Author: William A. Levinson ISBN: 1563272601 / 9781563272608 Year: 2002 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Japanese manufacturers have made concepts like kaizen (continuous improvement), poka-yoke (error-proofing), and just-in-time famous. When the Japanese began to adopt these techniques from the Ford M...
Author: William A. Levinson ISBN: 1563273705 / 9781563273704 Year: 2007 Availability: In Stock
The basic principle of the Theory of Constraints (TOC) is the impossibility of running a balanced factory at 100 percent capacity. Variation in processing and material transfer times is the root cau...
Author: William A. Levinson ISBN: 1439820007 / 9781439820001 Year: 2011 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
The normal or bell curve distribution is far more common in statistics textbooks than it is in real factories, where processes follow non-normal and often highly skewed distributions. Statistical Pr...
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: Henry Ford, Samuel Crowther, William A. Levinson ISBN: 1466557710 / 9781466557710 Availability: In Stock
Henry Ford's industrial innovations were directly responsible for the transformation of the United States into the most productive, affluent, and powerful nation on Earth. My Life and Work describes...