the Search screen, you may also scroll through all of the papers in alphabetical order. Click on any of the topics to view more detailed information (authors, volume, section and a link to that author's paper)   Program On the Program screen, you may scroll through the list of titles by date and click on the title view details of the presentation.   Author Index On the Author Index screen, you may also scroll through the list of authors in alphabetical order, then click Go to view the list of papers for each author.   NOTE: This CD-ROM contains the complete papers presented by the authors. The papers are in Adobe Acrobat format. You will find these papers under the link "View paper" on the screens containing the abstracts. In order to view the papers you need to have either a full version of Adobe Acrobat or the Adobe® Acrobat® Reader® . The reader is freely available from the Adobe website. Click on the Logo below to go to the Adobe website.