Quality Control category: 855 books
TWI Case Studies
Standard Work, Continuous Improvement, and Teamwork
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2011
TWI Case Studies: Standard Work, Continuous Improvement, and Teamwork provides the insight of leading experts to assist in the execution of Training Within Industry (TWI) the game-changing business tool. Presented as a series of case studies from a range of corporations with a variety of products and needs, it illustrates the rebirth of TWI program
The Psychology of Lean Improvements
Why Organizations Must Overcome Resistance and Change the Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
Fear of change—we all experience it. Some accept change immediately, some gradually adapt, while others may never get there. Whether it’s poor leadership, the inability to change, or pure ego, this Shingo Prize-winning book explores this perplexing commitment to inefficiency.
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How to Coach for Creativity and Service Excellence
A Lean Coaching Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2019
How to Coach for Creativity and Service Excellence: A Lean Coaching Workbook is a self-contained workbook, in which the reader completes twenty-one days of practical exercises and activities focused on creativity, lean and coaching (one set per day). This will enable the reader to develop their capability...
Structured for Success
What Leaders Need to Know to Build and Sustain Effective Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Leadership is not just about reading data points and asserting corresponding action points; it is about designing an organizational structure and culture that directly generates desired performance results. Part of that involves understanding internal controls (such as motivation) versus external...
by Jean-Louis Boulanger
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
CENELEC EN 50128 and IEC 62279 standards are applicable to the performance of software in the railway sector. The 2011 version of the 50128 standard firms up the techniques and methods to be implemented. This is a guide to its implementation, in order to understand the foundations of the standard...
Load Assumption for Fatigue Design of Structures and Components
Counting Methods, Safety Aspects, Practical Application
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Understanding the fatigue behaviour of structural components under variable load amplitude is an essential prerequisite for safe and reliable light-weight design.
For designing and dimensioning, the expected stress (load) is compared with the capacity to withstand loads (fatigue strength)....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2017
This edited volume focuses on research conducted in the area of ergonomic design. Chapters are extensions of works presented at the International Conference on Management of Ergonomic Design, Industrial Safety and Healthcare Systems. The book addresses the need to have the knowledge of ergonomics,...
Visible Knowledge for Flawless Design
The Secret Behind Lean Product Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Visible knowledge is a tool nearly lost in the West, but it has been used to great effect by Toyota in its 50-year march from noncompetitiveness to its current status as the second largest automobile company in the world. It is key for the 50% growth in market share Toyota plans for this decade despite...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
This book describes the potentialities of metaheuristics for solving production scheduling problems and the relationship between these two fields.
For the past several years, there has been an increasing interest in using metaheuristic methods to solve scheduling problems. The main reasons for this...
Long Term Warranty and After Sales Service
Concept, Policies and Cost Models
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
This volume presents concepts, policies and cost models for various long-term warranty and maintenance contracts. It offers several numerical examples for estimating costs to both the manufacturer and consumer. Long-term warranties and maintenance contracts are becoming increasingly popular, as these...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Experts from academia and government who are actively engaged in research in the area of risk communication present a compendium of cases that give information and allow the development of strategies to improve the communication of scientific information to the public. The cases span Western, Central...
Best Team Skills
Fifty Key Skills for Unlimited Team Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2019
Best Team Skills gives you the tools you need to achieve the highest performance through the most productive encouragement and motivational methods available. Dr. Losoncy identifies the 50 skills that will most encourage your team members. Using 100 encouragement opportunity exercises, he works as...
Risk Assessments and Safe Machinery
Ensuring Compliance with the EU Directives
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
This book describes the prerequisites for the placing on the market and the safe use of machinery in compliance with the relevant EU Directives, especially the Machinery Directive 2006/42. It provides readers with high-level knowledge concerning the Essential Health and Safety Requirements (EHSR)...
Standards and Standardization
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Effective communication requires a common language, a truth that applies to science and mathematics as much as it does to culture and conversation. Standards and Standardization: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications addresses the necessity of a common system of measurement in all technical...