Author: Maura Way, Samuel Carlson ISBN: 1439837430 / 9781439837436 Year: 2016 Availability: In Stock
Mistake-proofing is an improvement technology that uses a device or procedure, also called a poka-yoke, to prevent defects or errors during a process. Mistake-proofing in healthcare can improve the ...
Author: Thomas L. Jackson ISBN: 1466551844 / 9781466551848 Year: 2013 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Hospitals are designed around specialized functions or departments, each with their own management, employees, and budget. The problems and waste occur when these departments interact or handoff pat...
Author: Kazuo Inamori ISBN: 146650949X / 9781466509498 Year: 2013 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Especially effective in dynamic and highly competitive environments, the Amoeba Management System has received attention from the Harvard Business Review and has already been successfully adopted at...
Author: Janet Bautista Smith ISBN: 0873898400 / 9780873898409 Year: 2012 Availability: Out of Stock
This publication introduces a portable audit model to facilitate a simple, flexible, and effective audit of single or multiple quality system standards and achieve both compliance and initiation of ...
Author: Howard Williams, Rebecca Duray ISBN: 1439876029 / 9781439876022 Year: 2013 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Focusing on the application of Lean practices to IT, this book presents tools and techniques for IT operations and IT service management. The author provides a context for discussing several areas o...
Author: Steven Bell ISBN: 1466504498 / 9781466504493 Year: 2012 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
This book unifies the various IT sub-communities and disciplines, providing a collaborative value stream management approach that harnesses the principles and practices of Lean to deliver consistent...
Author: Andrew Thu Pham, David Khoi Pham ISBN: 1466557486 / 9781466557482 Year: 2012 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
This book explains how to successfully deploy Agile and Kanban on a large scale in order to increase IT delivery capabilities. It factors in change, communication, a sense of urgency, clear and meas...
Author: Art Smalley ISBN: 0974322504 / 9780974322506 Year: 2004 Availability: Out of Stock
Creating Level Pull shows you how to advance a lean manufacturing transformation from a focus on isolated improvements to improving the entire plantwide production system by implementing a lean prod...
Author: Diomidis H. Stamatis ISBN: 1439876002 / 9781439876008 Year: 2011 Availability: In Stock
As a society, we tend to reward problem solvers, rather than those who prevent problems at their source. In other words, we focus on after-the-fact occurrences (appraisal activities) instead of tryi...
Author: Daniel Markovitz ISBN: 0367480115 / 9780367480110 Year: 2020 Availability: In Stock
Most business readers have heard of the Lean principles developed for factories - a set of tools and ideas that have enabled companies to dramatically boost quality by reducing waste and errors - pr...
Author: Michael K. Levine ISBN: 1439879753 / 9781439879757 Year: 2011 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
There are many books that seek to explain Lean and Agile software that offer theory, techniques, and examples. Michael Levine’s first book, A Tale of Two Systems, is one of the best, synthesiz...
Author: Jon M. Quigley, Kim H. Pries ISBN: 143988725X / 9781439887257 Year: 2013 Availability: In Stock
This book reviews the multiple techniques and areas for improving the cost of products, processes, and services. It presents multiple approaches that can help readers select the best solution for th...
Author: Barry L. Cross ISBN: 1466515252 / 9781466515253 Year: 2013 Availability: In Stock
Do these comments sound familiar?
We would love to be more innovative, but we don’t have the resources
Innovation works in some companies; we just aren’t that creative
We ge...
Author: John R. Henry ISBN: 146650174X / 9781466501744 Year: 2013 Availability: In Stock
Taking a holistic approach, this book examines changeover/SMED (single minute exchange of die), the conversion of a manufacturing process/machine from running the current product to running the next...
Author: SME ISBN: DV10PUB2 Year: 2010 Availability: 45-60 days
Sharing practical experience through the words of Kimberly-Clark employees and lean expert, Jean Cunningham, this program presents working examples of how lean principles and methodologies are being...
Author: SME ISBN: DV11PUB4 Year: 2011 Availability: 45-60 days
Most organizations can develop a long list of things of things that are either broken or in need of improvement. Its not so easy to decide, however, which to do first, and which to put aside. Policy...
Author: Robert Damelio ISBN: 1563273764 / 9781563273766 Year: 2011 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
The bestselling first edition of this influential resource has been incorporated into the curriculum at forward thinking colleges and universities, a leading vocational technical institute, many in-...
Author: Gordon Ghirann ISBN: 1439819653 / 9781439819654 Year: 2012 Availability: In Stock
Self-Balancing is not just a tweak or change to assembly line balancing, but a completely transformed method for achieving continuous flow. Among the reasons you should try Self-Balancing is that yo...
Author: Laurie Broedling, Vern Goodwalt ISBN: 087389832X / 9780873898324 Year: 2012 Availability: Out of Stock
The purpose of this book is to explain the Team Excellence Framework (TEF) and how to leverage it to ensure the success of your improvement teams. This framework has a long-standing track record of ...
Author: Barbara Lawton, Issa Bass ISBN: 0071070761 / 9780071070768 Year: 2011 Availability: Out of Stock
Effectively Execute Lean Six Sigma Projects using SigmaXL and Minitab
Written by a Six Sigma Master Black Belt and a Ph.D., this practical guide to Lean Six Sigma project execution follows the DM...
Author: Mandyam M. Srinivasan ISBN: 0071771212 / 9780071771214 Year: 2012 Availability: 45-60 days
INNOVATION STRATEGIES for building and managing the supply chain using Lean and the Theory of Constraints (TOC)
With an emphasis on systems thinking, Building Lean Supply Chains with the Theory o...
Author: Phillip Marksberry ISBN: 1466556749 / 9781466556744 Availability: In Stock
Numerous books have been written about Toyota's approach to workplace improvement; however, most describe Toyota's practices as case studies or stories. Designed to aid in the implementation of Lean...
Author: Dan Jones, Jim Womack ISBN: 0966784359 / 9780966784350 Year: 2002 Availability: Out of Stock
The Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) is a nonprofit education, publishing, conferencing, and management research organization founded in 1997 by lean management expert, James P. Womack, Ph.D. LEI's m...
Author: Karen Martin, Mike Osterling ISBN: 1439886687 / 9781439886687 Year: 2013 Availability: Out of Stock
Metrics-Based Process Mapping (MBPM) is a tactical-level, visual mapping approach that enables improvement teams to make effective, data-based decisions regarding waste elimination and measure ongoi...
