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As a pioneer in Lean improvement methods, Jim Martin was among the first to suggest that truly successful Lean initiatives are those applied across every facet of an organization, not just on the shop floor. Building on this concept, Martin demonstrates that one of the most effective ways to implement operational improvements across an organization is to approach it through the resource that permeates every facet of a modern organization--information technology.

Measuring and Improving Performance: Information Technology Applications in Lean Systems...

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 correctly and keep it on track. Rooted in practical examples garnered over years of hand-on practice, she illustrates the key principles of lean and value, and then shows you how to put them to work.

Cudney points out that organizations often fail at improvement because they go after symptomatic problems rather than the faulty system-wide processes at...

Please update ISBN's on OBC and imprint pages: C 978-0-8039-7746-4 P 978-0-8039-7747-1

A fully revised and extended version of the bestselling "Quality 75," this book includes a full range of Six SIGMA tools and philosophy.

Fast track route to mastering quality management

Covers the key areas of quality management, from understanding the vital connections between customers and ISO 9000-2000 to the key steps to develop a practical, performance enhancing quality management process

Examples and lessons from some of the world's most successful businesses, including Toyota, Solectron Technology, Sun Microsystems, Sundaram-Clayton, and Prudential Assurance Company, and ideas from the smartest thinkers, including W. Edwards Deming, Philip Crosby, Genichi Taguchi, Shigeo Shingo, and Dr. A.V. Feigenbaum

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For Future Leaders in Safety and Engineering

You've chosen to become a leader in occupational health and safety. Practical Leadership Skills for Safety Professionals and Project Engineers can show you how. Purposely oriented toward the art and science of leadership, this book is designed to provide insight and outline development techniques for the budding young professional. Aimed squarely at college students and early career professionals, it parallels the steps that a student or recent graduate needs to take (from pre-professional to...

Management is a powerful mode of thought and code of conduct in the modern world, closely associated with the American way and a natural extension of economic progress. This is a book about the history of management and the origin of managerial rationality in the United States.

The one manual that every corporate executive should read again and again re-released for the first time in an affordable paperback version

Known as the JIT bible in Japan, this six-volume set present the genius of Hiroyuki Hirano who leaves no detail to chance in explaining how to implement and maintain a Just-in-Time manufacturing program. Encyclopedic in scope, it provides unparalleled information on every aspect of JIT, from its philosophical underpinnings to the myriad systems, techniques, and tools for virtually every factory...

"It is a book for manufacturing companies that are fighting desperately for survival and that will go to any length to improve their factories and overcome the obstacles to success. One could even call this book a 'bible' for corporate survival."-Hiroyuki Hirano

Known as the JIT bible in Japan, JIT Implementation Manual - The Complete Guide to Just-in-Time Manufacturing presents the genius of Hiroyuki Hirano, a top international consultant with vast experience throughout Asia and the West. Encyclopedic in scope, this...

"It is a book for manufacturing companies that are fighting desperately for survival and that will go to any length to improve their factories and overcome the obstacles to success. One could even call this book a 'bible' for corporate survival."

-Hiroyuki Hirano

Known as the JIT bible in Japan, JIT Implementation Manual - The Complete Guide to Just-in-Time Manufacturing presents the genius of Hiroyuki Hirano, a top international consultant with vast experience throughout Asia and the West. Encyclopedic in scope, this six-volume...

"It is a book for manufacturing companies that are fighting desperately for survival and that will go to any length to improve their factories and overcome the obstacles to success. One could even call this book a 'bible' for corporate survival."-Hiroyuki Hirano

Known as the JIT bible in Japan, JIT Implementation Manual - The Complete Guide to Just-in-Time Manufacturing presents the genius of Hiroyuki Hirano, a top international consultant with vast experience throughout Asia and the West. Encyclopedic in scope, this six-volume practical...

"It is a book for manufacturing companies that are fighting desperately for survival and that will go to any length to improve their factories and overcome the obstacles to success. One could even call this book a 'bible' for corporate survival."

-Hiroyuki Hirano

Known as the JIT bible in Japan, JIT Implementation Manual - The Complete Guide to Just-in-Time Manufacturing presents the genius of Hiroyuki Hirano, a top international consultant with vast experience throughout Asia and the West. Encyclopedic in scope, this six-volume...

"It is a book for manufacturing companies that are fighting desperately for survival and that will go to any length to improve their factories and overcome the obstacles to success. One could even call this book a 'bible' for corporate survival."

-Hiroyuki Hirano

Known as the JIT bible in Japan, JIT Implementation Manual - The Complete Guide to Just-in-Time Manufacturing presents the genius of Hiroyuki Hirano, a top international consultant with vast experience throughout Asia and the West. Encyclopedic in scope, this six-volume...

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Quality improvement: it's an attractive concept on paper. So why do the vast majority of quality improvement efforts fail?
William Roth knows from experience: as a Ph.D in systems theory, an ex-corporate manager, a professor-and the designer (with the AQP) of a national program to deliver training for quality credentials in the systems approach. His belief: enduring quality improvement is an "all or nothing" situation-requiring a systemic approach, with all the key components and integrations in place and fully integrated right from the start.
Quality Improvement: A Systems Perspective...

Don't reinvent the wheel when applying for your ISO 9001 registration or updating to the new 2000 standards. ISO 9001:2000 Document Developm ent Compliance Manual: A Complete Guide and CD-ROM shows you how to de velop and implement a documented quality management system based on IS O 9000 series standards. It supplies ready to use ISO 9001:2000 Templa te Quality Manuals and applicable Standard Operating Procedures with y ear 2000 revisions for documentation management in text and on CD ROM.

Along with globalization, the shift from manufacturing to services as a source of employment, and the spread of information-based systems and technologies have given birth to a new economy which emphasizes flexibility in the labor market and in employment relations. These changes have led to the erosion of the standard (industrial) employment relationship and an increase in precarious work-work which is poorly paid and insecure. Women perform a disproportionate amount of precarious work. This collection of original essays by leading scholars on labor law and women's work explores the...

Through simple, practical approaches, Reliability Analysis and Prediction with Warranty Data: Issues, Strategies, and Methods helps Six Sigma black belts and engineers successfully interpret warranty data to make accurate predictions. It discusses how to use this data to define and analyze field problems, provides guidelines for discovering the root causes for warranty cost reduction, and explores issues associated with warranty data and the approaches to overcome them.

The first part of the book presents an introduction to reliability analysis and...