Turbulence : Boeing and the State of American Workers and Managers
ISBN: 9780300154610 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This timely book investigates the experiences of employees at all levels of Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) during a ten-year period of dramatic organizational change. As Boeing transformed itself, workers and managers contended with repeated downsizing, shifting corporate culture, new roles for women, outsourcing, mergers, lean production, and rampant technological change. Drawing on a unique blend of quantitative and qualitative research, the authors consider how management strategies affected the well-being of Boeing employees, as well as their attitudes toward their jobs and their... This timely book investigates the experiences of employees at all levels of Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) during a ten-year period of dramatic ... |
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320,04 zł |
Supply Chain Cost Management: The Aim and Drive Process for Achieving Extraordinary Results
ISBN: 9780814417423 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For most supply chains, cost reduction is imperative to long-term survival. Yet identifying the costs that can be eliminated--and then doing so effectively--can prove impossible without the right method. This book introduces the same process the author has used to save companies like IBM, Kodak, and DuPont billions of dollars, simply by harnessing the knowledge of suppliers. Using real-life case studies and examples, the book takes readers step-by-step through the process, showing them how to move beyond negotiation and: - identify critical costs in the supply chain - measure... For most supply chains, cost reduction is imperative to long-term survival. Yet identifying the costs that can be eliminated--and then doing so ef... |
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150,10 zł |
Tredegar Iron Works: Richmond's Foundry on the James
ISBN: 9781540203014 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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137,38 zł |
# Standards Tweet Book01: 140 Bite-Sized Ideas for Winning the Industry Standards Game
ISBN: 9781616990145 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It's true. Creating industry standards is a game. To be successful at it, you must be cooperative as well as competitive, proactive as well as instinctive, technical as well as practical. You've got to know the rules of the game as well as various strategies for winning it. Which is why standards veteran and blogger Karen Bartleson wrote '#STANDARDStweet Book01, ' the must-have playbook for industry standards leaders and followers.
In 140 bite-sized insights, Bartleson illuminates the standards game for readers by providing an understanding of what standards are and why they are... It's true. Creating industry standards is a game. To be successful at it, you must be cooperative as well as competitive, proactive as well as instinc...
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85,68 zł |
The Most They Ever Had
ISBN: 9780817356835 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the spring of 2001, a community of people in the Appalachian foothills of northern Alabama had come to the edge of all they had ever known. Across the South, padlocks and logging chains bound the doors of silent mills, and it seemed a miracle to blue-collar people in Jacksonville that their mill still bit, shook, and roared. The century-old hardwood floors still trembled under whirling steel, and people worked on, in a mist of white air. The mill had become almost a living thing, rewarding the hardworking and careful with the best payday they ever had, but punishing the careless and...
In the spring of 2001, a community of people in the Appalachian foothills of northern Alabama had come to the edge of all they had ever known. Across ...
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68,50 zł |
Turbulence: Boeing and the State of American Workers and Managers
ISBN: 9780300177565 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This timely book investigates the experiences of employees at all levels of Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) during a ten-year period of dramatic organizational change. As Boeing transformed itself, workers and managers contended with repeated downsizing, shifting corporate culture, new roles for women, outsourcing, mergers, lean production, and rampant technological change. Drawing on a unique blend of quantitative and qualitative research, the authors consider how management strategies affected the well-being of Boeing employees, as well as their attitudes toward their jobs and their... This timely book investigates the experiences of employees at all levels of Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) during a ten-year period of dramatic ... |
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282,87 zł |
The Lockheed Plant
ISBN: 9780738587967 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Lockheed Plant in Marietta has been building many of the world s most legendary aircraft for the past 60 years and that doesn t even count its service building B-29 bombers for the Bell Aircraft Company during World War II. Lockheed s six decades have seen the plant build jet bombers, like the B-47 Stratojet; the world s most dominant fighter jet (the F-22 Raptor); and the most vaunted cargo planes (C-130 Hercules, C-141 StarLifter, and C-5 Galaxy). In Images of America: The Lockheed Plant, readers will learn about those planes, the people who designed and assembled them, and the plant in...
The Lockheed Plant in Marietta has been building many of the world s most legendary aircraft for the past 60 years and that doesn t even count its ser...
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94,44 zł |
Keeping Your Business in the U.S.A.: Profit Globally While Operating Locally
ISBN: 9781439807781 / Angielski / Twarda / 135 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here to bring back the pride, confidence, and jobs that "Made in the U.S.A." once generated--Keeping Your Business in the U.S.A.: Profit Globally While Operating Locally shows American enterprises how to survive and prosper while keeping their manufacturing base within the United States. It tells the stories of three manufacturing companies that have been able to buck the outsourcing trend and achieve overwhelming success while keeping jobs in the States. Using case studies, the book illustrates each company's story from the day it started. It examines the successes,...Here to bring back the pride, confidence, and jobs that "Made in the U.S.A." once generated--Keeping Your Business in the U.S.A.: Profit Gl... |
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222,92 zł |
Make It in America: The Case for Re-Inventing the Economy
ISBN: 9781118199626 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The case for revolutionizing the U.S. economy, from a leading CEO
America used to define itself by the things we built. We designed and produced the world's most important innovations, and in doing so, created a vibrant manufacturing sector that established the middle class. We manufactured our way to the top and became the undisputed economic leader of the world. But over the last several decades, and especially in the last ten years, the sector that was America's great pride has eroded, costing us millions of jobs and putting our long-term prosperity at risk. Now, as we struggle... The case for revolutionizing the U.S. economy, from a leading CEO
America used to define itself by the things we built. We designed and prod... |
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79,96 zł |
Light Manufacturing in Africa
ISBN: 9780821389614 / Angielski / Miękka / 161 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines how light manufacturing can offer a viable solution for Sub-Saharan Africa's need for structural transformation and productive job creation, given its potential competitiveness based on low wage costs and an abundance of natural resources that supply raw materials needed for industries. Based on five different analytical tools and data sources, the book examines in detail the binding constraints in each of the subsectors relevant for Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): apparel, leather goods, metal products, agribusiness, and wood products. Ethiopia is used as an example, with...
This book examines how light manufacturing can offer a viable solution for Sub-Saharan Africa's need for structural transformation and productive job ...
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186,67 zł |
Accidents: Causes, Investigation and Prevention
ISBN: 9781845495084 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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145,65 zł |
Streamline Your Manufacturing Processes with Openerp
ISBN: 9782960087635 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Simple Approach to Manage the Manufacturing and Supply Chain Complexity. Do you dream of the perfect manufacturing organization? In this company your Manufacturing application sustains your evolving manufacturing strategies. The Sales, purchase and manufacturing department strongly interact to optimise to a maximum your organization. Through efficient scheduling or JIT management, manufacturing and procurement can easily be organised to avoid shortages. The advanced routes option allows you to manage complex routes within and between locations. Real-time dashboards display up-to-date...
A Simple Approach to Manage the Manufacturing and Supply Chain Complexity. Do you dream of the perfect manufacturing organization? In this company you...
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163,19 zł |
The Principles of Scientific Management, by Frederick Taylor
ISBN: 9781897363898 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Read the American classic that inspired Shigeo Shingo Frederick W. Taylor's The Principles of Scientific Managementwas a mental revolution that spawned the very ideas of process improvement, equity and efficiency between workers and management, and the attainability of high production with low labor costs. Taylor discusses eliminating waste by using the system he developed over the course of his career and how it applies to individual, as well as collective, improvement initiatives. As the basis of modern organizational efficiency, this instrumental book has motivated managers... Read the American classic that inspired Shigeo Shingo Frederick W. Taylor's The Principles of Scientific Managementwas a mental revolutio... |
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96,23 zł |
Health and Safety in Construction: Guidance for Construction Professionals
ISBN: 9780727731180 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. All civil engineers and construction professionals concerned with the construction process have both professional and legal duties to take care, not only of their own health and safety at work, but the health and safety of others who might be put at risk.Health and Safety in Construction offers clear guidance on the responsibilities of construction professionals for health and safety in construction. Construction professionals need to work together to ensure consistently high standards and this essential guide will help achieve a measured and effective response to this challenge.
All civil engineers and construction professionals concerned with the construction process have both professional and legal duties to take care, not o...
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218,69 zł |
Delaware Beer: The Story of Brewing in the First State
ISBN: 9781540203106 / Angielski / Twarda / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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137,38 zł |
Advances in Brazing: Science, Technology and Applications
ISBN: 9780857094230 / Angielski / Twarda / 600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brazing processes offer enhanced control, adaptability and cost-efficiency in the joining of materials. Unsurprisingly, this has lead to great interest and investment in the area. Drawing on important research in the field, Advances in brazing provides a clear guide to the principles, materials, methods and key applications of brazing. Part one introduces the fundamentals of brazing, including molten metal wetting processes, strength and margins of safety of brazed joints, and modeling of associated physical phenomena. Part two goes on to consider specific materials, such as super alloys,...
Brazing processes offer enhanced control, adaptability and cost-efficiency in the joining of materials. Unsurprisingly, this has lead to great interes...
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1038,80 zł |
Iron Valley: The Transformation of the Iron Industry in Ohio's Mahoning Valley, 1802-1913
ISBN: 9780814253762 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Youngstown, Ohio, and the surrounding Mahoning Valley supplied the iron that helped transform the United States into an industrial powerhouse in the nineteenth century. The story of the Mahoning Valley's unorthodox rise from mid-scale iron producer to twentieth-century "Steel Valley" is a tale of innovation, stagnation, and, above all, extreme change. Located halfway between Pittsburgh and Cleveland, the Mahoning Valley became a major supplier of pig iron to America's biggest industrial regions. For much of the nineteenth century, outside consumers relied on the Valley's pig iron, but this... Youngstown, Ohio, and the surrounding Mahoning Valley supplied the iron that helped transform the United States into an industrial powerhouse in th... |
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128,63 zł |
Lean Evolution: Lessons from the Workplace
ISBN: 9781107407190 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lean thinking is a powerful method that allows organizations to improve the productivity, efficiency and quality of their products or services. Achieving these benefits requires good teamwork, clear communication, intelligent use of resources and a commitment to continuous improvement. This book shows how lean thinking can be applied in practice, highlighting the key challenges and pitfalls. The authors, based at a leading centre for lean enterprise research, begin with an overview of the theory of lean thinking. They then explain the core tools and techniques and show how they can be applied...
Lean thinking is a powerful method that allows organizations to improve the productivity, efficiency and quality of their products or services. Achiev...
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298,92 zł |
Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution
ISBN: 9780520275829 / Angielski / Miękka / 446 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Deceit and Denial details the attempts by the chemical and lead industries to deceive Americans about the dangers that their deadly products present to workers, the public, and consumers. Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner pursued evidence steadily and relentlessly, interviewed the important players, investigated untapped sources, and uncovered a bruising story of cynical and cruel disregard for health and human rights. This resulting expose is full of startling revelations, provocative arguments, and disturbing conclusions--all based on remarkable research and information gleaned from...
Deceit and Denial details the attempts by the chemical and lead industries to deceive Americans about the dangers that their deadly products pr...
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160,02 zł |
The American Steel Industry, 1850-1970: A Geographical Interpretation
ISBN: 9780822986027 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A richly detailed account of the American steel industry from its beginnings until 1970, when its long period of international leadership was challenged, this book interprets steel from the viewpoints of historical and economic geography. It considers both physical factors, such as resources, and human factors such as market, organization, and governmental policy.
A richly detailed account of the American steel industry from its beginnings until 1970, when its long period of international leadership was challeng...
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228,03 zł |