Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Quality Control

With deregulation, the vast pool of power customers is up for grabs. As a utility, are you ready to compete? As a customer, are you ready to choose? In Power Quality Primer, Barry Kennedy gives you specifically designed, ahead-of-the-curve methods. Utilities will learn how to:
Plan successful competitive strategies for every aspect of the business
Market proactive solutions to customers before needs arise
Improve transmission and distribution system quality, efficiency, and power factor performance
Eliminate technical problems such...

As industries adopt consumer-focused product development strategies, they should offer broader product ranges in shorter design times and the processes that can manufacture in arbitrary lot sizes. In addition, they would need to apply state-of-the-art methods and tools to easily conduct early product design and development trade-off analysis among competing objectives. Methods in Product Design: New Strategies in Reengineering supplies insights into the methods and techniques that enable implementing a consumer-focused product design philosophy by integrating design and development...

While it is a given that most Lean companies adopt methods to standardize cyclical activities, they often fail to apply the same rigor to noncyclical work, believing that it cannot be measured. Standardized Work for Noncyclical Processes cuts to the core of this mistaken belief and shows you how to measure nonrepeating job processes and eliminate waste associated with noncyclical activities.

Taking a hands-on approach reflective of his time as an operator on the line, Joseph Niederstadt lays out the methods he has instituted successfully in more...

Toyota Kaizen Methods: Six Steps to Improvement focuses on the skills and techniques practiced inside Toyota Motor Corporation during the past decades. This workbook focuses on the actual training course concepts and methods used by Toyota to develop employee skill level, a core element of Toyota's success. It is not a book about holding Western-style five-day Kaizen events, which were in reality quite rare during the development of Toyota's production system and are virtually nonexistent today inside Toyota. Written by two of Toyota's most revered and experienced...

Explanations of theory, lists of rules, and discussions of procedure are the basis of learning the lean Six Sigma, however without a visceral understanding of the application of this powerful system in various circumstances the knowledge remains, at best, conjecture. Detailed examination of case studies that take real-world variables into account is the only way to truly master Lean Six Sigma.

Providing a comprehensive Lean Six Sigma case study from start to finish, Implementing Lean Six Sigma throughout the Supply Chain: The Comprehensive and Transparent Case Study...

Featuring strategies employed in Lean, this volume describes the experiences of organizations using TWI more than 60 years after the Training Within Industry program turned the U.S. into the industrial giant that won World War II. Based on their experience implementing TWI in organizations as diverse as Virginia Mason Medical Center and Donnelly Manufacturing, Shingo Prize Winners Patrick Graupp and Robert Wrona prove why many consider them the most successful TWI trainers in the world.

Their hands-on manual provides the tools and templates that can turn your company's employees...

Make Your Business a Lean Business is a written by business leaders for business leaders as a how to guide to building enduring market leadership. Based on the authors more than 60 years experience applying Lean to operations and businesses, this book will allow readers to understand Lean principles and apply practices to transform their business. Readers will be able follow a logical path aligning their business from strategy to every detailed activity and engaging their entire organization in contributing to becoming more competitive day be day. It is the only...

Wie lassen sich die Vorteile von Lean Management mit den Wirkungen von Six Sigma kombinieren? Als Antwort auf diese Frage bietet das Buch ein breites Spektrum konzeptioneller Ansatze aus wissenschaftlicher Sicht und vor allem Umsetzungsbeispiele aus der Unternehmenspraxis. Die Beitrage behandeln u. a. die Wertstrom-Analyse, Lean Manufacturing in der Chip-Produktion, Lean-Konzepte im Bereich Aerospace sowie die Analyse der Auswirkungen bei der Einfuhrung von Lean Six Sigma.

Presenting an alternate approach to supply chain management, Lean Supply Chain Management Essentials: A Framework for Materials Managers explains why the traditional materials planning environment, typically embodied by an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, is an ineffective support system for a company that wants to adopt Lean practices. It begins by defining supply chain management basics, including roles, objectives, and responsibilities from a traditional framework. Next, it describes Lean basics and explores the conflicts between Lean and the traditional...