Quality Control category: 855 books
MoneyBall Medicine
Thriving in the New Data-Driven Healthcare Market
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
How can a smartwatch help patients with diabetes manage their disease? Why can’t patients find out prices for surgeries and other procedures before they happen? How can researchers speed up the decade-long process of drug development? How will "Precision Medicine" impact patient care outside...
Modern Approaches to Manufacturing Improvement
The Shingo System
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Here's the quickest and most inexpensive way to learn about the pioneering work of Shigeo Shingo, co-creator (with Taiichi Ohno) of just-in-time. It's an introductory book containing excerpts of five of his classic books as well as an excellent introduction by Professor Robinson.
The Single-Minded Project
Ensuring the Pace of Progress
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
The behaviour of people and their organisation are the primary drivers of a project’s pace of progress. Methodology, tools and techniques are vital but subordinate to human endeavour; if only because their selection, deployment and application entirely depend on the abilities of the project players...
The Right Measures
The Story of a Company’s Journey to Find the True Indicators of Its Success and Values
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Organizational measures are the foundational building blocks that shape an organization’s vision and action. All too often however, these measures do not receive the attention they deserve. In addition, it is common for organizations to overact and measure too much, resulting in the same results...
Value Engineering Synergies with Lean Six Sigma
Combining Methodologies for Enhanced Results
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Lean Six Sigma (LSS), Design for Six Sigma (DFSS), and Value Engineering (VE) have a proven track record of success for solving problems and improving efficiency. Depending on the situation, integrating these approaches can provide results that exceed the benefits of each individual approach. Value Engineering Synergies with Lean Six Sigma: Combini
Out of the Lab and On the Market
How Sony Computer Science Labs (SonyCSL) Turn Research into Profits
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Tetsu Natsume of Sony Computer Science Labs (Sony CSL) has been pioneering technology promotion for a decade. As he seeks marketplace opportunities for ground-breaking research, he plays the role of a Technology Producer -- a role that will be increasingly important as organizations seek optimally...
Toyota by Toyota
Reflections from the Inside Leaders on the Techniques That Revolutionized the Industry
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Written by former Toyota associates, Toyota By Toyota: Reflections from the Inside Leaders on the Techniques That Revolutionized the Industry focuses on the purpose of Lean methodologies, techniques, and principles. It compiles more than a century of combined experience from management-level employees...
Food Safety Governance
Integrating Science, Precaution and Public Involvement
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
working mechanisms and to develop the overall governance framework in which we operate. Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle Executive Director European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) Parma, March 2008 Acknowledgements This book and the General Framework for the Precautionary and Inclusive Governance of Food...
Human Fatigue Risk Management
Improving Safety in the Chemical Processing Industry
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Human Fatigue Risk Management: Improving Safety in the Chemical Processing Industry teaches users everything they need to know to mitigate the risk of fatigued workers in a plant or refinery. As human fatigue has been directly linked to several major disasters, the book explores the API RP 755 guidelines...
The Framework for Innovation
A Guide to the Body of Innovation Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
The innovation infrastructure and master plan described in this book offers a detailed and comprehensive approach to one of the most difficult and challenging problems facing entrepreneurs involved in innovation at any scale enterprise: the problem of how to govern your organization’s innovation...
by William S. Ruggles, H. James Harrington
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Project Management for Performance Improvement Teams (or, PM4PITs, for short) provides practical guidance based on innovative concepts for project teams -- especially Performance Improvement Teams (PITs)—and their Project Managers on how to successfully complete individual projects and programs...
by Christopher F. Voehl, H. James Harrington, William S. Ruggles
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
With an estimated 70 percent of new projects failing to add value to the organization, reducing project failure rate represents one of the biggest improvement opportunities available today. This book highlights proven approaches designed to separate the successful projects from the potential losers before the projects are started. This represents h
Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
The Only Way to Renew Your Organization
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
People with ideas are dreamers. People who get things done are doers. One doer is worth eight dreamers. There are three kinds of people who make up an innovator. There are inventors (people who have new and unique ideas), problem solvers (people who have ideas about how to correct a previous error)...
Current Trends in Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety
An Industry Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Containing selected papers from the ICRESH-ARMS 2015 conference in Lulea, Sweden, collected by editors with years of experiences in Reliability and maintenance modeling, risk assessment, and asset management, this work maximizes reader insights into the current trends in Reliability, Availability,...