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by Clyde M. Creveling
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2006
This is the eBook version of the printed book.
This document discusses how technical leaders and management professionals can implement Six Sigma for the processes they oversee. It explores a relatively new kind of Six Sigma and its associated lean principles that prevent problems in well-designed,...
by Praveen Gupta
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2006
This chapter comes from the Second Edition of Six Sigma Business Scorecard , which is filled with performance-measuring techniques that can be used throughout a corporation. This guidebook was designed to translate an organization's mission and business strategies into performance measures and operating...
Supply Chain Development for the Lean Enterprise
Interorganizational Cost Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Four questions determine whether a company is using interorganizational cost management.
Does your firm set specific cost-reduction objectives for its suppliers?
Does your firm help its customers and/or suppliers find ways to achieve their cost-education objectives?
Does your firm take into...
Reliable Design of Electronic Equipment
An Engineering Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2014
This book explains reliability techniques with examples from electronics design for the benefit of engineers. It presents the application of de-rating, FMEA, overstress analyses and reliability improvement tests for designing reliable electronic equipment. Adequate information is provided for designing...
A Six Sigma Approach to Sustainability
Continual Improvement for Social Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
In an age when most business plans extend only to the next quarterly reporting period, the authors of this book propose an audaciously longer view of future planning. Reaching beyond the modern five or ten-year strategic plan, the authors take a cue from Kongo Gumi, a Japanese construction company launched in 578 AD that managed to thrive as a fami
by Gustav Eisen
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Of late years the raisin industry has been prominently before the horticulturists of California. Many people now make their living and acquire wealth by the cultivation of the raisin grapes, and many are now studying the methods of cultivation, pruning, curing and packing while waiting for their vines...
Participatory Healthcare
A Person-Centered Approach to Healthcare Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
This book is written through the lens of patients, caregivers, healthcare representatives and families, highlighting new models of interaction between providers and patients and what people would like in their healthcae experience. It will envision a new kind of healthcare system that recommends on...
Safety Culture and High-Risk Environments
A Leadership Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This book provides leaders in high risk industries a better understanding of how their values and behaviors can influence the organization's safety culture and improve its capacity to bounce back from failure. Examples are illustrated through case studies and practical tools are provided to evaluate...
What Works for GE May Not Work for You
Using Human Systems Dynamics to Build a Culture of Process Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
What Works for GE May Not Work for You: Using Human Systems Dynamics to Build a Culture of Process Improvement provides new tools for managing and sustaining process improvement in today’s complex non-linear environments and helps readers apply new, relevant theory to their own management practices....
Lean Sigma
A Practitioner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
The Practical, Easy-to-Use Guide to Lean Sigma Problem-Solving Lean Sigma delivers results–if you use the right tools and techniques. In Lean Sigma: A Practitioner’s Guide, Dr. Ian Wedgwood captures best-practice Lean Sigma experience from multiple projects and industries, helping any professional...
Lean Maintenance
A Practical, Step-By-Step Guide for Increasing Efficiency
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
The book is about applying Lean manufacturing principles to industrial maintenance in order to improve the efficiency and be able to do more with the same (or less) resources. By industrial maintenance we mean the maintenance that takes place in factories and industrial facilities. The book is the...
The Kanban Playbook
A Step-by-Step Guideline for the Lean Practitioner
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
This book is intented for Lean practitioners and facilitators looking for a training tool and guideline that can be used in the work area while improvements are being made. It provides the most visible and detailed approach to Kanban implementation, so that they can see results in a short period.
The Monetary Value of Time
Why Traditional Accounting Systems Make Customers Wait
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Although there are numerous books on alternative accounting methods, such as Lean accounting, none focus on the impact of time and how accounting practices can be modified to acknowledge the power of time. This book addresses this need.
The Monetary Value of Time: Why Traditional Accounting...
Understanding, Measuring, and Improving Overall Equipment Effectiveness
How to Use OEE to Drive Significant Process Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Understanding, Measuring, and Improving Overall Equipment Effectiveness: How to Use OEE to Drive Significant Process Improvement explains why the Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) measure was created and how it should be used.
Based on 20 years of hands on experience applying OEE at over...