Author: Martha Purrier, Patrick Graupp ISBN: 0367462672 / 9780367462673 Year: 2021 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Addressing the challenges involved in achieving standard work in health care, Getting to Standard Work in Health Care, 2nd Edition describes how to incorporate the Training Within Industry (TWI) met...
Author: Paul F. English ISBN: 1439821127 / 9781439821121 Year: 2012 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
As changing customer demands and shifting world markets continue to put a strain on businesses in all sectors, your business needs every advantage to stay competitive. Many people may think of Lean ...
Author: Gerhard J. Plenert ISBN: 1420078607 / 9781420078602 Year: 2011 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Whether it's because of a lack of understanding, poor planning, or a myriad of other things, 50 to 60 percent of the IT effort in most companies can be considered waste. Explaining how to introduce ...
Author: Mark Graham Brown ISBN: 1482205270 / 9781482205275 Year: 2013 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Updated yearly to match changing requirements, this guide is designed to help you understand the criteria for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. The Baldrige criteria are being used by tho...
Author: Henry Ford, Samuel Crowther, William A. Levinson ISBN: 1466557710 / 9781466557710 Availability: In Stock
Henry Ford's industrial innovations were directly responsible for the transformation of the United States into the most productive, affluent, and powerful nation on Earth. My Life and Work describes...
Author: Mark L. Dean ISBN: 0071817700 / 9780071817707 Year: 2013 Availability: Out of Stock
Lean Healthcare Deployment and Sustainability reveals how to successfully implement Lean methodologies in a hospital, physician practice, long-termcare facility, or other healthcare setting. This st...
Author: Tom Childs, Yasuo Yamane ISBN: 1466567635 / 9781466567634 Availability: In Stock
Based on a bestselling book originally published in Japanese, Manufacturing Technology Transfer: A Japanese Monozukuri View of Needs and Strategies offers time-tested methods and little-known tips f...
Author: James Zurn, Perry Mulligan ISBN: 1466572949 / 9781466572942 Year: 2014 Availability: In Stock
The toughest Lean Journey is one taken in an organization that is successful over a long period. Process and people are fixed in their ways and exhibit engrained behaviors. A natural resistance to c...
Author: John Roland Schultz ISBN: 1466592893 / 9781466592896 Year: 2014 Availability: In Stock
W. Edwards Deming once stated that the job of management is not supervision but leadership. He also concluded that capable leaders were those who understood and applied the system of profound knowle...
Author: Ronald Mascitelli ISBN: 096626973X / 9780966269734 Year: 2007 Availability: Out of Stock
The Lean Product Development Guidebook describes over two dozen powerful and practical methods for slashing development waste and improving resource utilization, spanning the full spectrum from ince...
Author: Ronald Mascitelli ISBN: 0966269721 / 9780966269727 Year: 2004 Availability: Out of Stock
The Lean Design Guidebook describes eighteen powerful and practical tools for product development teams that enable dramatic manufacturing cost reduction. The emphasis is on team activities that can...
Author: Jaime Villafuerte, Jon Miller, Mike Wroblewski ISBN: 9385965484 / 9789385965487 Year: 2018 Availability: In Stock
Get started with kaizen, implement it in your organization using kaizen events, and ensure the improvements are realized and sustained.
Co-written by leaders at the Kaizen Institute, Creating a K...
Author: Karen Martin, Mike Osterling ISBN: 9352601831 / 9789352601837 Year: 2020 Availability: In Stock
Winner of The Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award! Align your leadership team to deliver the highest possible value to your customers
Too many organizations today suffer from sil...
Author: Tim Purdie, Tristan Boutros ISBN: 1265821100 / 9781265821104 Year: 2023 Availability: 45-60 days
The Definitive Guide to Process Improvement & Operational Excellence. This complete body of knowledge for process improvement professionals provides an easy-to-understand foundation for process matu...
Author: Daniel Bloom ISBN: 113835919X / 9781138359192 Year: 2021 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Although world-class firms like GE and Motorola have relied on Six Sigma to build their performance cultures, these processes are all too often left out of human resources (HR) functions. This lack ...
Author: Anthony Sgroi ISBN: 1482203901 / 9781482203905 Year: 2014 Availability: In Stock
Explaining how to use Lean principles to drive innovation and strategic portfolio planning, The Innovative Lean Enterprise: Using the Principles of Lean to Create and Deliver Innovation to Customer ...
Author: Nicholas S. Katko ISBN: 0367351420 / 9780367351427 Year: 2019 Availability: In Stock
Written specifically for CFOs, this book demonstrates why and how they are the critical leaders for companies adopting a Lean Business Strategy. CFOs must lead their companies in the development of ...
Author: Joseph Niederstadt ISBN: 1482205297 / 9781482205299 Year: 2014 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
A part of the Toyota production system, Kamishibai boards are a visual control for performing audits within a manufacturing process. The Kamishibai boards allow you to identify normal versus abnorma...
Author: Joseph E. Swartz, Mark Graban ISBN: 1466586419 / 9781466586413 Year: 2014 Availability: 15-30 days
Hospitals and health systems are facing many challenges, including shrinking reimbursements and the need to improve patient safety and quality. A growing number of healthcare organizations are turni...
Author: Hiroyuki Hirano ISBN: 149877038X / 9781498770385 Year: 2016 Availability: In Stock
The one manual that every corporate executive should read again and again… re-released for the first time in an affordable paperback version
Known as the JIT bible in Japan, JIT Implementa...
Author: Rajan Suri ISBN: 036748028X / 9780367480288 Year: 2020 Availability: In Stock
In the decade since the publication of Rajan Suri’s landmark book, Quick Response Manufacturing, the innovative principles of QRM have been proven with impressive results at many companies, bi...
Author: Robert Baird ISBN: 1482206005 / 9781482206005 Year: 2014 Availability: In Stock
If you examine the characteristics of successful organizations, you will find that speed is a common denominator. Once there is a focus on speed, industry-leading improvements follow, momentum is cr...
Author: Frank Voehl, H. James Harrington, Hal Wiggin, Rich Charron ISBN: 1466564350 / 9781466564350 Year: 2014 Availability: In Stock
This book presents a first of its kind approach that describes critical components for sustainable Lean management. The handbook shows how managers at all levels of the organization can integrate Le...
Author: Josef Packowski ISBN: 1482205335 / 9781482205336 Year: 2014 Availability: Out of Stock
Delivering excellent service to all customers is the key imperative for many sustainable businesses. So why do so many supply chains struggle to fulfill customer requirements at competitive costs? T...
