Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Industries - Manufacturing

Picking up where Dr. Shingo's Single Minute Exchange of Die left off, this book streamlines the process even further to reduce changeover time, while simultaneously cutting staffing requirements in half. To instruct on how to achieve quick changeover in virtually any type of production environment, the book includes--

The book begins by outlining the tactical principles for improving the three phases of...

This book outlines the history of gunpowder manufacture from its development as a propellant in the fourteenth century to its eclipse by high explosives. A number of gunpowder mills can still be identified and some are now preserved and interpreted for the visitor.

The first edition of Brian Maskell s now classic work proved that when given the chance, accountants would prefer not to serve out their working days as number crunching automatons. With its energetic tone and common sense approach, the book inspired numbers people at all levels to become true allies in their companies lean revolutions. It encouraged new directions for both management and financial accounting, and helped provide impetus for the lean accounting movement that continues to find adherents in companies small and large today.

With the second edition of...

This is the Participant Guide to support team leaders in implementing an autonomous maintenance team.

This is the Facilitator's Guide to support team leaders in facilitating a 5S implementation team.

This is the Participant Guide that summarizes key concepts from the video, provides reflection exercises for internalizing information as well as worksheets and checksheets to guide participants during implementation work on the floor. This is usually sold with The 5S System: Workplace Organization and Standardization

This book provides a basic outline of the history of the American steel industry, a sector of the economy that has been an important part of the industrial system. The book starts with the 1830's, when the American iron and steel industry resembled the traditional iron producing sector that had existed in the old world for centuries, and it ends in 2001. The product of this industry, steel, is an alloy of iron and carbon that has become the most used metal in the world. The very size of the steel industry and its position in the modern economy give it an unusual relevance to the economic,...