Author: Jerry L. Harbour ISBN: 1482298813 / 9781482298819 Year: 2015 Availability: In Stock
As companies continue their efforts to improve work performance, they must ensure that their ongoing Lean activities include a healthy appreciation for, and recognition of, human performance. Ignori...
Author: Cheryl M. Jekiel ISBN: 1138595381 / 9781138595385 Year: 2020 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Lean Human Resources addresses a critical issue facing organisations undertaking lean transformation or attempting to create a lean culture of continuous improvement. People are the single biggest f...
Author: Susanne Pejstrup, Vibeke Fladkjaer Nielsen ISBN: 1138317705 / 9781138317703 Year: 2018 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Responding to a recent surge in interest, this is the first book to comprehensively address how Lean thinking and tools can be implemented in agriculture. This handbook breaks down barriers, clearly...
Author: Vincent Wiegel ISBN: 1138323136 / 9781138323131 Year: 2019 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
The current way of organizing education is not tenable in the coming decade. We need to address how we teach, how we organize schools, how we increase the effectiveness of learning, how we construct...
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: Michael A Orzen, Steven C Bell ISBN: 1439817561 / 9781439817568 Year: 2015 Availability: In Stock
Information Technology is supposed to enable business performance and innovation, improve service levels, manage change, and maintain quality and stability, all while steadily reducing operating cos...
Author: Ronald G. Bercaw ISBN: 1466515546 / 9781466515543 Year: 2013 Availability: In Stock
This book explains how to apply Lean improvement to clinical and non-clinical processes. Written by a sensei, it delivers valuable lessons learned over the years of providing improvements in the hea...
Author: Michel Baudin ISBN: 1138198307 / 9781138198302 Year: 2017 Availability: In Stock
Are your warehouses full while production is stopped by shortages? Do you know what you have, and when the next replenishments will come? Do your customers complain that your lead times are too long...
Author: Javier Giron Blanco, Torsten Dederichs ISBN: 1138732370 / 9781138732377 Year: 2017 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
The book is about applying Lean manufacturing principles to industrial maintenance in order to improve the efficiency and be able to do more with the same (or less) resources. By industrial maintena...
Author: William A. Levinson ISBN: 1466505370 / 9781466505377 Year: 2012 Availability: In Stock
The success of a Lean manufacturing program depends far more on organization-wide leverage of Lean manufacturing tools than it does on the tools themselves. To this the organization must add the hum...
Author: John X. Wang ISBN: 1420086022 / 9781420086027 Year: 2011 Availability: In Stock
The delivery of real bottom-line results from manufacturing improvements has proven to be much harder than expected for most companies. TQM, Zero-Defect Manufacturing, and Business Process Re-engine...
Author: Cordell Hensley ISBN: 113821745X / 9781138217454 Year: 2017 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
It has been reported that about 70% of performance-improvement initiatives fail to achieve desired results. The primary causes are unrealistic expectations regarding effort and results and too much ...
Author: Drew Locher ISBN: 1498771947 / 9781498771948 Year: 2016 Availability: In Stock
Demystifying the application of Lean methods, Lean Office and Service Simplified : The Definitive How-To Guide goes beyond the basic tools to detail the key concepts of Lean as they apply to office ...
Author: John Nicholas ISBN: 036714655X / 9780367146559 Year: 2021 Availability: In Stock
Lean Production for Competitive Advantage: A Comprehensive Guide to Lean Methodologies and Management Practices, Second Edition introduces Lean philosophy and illustrates the effective application o...
Author: Mike Elbert ISBN: 1439877793 / 9781439877791 Year: 2013 Availability: In Stock
A hands-on guide to adapting Lean principles and the Toyota Production System to high-mix/low-volume environments, Lean Production for the Small Company uses charts, pictures, and easy-to-understand...
Author: Pascal Dennis ISBN: 1138196258 / 9781138196254 Year: 2022 Availability: In Stock
Following in the tradition of its Shingo Prize-winning predecessors, Lean Production Simplified, Third Edition gives a clear overview of the structure and tools of the Lean production system. Writte...
Author: Ian Fraser Glenday, Ricky L. Sather ISBN: 146657819X / 9781466578197 Year: 2013 Availability: In Stock
This book describes how to create "economies of repetition"—an different improvement approach focused on maximizing natural human behaviors of learning curve, routines and stability that resul...
Author: Robert Hafey ISBN: 1439816425 / 9781439816424 Year: 2010 Availability: In Stock
While worker safety is often touted as a company’s first priority, more often than not, safety activity is driven by compliance to legislation rather than any safety improvement initiative. Le...
Author: Robert Hafey ISBN: 1482258986 / 9781482258981 Year: 2015 Availability: In Stock
This book is a follow-up to the author's bestselling book, Lean Safety, published in 2010. It is a natural progression from the philosophical overview provided by Lean Safety to the reality of the a...
Author: Terra Vanzant Stern ISBN: 1498739601 / 9781498739603 Year: 2016 Availability: In Stock
A hybrid methodology, Lean Six Sigma (LSS) is designed to accommodate global challenges and constraints by capitalizing on Six Sigma and Lean Thinking. LSS incorporates best practices from programs ...
Author: Kyle Toppazzini ISBN: 1498735983 / 9781498735988 Year: 2022 Availability: Out of Stock
Lean Sigma initiatives often plateau and fail because the philosophy on which they should be built to ensure sustainability is missing. Business conducted in China is different than in the West. "Ch...
Author: James Sutton, Peter Middleton ISBN: 1563273055 / 9781563273056 Year: 2006 Availability: In Stock
Lean production, which has radically benefited traditional manufacturing, can greatly improve the software industry with similar methods and results. This transformation is possible because the same...
Author: James A. Euchner ISBN: 1138359130 / 9781138359130 Year: 2022 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Large corporations must become far more agile in implementing new products and new business models. The pace of technology change, the blurring of industry boundaries, and the agility and resources ...
Author: Chris Harris, Chuck Streeter, Rick Harris ISBN: 1439811253 / 9781439811252 Year: 2011 Availability: In Stock
In the global marketplace, no business is a self-contained island. No matter how effective your internal material movement, to be a future-thinking business, you must go to the next step and develop...
Author: Productivity Press Development Team ISBN: 1563273306 / 9781563273308 Year: 2005 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Applying lean to the supply chain is a hot topic. While lean operations can produce significant benefits to an organization, the greatest benefits will not be realized unless lean is extended beyond...
