Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Industries - Manufacturing

Current organizations underperform due to silo thinking. Artificial barriers frustrate efforts and perpetuate an organizational model no longer adequate for the complexity of the current business world. Leaders and managers must acquire a whole-system perspective for their organizations to be sustainable. This book provides the overview, knowledge and tools to create a practical shift for 21st century management. The "Theory of everything" for management; an evolved and more scientific Fifth Discipline plus field book for contemporary managers. It follows on from Deming and...

The industrial revolution, mechanization, water and steam power, computers, and automation have given an enormous boost to manufacturing productivity. "Faster, Better, Cheaper" in the History of Manufacturing shows how the ability to make products faster, better, and cheaper has evolved from the stone age to modern times. It explains how different developments over time have raised efficiency and allowed the production of more and better products with less effort and materials, and hence faster, better, and cheaper. In addition, it describes the stories of inventors,...

Many manufacturing, distribution, retail, and healthcare sites that deal with material as an integral part of their business have a goal to reduce inventory by 20% or more. Yet they have no idea how to accomplish that. Some are nervous about the consequences for customer delivery if they randomly reduce on-hand balances, while...

When capital projects fail to deliver, it is usually not due to technical reasons but a combination of behavioral pitfalls, unclear accountabilities and gaps in design, specification, and/or project-management processes.

Early Equipment Management (EEM): Continuous Improvement for Projects explains how well known and award winning organizations avoid these weaknesses by using:

• Project road maps setting out clear accountabilities for each step of the concept-to-project-delivery process;
• Progressive design goals for each step to assure...

Enna's 5S Facilitator Guide is designed with the worker in mind and for performance of the workshop in-house. When it comes to managing sustainable change within your organization effective communication and training are paramount. The key to sustainable success in a 5S program is having the ability to train and conduct 5S workshops internally. For this to take place, internal trainers require a practical and information rich guide to maximize their efforts.

TPM Training Package is a system that focuses your energies on eliminating down-time and unexpected losses in order to bring your productivity to world-class standards. Ennaa (TM)s TPM implementation and training package will allow you to institute a robust system that focuses on standardizing practices and reducing your maintenance needs. Your employees will develop a customized Total Productive Maintenance system based upon the tools that they learn throughout the workshop, leading your organization to increased productivity and the elimination of unplanned downtime.

Lean organizations know that for a 5S program to be successful there needs to be implementation throughout all areas of the business. Marketing, design, accounting, engineering, and other departments benefit from 5S just as much as the shop floor. Enna understands the importance and difficulties of transferring a 5S program to the worker so we have developed a solution for companies wishing to begin or sustain a 5S office program.

This form is used to document and track observations during the analysis of a specific task. The form has four observation columns and a separate column to average those observations.

Much like the Distance and Task Chart, this form allows participants to track work times to create detailed time graphs for any specific product and process.

Using the poster hanging system ensures that posters are hung correctly without the damage that results from conventional tacks or tape. Additionally, the added weight from the bottom rail ensures proper hanging posture.