Author: Frank Voehl, H. James Harrington ISBN: 1032537701 / 9781032537702 Year: 2024 Availability: 15-30 days
The objective of the ISO 56002 standard is to provide a framework on how to build an innovation ecosystem that can be sustained over time. Similar to the quality management system that ISO establish...
Author: Jerry L. Harbour ISBN: 1466571349 / 9781466571341 Year: 2013 Availability: In Stock
Mapping and measuring techniques are particularly useful when determining how something‘flows’ through time and space. Yet systems and their associated processes occur over widely varyin...
Author: Naida Grunden ISBN: 1563273675 / 9781563273674 Year: 2007 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
America’s healthcare system needs to change. Not only does our country spend 16 percent of its gross domestic product on healthcare, but despite spending more than other industrialized countri...
Author: Mark Graham Brown ISBN: 1482205270 / 9781482205275 Year: 2013 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Updated yearly to match changing requirements, this guide is designed to help you understand the criteria for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. The Baldrige criteria are being used by tho...
Author: Robert W. Pryor, Steve Hoeft ISBN: 1498707408 / 9781498707404 Year: 2016 Availability: In Stock
Many companies conduct Lean training and projects, but few have tapped the wealth of ideas in the minds of their staff like Baylor Scott & White Health. This book documents the path Steve Hoeft and ...
Author: Natasha Bowman ISBN: 1032210591 / 9781032210599 Year: 2022 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Praise for the Power of One. Every leader is focused on how to embrace the significant shifts happening in the workplace and in society at large, which are impacting the future of work and the way w...
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...