Author: JIPM ISBN: 156327079X / 9781563270796 Year: 2022 Availability: In Stock
TPM involves employees companywide in preventing equipment abnormalities and breakdowns. The first line of defense: equipment operators-the people most familar with daily operating conditions. In ad...
Author: Kiyoshi Uchimaru, Susumu Okamoto ISBN: 1563270056 / 9781563270055 Year: 1993 Availability: Out of Stock
Achieving total quality in product design and development is a daunting but essential goal for technical personnel. Much of what has been written about the tools and practice of total quality manage...
Author: Donald Dinero ISBN: 1563273071 / 9781563273070 Availability: In Stock
Training Within Industry, by Donald Dinero, explores a crucial piece of a Lean initiative that has been overlooked throughout U.S. industry. The Training Within Industry (TWI) program — develo...
Author: Muhammad Mashhood Alam ISBN: 1138577596 / 9781138577596 Year: 2018 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
We are living in fascinating times, when the power of technology is not just reshaping, but is transforming the globe in unprecedented ways. These include the ability to connect with anyone across t...
Author: Charles Kenney ISBN: 1563273756 / 9781563273759 Year: 2010 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
For decades, the manufacturing industry has employed the Toyota Production System — the most powerful production method in the world — to reduce waste, improve quality, reduce defects an...
Author: James E. Luckman, Olga Flory ISBN: 0367139308 / 9780367139308 Year: 2019 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
This book provides a comparison of two contrasting paradigms that influence – positively or negatively -- the ability of leaders and their organizations to solve complex business problems. The...
Author: George Shinkle, Reb Gooding ISBN: 1563272997 / 9781563272998 Year: 2004 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks.
The authors provide a practical and comprehensive approach to implementing strategic intent in organizations through the use of lean management systems, strategic planning, lean enterprise managemen...
Author: Collin McLoughlin, Toshihiko Miura ISBN: 1138745421 / 9781138745421 Year: 2017 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
What does it take to manage an organization to success? No matter what industry you are in, an organization is primarily a group of people. This book focuses on that ever-important human element. In...
Author: Robyn Rooks, Tim Conrad ISBN: 1439820678 / 9781439820674 Year: 2011 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
A Plan for Every Part (PFEP) is all about determining the right part at the right time, in the quantity needed. Turbo Flow: Using Plan for Every Part (PFEP) to Turbo Charge Your Supply Chain explain...
Author: Art Smalley, Durward K. Sobek II ISBN: 1138036110 / 9781138036116 Year: 2023 Availability: In Stock
Notably flexible and brief, the A3 report has proven to be a key tool In Toyota’s successful move toward organizational efficiency, effectiveness, and improvement, especially within its engine...
Author: Jeanne Wendel, Teresa D. Serratt, William O'Donohue ISBN: 1032095970 / 9781032095974 Year: 2021 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Healthcare economics is a topic of increasing importance due to the substantial changes that are expected to radically alter the way Americans obtain and finance healthcare. Understanding Healthcare...
Author: Ross Kenneth Kennedy ISBN: 1138589284 / 9781138589285 Year: 2019 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Understanding, Measuring, and Improving Daily Management explains the critical parts of a continuous improvement strategy to achieve Operational Excellence and where reactive improvement through eff...
Author: Ross Kenneth Kennedy ISBN: 1138054208 / 9781138054202 Year: 2017 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Understanding, Measuring, and Improving Overall Equipment Effectiveness: How to Use OEE to Drive Significant Process Improvement explains why the Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) measure was cr...
Author: Dan McDonnell, Drew A. Locher ISBN: 1439886121 / 9781439886120 Year: 2013 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
A guide for Production Preparation Process (3P) execution, this book presents a step-by-step methodology for successful implementation of even the most aggressive corporate change programs. The auth...
Author: Gregory C. McLaughlin, Suzanne Richins ISBN: 1482239809 / 9781482239805 Year: 2014 Availability: Out of Stock
Outlining the critical need to apply innovation to reduce costs and improve efficiency in the healthcare industry, Unlocking Sustained Innovation Success in Healthcare explains why innovation manage...
Author: Ovidiu Contras ISBN: 0367505665 / 9780367505660 Year: 2022 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
The standard belief in books about the Lean initiatives and value stream mapping (VSM) is that VSM works well on transactional processes (which are primarily linear processes where hand-offs are wel...
Author: James V. Reyes-Picknell, John D. Campbell ISBN: 1482252376 / 9781482252378 Year: 2016 Availability: In Stock
Uptime describes the combination of activities that deliver fewer breakdowns, improved productive capacity, lower costs, and better environmental performance. The bestselling second edition of Uptim...
Author: Anthony Matthew Hopper ISBN: 148222397X / 9781482223972 Year: 2016 Availability: In Stock
Healthcare organizations with sound human resources (HR) infrastructures are better able to hire, develop, promote, and retain employees who match up well with their specific needs. Using Data Manag...
Author: Elizabeth A Cudney ISBN: 1420084232 / 9781420084238 Availability: In Stock
In Using Hoshin Kanri to Improve the Value Stream, leading lean and quality expert Elizabeth Cudney constructs a complete how-to guide that any organization can employ to start a Lean effort correct...
Author: Mark Nash, Sheila R. Poling, Sophronia Ward ISBN: 1563273438 / 9781563273438 Year: 2006 Availability: In Stock
In Using Lean for Faster Six Sigma Results, Mark Nash, Sheila Poling, and Sophronia Ward lay out the differences between Lean and Six Sigma, define the distinct power and focus of each, and detail w...
Author: Richard Morrow ISBN: 1439895600 / 9781439895603 Year: 2012 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Why is it that some improvement efforts succeed while others fail despite robust change management programs and the often do-or-die pressure to improve? Quite simply, there are three elements that s...
Author: Richard Morrow ISBN: 143989535X / 9781439895351 Year: 2012 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Leading change in the right direction and sustaining that change is extremely difficult without managing the relevant measures, especially in today's healthcare environment. This book details how to...
Author: Heather Woodward-Hagg, Kathryn Trauth Taylor, Robin R. Hemphill ISBN: 1498768903 / 9781498768900 Year: 2018 Availability: Out of Stock
This book provides insight into the initial deployment of a Lean Management System across VA, the nation's largest healthcare system. The book presents the origins of VA's Lean Enterprise Transforma...
Author: Grace L. Duffy, Yves Van Nuland ISBN: 0367443910 / 9780367443917 Year: 2020 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Sharing Best Practices across industries and functions is an accepted approach to continuous improvement. The Benchmarking trend of the 1990s has evolved with the help of competitive analysis, perfo...
Author: Abate O. Kassa ISBN: 1498737250 / 9781498737258 Year: 2016 Availability: In Stock
Thought leader Abate Kassa finds the U.S. government’s arbitrary cost-cutting directives of austerity measures or sequestration as a perfect example of moving in the wrong direction. Their sys...
