Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Industries - Manufacturing

Suggested textbook for "The 3D Printing Revolution" Coursera course offered by the University of Illinois Champagne-Urbana.

In 3D Printing Will Rock the World, author John Hornick presents an insightful look at how 3D printing could potentially change the planet. 3DPrintingIndustry.com said "John Hornick's '3D Printing Will Rock the World' Rocks." 3DPrintingStocks.com called it a "must read." Professor Aric Rindfleisch, who teaches the Coursera course, calls it "the best book about 3D Printing available today " To see...

Steel companies were at the birth of the modern business corporation. The first billion dollar corporation ever formed was U.S. Steel in 1901. By the mid-twentieth century the steel mill and the automobile plant were the two pillars upon which the twentieth century industrial economy rested.

Given the scale of capital and operations, vertical integration was seen to be pivotal, from the raw materials of iron ore and coal on one end of the supply chain to the myriad of finished products on the other. By the end of the twentieth century, however, things had dramatically...

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.