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by Thomas Pyzdek,Paul Keller
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2009
The following is a chapter from the fully updated and revised The Six Sigma Handbook , Third Edition. It covers the management systems and statistical tools that are the foundation of Six Sigma. The book's presentation is based on the DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control) implementation...
Building Moonships
The Grumman Lunar Module
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2004
In 1961, after the United States had acquired a total of fifteen minutes of spaceflight experience, President John F. Kennedy announced his plans for landing a man on the moon by 1970. The space race had begun. In 1962, after a strenuous competition, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
by Derek N. James
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
The Gloster Aircraft Company had its foundation in 1917 and in 1934 the company was taken over by Hawker Aircraft, though it continued to produce aircraft under its own name. In that same year the company produced the famous Gladiator biplane. Having no modern designs of its own in production, Gloster...
Emergency Evacuation Planning for Your Workplace
From Chaos to Life-Saving Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Would your routine office fire drill be able to handle the large-scale chaos of a major disaster? Can you get everyone out safely in the face of a factory fire, explosion, or natural disaster? In Emergency Evacuation Planning for Your Workplace: From Chaos to Life-Saving Solutions, Jim Burtles leads...
by Vijayan Krishnaraj, Redouane Zitoune, J. Paulo Davim
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
This brief focus on drilling of polymer matrix composites for aerospace and defence applications. It gives an introduction to machining of polymer composites and discusses drilling as a processing of composites.
by Colin Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
In the modern era, mass-produced motorcycles tend to be Japanese or Italian, with the big four oriental manufacturers dominating the market. However, this wasn t always the case. Until the 1950s, and even into the 60s, British makers such as Scott, Rudge, BSA, Norton and Vincent ruled the roost. These...
Measurement and Instrumentation
Theory and Application
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Measurement and Instrumentation introduces undergraduate engineering students to the measurement principles and the range of sensors and instruments that are used for measuring physical variables. Based on Morris’s Measurement and Instrumentation Principles, this brand new text has been fully updated...
by Thomas Pyzdek,Paul Keller
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2009
The following is a chapter from the fully updated and revised The Six Sigma Handbook , Third Edition. It covers the management systems and statistical tools that are the foundation of Six Sigma. The book's presentation is based on the DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control) implementation...
by Thomas Pyzdek, Paul Keller
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2009
The following is a chapter from the fully updated and revised The Six Sigma Handbook, Third Edition. It covers the management systems and statistical tools that are the foundation of Six Sigma. The book's presentation is based on the DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control) implementation strategy...
by Thomas Pyzdek,Paul Keller
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2009
The following is a chapter from the fully updated and revised The Six Sigma Handbook , Third Edition. It covers the management systems and statistical tools that are the foundation of Six Sigma. The book's presentation is based on the DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control) implementation...
The Construction MBA: Practical Approaches to Construction Contracting
Practical Approaches to Construction Contracting
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
Proven business strategies for operating a profitable and efficient construction firm
Written by a successful management researcher, advisor, and educator to construction contractors, The Construction MBA reveals effective operating practices for managing the multiple processes that must work simultaneously...
The Definitive Guide to Supply Management and Procurement
Principles and Strategies for Establishing Efficient, Effective, and Sustainable Supply Management Operations
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Drive sustainable supply chain competitive advantage through more effective supplier management and procurement: reduce costs, improve quality, and deliver better service for all customers. This is the most authoritative, complete guide to planning, implementing, measuring, and optimizing supply management...
by Chao Shang
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
This thesis develops a systematic, data-based dynamic modeling framework for industrial processes in keeping with the slowness principle. Using said framework as a point of departure, it then proposes novel strategies for dealing with control monitoring and quality prediction problems in industrial...
The Definitive Guide to Transportation
Principles, Strategies, and Decisions for the Effective Flow of Goods and Services
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
This is the most authoritative and complete guide to planning, implementing, measuring, and optimizing world-class supply chain transportation processes. Straight from the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), it brings together up-to-the-minute principles, strategies, and decisions...