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Discover the benefits of implementing a continuous improvement program, including lower cost of products, increased prestige in the marketplace, increased productivity through greater efficiency, and opportunities for reduced inventory. You'll learn how to deploy your company resources to maximum efficiency, produce higher quality products, and understand how to correct problems that become obstacles to sustaining profitability. You'll find hundreds of practical new ways to make continuous improvement work, and keep on working: quality management guidelines, quality and productivity improvement ideas, cost reduction tips, continuous process improvement, plus how to use world class techniques such as TPM, TQM, benchmarking, JIT, activity-based costing, improving customer/supplier relationships, and more. You'll also learn from "best practices" examples for quality training, teamwork, empowerment, self-assessment using Baldrige Quality Award criteria, ISO 9000 audits and certification, and more.