Author: Casey J. Bedgood ISBN: 103232631X / 9781032326313 Year: 2022 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Is knowledge powerful? Do leaders and those aspiring really understand the importance and power of organizational knowledge? Can knowing accelerate one’s career journey while not knowing disru...
Author: Eric M. Ethington, Matthew J. Zayko ISBN: 0367690306 / 9780367690304 Year: 2022 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Lean Process Creation teaches the specific frames—the 6CON model—to look through to properly design any new process while optimizing the value-creating resources. The framing is applicab...
Author: Douglas B. Relyea ISBN: 1439847789 / 9781439847787 Year: 2011 Availability: In Stock
Creating a universal language for problem solving, The Practical Application of the Process Capability Study : Evolving from Product Control to Process Control delineates the process capability stud...
Author: Rajan Suri ISBN: 1138210641 / 9781138210646 Year: 2018 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
POLCA (Paired-cell Overlapping Loops of Cards with Authorization) is a card-based visual control system that manages the flow of jobs through the shop floor: at each operation, it controls which job...
Author: Bob Sproull ISBN: 0815361408 / 9780815361404 Year: 2018 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Each day, managers and employees are confronted with a plethora of real problems and decisions that are creating issues suchs as lost throughput, poor quality, personnel problems, and material short...
Author: Philip Kirby ISBN: 1482228955 / 9781482228953 Year: 2015 Availability: In Stock
This book covers the downside of old thoughtware and the upside of new thoughtware. It sets out the principles on which thoughtware operates, describes its application at every level of work, and ex...
Author: Jennifer S. King, Peter L. King ISBN: 0367351293 / 9780367351298 Year: 2019 Availability: In Stock
The product wheel (PW) design process has practical methods for finding the optimum sequence, therefore minimizing changeover costs and freeing up useful capacity. This book describes this proven te...
Author: Susan M. Houston ISBN: 103207387X / 9781032073873 Year: 2021 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
This book focuses on providing information on project management specific for software implementations within the healthcare industry. It can be used as a guide for beginners as well as a reference ...
Author: Chris A. Ortiz ISBN: 143987879X / 9781439878798 Year: 2012 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
The inherent fear and reluctance of many companies to embark on a Lean journey can be self-destructive. This book explores the psychology behind why so many companies avoid Lean and hold on to ineff...
Author: Matthew A. Barsalou ISBN: 1498745741 / 9781498745741 Year: 2016 Availability: In Stock
The Quality Improvement Field Guide: Achieving and Maintaining Value in Your Organization covers the key aspects that quality professionals must know to attain mastery in their field. After reading ...
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...
Author: Ted Hutchin ISBN: 1439886210 / 9781439886212 Year: 2012 Availability: In Stock
The need for competent leadership remains one of the most pressing issues facing organizations. Introducing a powerful technique to help readers become better decision makers, The Right Choice: Usin...
Author: Max Ammerman ISBN: 0527763268 / 9780527763268 Year: 1998 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
The answer is root cause analysis, a process that allows you to find the cause of single events/problems in the workplace. The Root Cause Analysis Handbook presents a walkthrough example that illust...
Author: Shigeo Shingo ISBN: 1563273845 / 9781563273841 Year: 2012 Availability: In Stock
Here is a great introduction to the remarkable mind of Shigeo Shingo, indisputably one of the great forces in manufacturing. In this book Dr. Shingo describes his approach to manufacturing improveme...
Author: Bob Sproull ISBN: 0367410524 / 9780367410520 Year: 2020 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
This book fully details, as the title suggests, the real secret to maximizing an organization's profitability. While many companies have implemented improvement initiatives such as Six Sigma and Lea...
Author: Dan Prock ISBN: 0367370700 / 9780367370701 Year: 2021 Availability: In Stock
The Sensei Way at Work follows in the wake of dozens of successful business books on the Toyota production system, lean enterprise, and the Toyota Way, yet it is unique. It identifies the five keys ...
Author: Jeffrey T. Bell, Scott A. Martin, Timothy D. Martin ISBN: 1498752012 / 9781498752015 Year: 2016 Availability: In Stock
This field guide can be used directly on the gemba (work area) for implementing and documenting standardized work. It promotes the "future state" of standardized work along with crucial step-by-step...
Author: Daniel Borris, Steven Borris ISBN: 1482299038 / 9781482299038 Year: 2015 Availability: In Stock
Improvement techniques are like spices: better when blended. Many organizations seem to lose sight of the techniques that still work in addition to Lean & Six Sigma and TPM. This book is a collectio...
Author: Nikolay Anguelov ISBN: 0367720736 / 9780367720735 Year: 2021 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
When thinking about lowering or changing consumption to lower carbon footprints, the obvious offenders come easily to mind: petroleum and petroleum products, paper and plastic, even food, but not cl...
Author: Suresh Patel ISBN: 1498745385 / 9781498745383 Year: 2016 Availability: In Stock
Books in the Quality and Business Excellence series can help readers enhance customer value and satisfaction by integrating the customer’s voice into design, manufacturing, supply chain, and f...
Author: Daniel Bloom ISBN: 0367139154 / 9780367139155 Year: 2024 Availability: Out of Stock
This book provides a roadmap for implementing a powerful technique will reduce waste and accelerate flow within a process -- The TLS Continuum methodology.
The letters TLS stand for the three com...
Author: John Stewart ISBN: 1439846049 / 9781439846049 Year: 2012 Availability: In Stock
Written by a recognized leader in the manufacturing industry with nearly two decades of experience working for Toyota, this book supplies a firsthand account of the realities behind implementing the...
Author: Yoshihito Wakamatsu ISBN: 0815347863 / 9780815347866 Year: 2018 Availability: In Stock
From the brilliant mind of a legend in the LEAN Manufacturing world comes the reasoning behind the importance of using your intellect, challenging your workers and why continuous improvement is not ...
Author: James Morgan, Jeffrey Liker ISBN: 1563272822 / 9781563272820 Year: 2015 Availability: In Stock
The ability to bring new and innovative products to market rapidly is the prime critical competence for any successful consumer-driven company. All industries, especially automotive, are slashing pr...
Author: Phillip Ledbetter ISBN: 1138578711 / 9781138578715 Year: 2018 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Many current companies are in a similar position to Toyota prior to development of the Toyota Production System regarding efficiency and culture. Many are attempting to implement a Lean system, but ...
