Author: Chris A. Ortiz ISBN: 1498741754 / 9781498741750 Year: 2016 Availability: Out of Stock
A scheduling system for Lean and just-in-time production, Kanban is a proven tool for reducing waste, inventory, and lead times. The implementation of Kanban, however, is a manually intensive action...
Author: Chris A. Ortiz ISBN: 1498730353 / 9781498730358 Year: 2016 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
A powerful and effective Lean tool, 5S can help prevent company failure and launch an organization into world-class operational excellence. Until now, however, there has been a need for a book with ...
Author: Patrick Graupp, Robert J. Wrona ISBN: 1498703968 / 9781498703963 Year: 2016 Availability: In Stock
Since the publication of its Shingo Prize-winning predecessor, TWI programs have seen steady growth in usage. As a true understanding of Standard Work has developed, the need for the TWI skills as f...
Author: Bob Sproull, Bruce Nelson ISBN: 1498746039 / 9781498746038 Year: 2016 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Most books about continuous and process improvement are written in a textbook format with straightforward information and plenty of graphs and charts to convey the points being made. Sometimes, even...
Author: Alain Patchong ISBN: 146656363X / 9781466563636 Year: 2016 Availability: In Stock
Standardized Work refers to the process of finding and applying the best operational methods that will lead to cost reduction, better product quality, and increased operator safety. This book, the l...
Author: Chris A. Ortiz ISBN: 1498741703 / 9781498741705 Year: 2016 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks.
Cell manufacturing takes traditional process-based production environments and creates right-sized smaller work areas that have all of the essential workstations and equipment needed to produce the ...
Author: Chris A. Ortiz ISBN: 1498741665 / 9781498741668 Year: 2016 Availability: Out of Stock
A companywide approach to improving the effectiveness and longevity of equipment and machines, Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is a critical component of production line success. The need for a s...
Author: Bas Lohman, Kjeld H. Aij ISBN: 1498748023 / 9781498748025 Year: 2016 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
The application of Lean tools appears relatively simple, but the change in culture required to turn Lean into a lasting success requires strong leadership. Previously published books about Lean in h...
Author: Lisa Boisvert ISBN: 148229978X / 9781482299786 Year: 2016 Availability: In Stock
The conditions in which Hoshin Planning is practiced today are somewhat different than those in which the method was developed during the 1950s. There is better and more broadly distributed understa...
Author: John E. Madigan, Mohammad Ali, Todd C. Maher ISBN: 1498738966 / 9781498738965 Year: 2016 Availability: In Stock
Created by Lean practitioners with real-world, results-proven track records, this book is designed to help struggling managers and leaders, interested in the benefits of Lean but bereft of budgets t...
Author: ASQ Quality Management Division, Douglas C. Wood ISBN: 8174890408 / 9788174890405 Year: 2016 Availability: In Stock
The last decade has seen wide changes in how quality standards are applied in industry. We now have two functions: quality assurance and process improvement. Quality assurance focuses primarily on p...
Author: Shirose Kunio ISBN: 1498767397 / 9781498767392 Availability: In Stock
Workshop leaders play a central role in your company's efforts to implement TPM. Once your workers have been divided into small groups to learn the fundamentals of TPM, it is the group leader who sp...
Author: Keisuke Arai, Kenichi Sekine ISBN: 1498767400 / 9781498767408 Availability: In Stock
Lean manufacturing cannot happen in a factory that lacks dependable, effective equipment. Breakdowns and processing defects translate into excess work-in-process and finished inventory, kept on hand...
Author: James Leflar ISBN: 1498767419 / 9781498767415 Year: 2016 Availability: In Stock
Agilent Technologies, formerly Hewlett-Packard's Test and Measurement Division, operates an integrated circuit fabrication plant in Fort Collins, Colorado. Guided by Masaji Taijiri, the author of 7 ...
Author: Gary A. DePaul ISBN: 1032226331 / 9781032226330 Year: 2022 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Near the end of the 20th Century, the leadership concept has radically evolved from the traditional concept of accomplishing work through others. Unfortunately, too many professionals unconsciously ...
Author: Willis H. Thomas ISBN: 1482204533 / 9781482204537 Year: 2015 Availability: In Stock
For some organizations, Lessons Learned (LL) is an informal process of discussing and recording project experiences during the closure phase. For others, LL is a formal process that occurs at the en...
Author: Lance B. Coleman ISBN: 1482217104 / 9781482217100 Year: 2015 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Does your organization provide customer satisfaction or does it inspire customer loyalty? Which is more important? See how lessons learned from the service sector were applied to manufacturing and o...
Author: , , William S. Ruggles ISBN: 1466572531 / 9781466572539 Year: 2016 Availability: In Stock
With an estimated 70 percent of new projects failing to add value to the organization, reducing project failure rate represents one of the biggest improvement opportunities available today. This boo...
Author: Lonnie Wilson ISBN: 9339222156 / 9789339222154 Year: 2015 Availability: Out of Stock
Cutting-edge Lean manufacturing strategies
Thoroughly updated with the latest trends and new global case studies, How to Implement Lean Manufacturing, Second Edition, explains how to implement th...
Author: Joyce I. Warnacut ISBN: 1498737137 / 9781498737135 Year: 2016 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Although there are numerous books on alternative accounting methods, such as Lean accounting, none focus on the impact of time and how accounting practices can be modified to acknowledge the power o...
Author: Kevin J. Duggan ISBN: 1498712487 / 9781498712484 Year: 2016 Availability: In Stock
While more and more companies are aggressively pursuing Operational Excellence by employing Six Sigma, Lean, and other continuous improvement methods, the concept has yet to be defined in a way that...
Author: Charles Protzman, Dan Protzman, Joe McNamara ISBN: 1498726941 / 9781498726948 Year: 2016 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Although batching often appears more efficient than one-piece flow for individual tasks, the practice creates waste for other parts of the organization that more than offset its perceived benefits. ...
Author: Matthew A. Barsalou ISBN: 0873898923 / 9780873898928 Year: 2015 Availability: Out of Stock
This book is written for the Six Sigma Black Belt who needs an understanding of many statistical methods but does not use all of these methods every day. It is intended to be used as a quick referen...
Author: Carol Ptak, Chad Smith ISBN: 0831136510 / 9780831136512 Year: 2019 Availability: In Stock
In the 1950s, a method called Material Requirements Planning (or “MRP”) changed the world of manufacturing forever. But times have changed—customer tolerance times are shorter, pro...
Author: Chris A. Ortiz ISBN: 1498741649 / 9781498741644 Year: 2016 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks.
Complete with color pictures from real quick changeover implementations, The Quick Changeover Playbook provides detailed step-by-step guidelines on how to reduce setup times as well as improve flexi...
