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New Manufacturing Challenge: Techniques for Continuous Improvement
Kiyoshi Suzaki Manufacturer: Free Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0029320402 |
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As a consultant, Kiyoshi Suzaki has helped scores of Fortune 500 clients improve manufacturing operations and get the job done faster, cheaper, better, and safer. Now, in this detailed "operating manual" -- full of more step-by-step applications than any other book available -- Suzaki spells out new options in production and employee resources that can help American industry regain the cutting edge in price, quality, and delivery of products.A well-known expert in the field, Suzaki begins with the premise that "if it doesn't add value, it's waste" -- a concept devised by Henry Ford and later used by Toyota. He recaps what Toyota identifies as the seven most prominent forms of waste in factories. Most importantly, he meticulously details steps individuals can take to "simplify, combine, and eliminate operations" -- thereby reducing waste, improving quality, and saving money.
Describing in detail the basic techniques culled from Japanese industrial philosophy and procedure, Suzaki shows how small, family-run businesses and billion-dollar American corporations from a wide range of industries -- automotive, electronics, cosmetics, and even defense contractors -- are meeting the manufacturing challenge today -- demolishing the widely held belief that most American manufacturers have become distribution organizations for products manufactured overseas. In addition, he links his methodology with several successful production systems, from Just-In-Time Production, Total Quality Control, Total Productive Maintenance to Computer Integrated Manufacturing. Throughout this practical handbook, he places emphasis squarely on the shop floor and grounds his approach in easy, yet powerful techniques everybody can understand and implement today.
Illustrated with numerous charts and exhibits, The New Manufacturing Challenge shows how to integrate people and techniques to improve the workplace and, thus, strengthen any company's competitiveness in the global marketplace.
Customer Reviews:
The best introduction to lean.......2004-11-22
The Classic that transcended the time.......2003-08-19
By the way, there is a 3.5hour video correponding to this book still available at SME (Society of Manufacturing Engineers). Read the book, share the examples, confirm the principle, practice the heartbeat of improvement, and keep on moving forward.
Good luck!
Continuous Improvement Principles.......2002-05-23
And still we have more Japanese authors leaching on to varia.......2001-09-30
5 stars plus.......2001-05-17
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New Shop Floor Management: Empowering People for Continuous Improvement
Kiyoshi Suzaki Manufacturer: Free Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0029322650 |
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In this first comprehensive departure from the time-and-motion dictums of Frederick Taylor's Shop Management that have influenced management practices for most of this century, Kiyoshi Suzaki offers a framework for successfully conducting business at its most crucial point-the shop floor. Drawing on the principles of holistic management, where organizational boundaries are smashed and co-destiny is created, Suzaki demonstrates how modern shop floor management techniques -- focusing maximum energy on the front line -- can lead to dramatic improvements in productivity and valueadded-to-services.
The role of management today, Suzaki argues, is to eliminate its own responsibilities by thinking of the organization from the genba, or shop floor, point of view. In this challenge, Suzaki claims, organizations need to collect the wisdom of people by practicing "Glass Wall Management," where organizations become transparent, enabling employees to contribute maximum creativity as opposed to blocking their potential with what he calls "Brick Wall Management." Further, to empower individuals to selfmanage their work and satisfy their customers, Suzaki asserts that they all should learn to manage their own "mini-company," where everybody is considered president of his or her area of responsibility.
Front-line supervisors, Suzaki shows, must develop a mission and goals and share them both up and downstream. He cites examples of the "shop floor point of view" -- McDonald's Corporation's legal staff learning how to sell hamburgers and fix milkshake machines; Honda's human resource staff training on the assembly line -- that narrow the gap between top management and the shop floor. By upgrading people's skills, focusing on empowerment, and streamlining processes, Suzaki illustrates that an organization will realize concrete improvements in quality, cost, delivery, safety, morale, and ultimately, its competitive position.
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I had to grow up to understand...........2006-05-24
Holistic?.......2001-12-04
Book has stood the test of time.......2000-12-09
Just in Demand.......2000-05-23
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Just-in-Time: Making It Happen: Unleashing the Power of Continuous Improvement
William A. Sandras Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0471132667 |
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Based on his extensive experience Sandras reveals a complete procedure for successfully managing all of the challenges and possible obstacles in an actual implementation. Organizing the implementation team, developing a working Kanban system, restructuring the shop floor, creating efficient connections between suppliers and customers, measuring performance and integrating JIT with TQM are among the issues discussed.Customer Reviews:
waste of money.......2005-08-24
A great introduction to JIT world.......2000-08-02
The book is an excellent guide to JIT implementation........1999-05-25
Good, mostly based on real life experiences.......1999-01-23
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World Class Master Scheduling: Best Practices And Lean Six Sigma Continuous Improvement
Donald H. Sheldon Manufacturer: J. Ross Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1932159401 |
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Master scheduling is the heartbeat of every manufacturing and distribution process. In fact, there is no more important process within manufacturing. This up-to-date how-to guide explains how master scheduling integrates with Lean and Six Sigma to create the perfect environment for robust control and continuous improvement. World Class Master Scheduling will help organizations establish rules of engagement and set the stage for maximum effectiveness of both Lean strategies and Six Sigma in the scheduling process. The author describes the need for cooperation with the demand side of the organization and how to achieve high-performance results. This desk reference is a must for operations managers, production supervisors, planners and schedulers, and Lean, Six Sigma and ERP practitioners and consultants.
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Operational Profitability: Systematic Approaches for Continuous Improvement
Robert M. Torok , and Patrick J. Cordon Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0471214736 |
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Add value to services and increase revenue while giving your clients more of what they needOperational Profitability, Second Edition explains in complete detail how to conduct a management audit that will give clients the essential information they need in today's fiercely competitive marketplace. At the same time, it enables CPA firms and CEOs to expand their range of services, strengthen business relationships, and increase profits. This newly updated and revised Second Edition walks you through all the steps of a management audit and explains:
Praise for the First Edition of Operational Profitability...
"A great operating manual for general managers and vice presidents . . . A complete how-to program."
—William Hoban, CEO, Green Bay Drop Forge, Green Bay, Wisconsin
"The most complete profitability program I've seen. The examples and checklists are excellent. It has saved my clients millions."
—Chuck Wadowski, CEO, TMQ Consultants, Detroit, Michigan
"[An] outstanding reference source for the modern manager; very impressive."
—Arnold Bradburd, CEO, Interstate Steel Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
"[Operational Profitability] provides valuable data on operational efficiency and additional service opportunity beyond the usual audit . . . [It] provides the basis of helpful recommendations [and] provides much useful reading guidance for the performance of a management audit."
—Alexander A. H. Bohtling, CPA, CPA Journal
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It doesn't get much better than this !!!.......2002-06-04
Excellent Job--Better than the first edition !!.......2002-06-04
Outstanding Manual for Managers........2002-03-23
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Process Improvement in Quality Management Systems: A case study analyzing Carnegie Mellon's Capability Maturity Model (CMM)
Dr. Walter R. McCollum Manufacturer: Trafford Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 141203650X Release Date: 2006-07-06 |
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A tool for senior managers, program managers, project managers, and decision makers in their effort to establish organizational responsibility for software process activities, and to improve process performance across organizations.
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Competitive Manufacturing Management: Continuous Improvement
John M Nicholas Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill/Irwin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0256217270 |
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This text is developed and written for an intermediate/advanced course in Operations Management or Manufacturing Planning and Control. This course will be found in the better undergraduate programs in the MBA curriculum as an elective, or in Industrial or manufacturing engineering departments. The text will compete indirectly with MRP based books such as Vollmann et al, Fogarty/Hoffman, or McLeavey/Narasimhan in most cases because of the business emphasis, but may also appeal to Nahmias and/or Hopp/Spearman adopters. The CMM text covers all aspects of modern manufacturing management with emphasis on the recent strategic approaches such as JIT and TQM and within a style and level of rigor appropriate for business studentsCustomer Reviews:
Simplified Toyota system of production.......2001-11-24
perfect for deeper understanding of manufacturing.......1999-08-06
It is useful for teachers and managers in manufacturing fields
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Purchasing Strategies for Total Quality: A Guide to Achieving Continuous Improvement (Irwin/Apics Series in Production Management)
Greg Hutchins Manufacturer: Irwin Professional Pub ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1556233809 |
Book Description
Purchasing Strategies for Total Quality details how to purchase competitively priced goods and services in a global marketplace. It teaches you how to develop a customer focus and make quality the driving factor in buying decisions. Hutchins shows readers how to: establish continuous improvement strategies with suppliers; infuse quality throughout an organization and demand the same from product suppliers; build long-term partnering with suppliers to constantly improve the quality of the parts and services received.
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Continuous Improvement in Operations: A Systematic Approach to Waste Reduction (Manufacturing & Production)
Manufacturer: Productivity Press Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0915299518 |
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Access the world's most advanced thinking on JIT, kaizen, TEI, and TPM! A great resouce at a great price, this is an excellent and comprehensive book. If you are interested in continuous improvement, or even just considering what it might do for you this is the resource you need. Here in one volume is a compendium of materials from our best-selling classics by world-famous manufacturing experts.
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Total Quality Management: Three Steps to Continuous Improvement
Arthur R. Tenner , and Irving J. Detoro Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Pub (Sd) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0201563053 |
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