Lean Manufacturing

Specifically written for contractors and small businesses carrying out small works, Spon's Estimating Cost Guide to Roofing contains accurate information on thousands of rates, each broken down to labour, material overheads and profit._x005F_x000D_This is the first book to include typical project co..

The techniques found in 3C- A Proven Alternative to MRPII for Optimizing Supply Chain Performance generate immediate business benefits. Experts from Lucent Technologies discuss the the 3Cs - capacity, commonality, and consumption - and how they can revolutionize business. They cover how to: decrease..

Written by an expert in Lean principles, this book offers an easy-to-use problem-solving method that can be applied to every aspect of healthcare to identify, understand, and improve processes. Illustrated with numerous A3s in various stages of development, this practical, easy-to-use workbook expla..

Accelerated Product Development..

When your organization opts to go lean, its accountants must be empowered with lean tools in service of the lean mission. This step-by-step workbook demonstrates how to develop information and financial reports that serve the needs of lean-minded businesses. It also includes checklists, guidelines, ..

Especially effective in dynamic and highly competitive environments, the Amoeba Management System has received attention from the Harvard Business Review and has been successfully adopted at hundreds of companies around the world. Written by the system's creator, this book provides a complete introd..

Autonomous Maintenance Video Participants Guide..

The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is the highest level of national recognition for performance excellence that a U.S. organization can receive. An organization must have a role-model organizational management system that ensures continuous improvement in the delivery of products and/or ser..

At the heart of Becoming Lean are the stories of American manufacturers that have successfully implemented lean methods. It goes beyond the technical to explore the many changes possible when implementing lean. The writers offer personalized accounts of their organization's lean transformation. They..

Covering the fundamentals needed to be competitive in today’s marketplace, this book provides readers with the tools to help their organizations achieve 100 percent effectiveness in Lean production. Explaining that overseas factories can't compete with U.S. factories in speed of delivery to domestic..

Manual of Spectrofluorometric and Spectrophotometric Derivative Experiments is a superb, self-study manual for technicians and analytical chemists to use for learning how to perform spectrometry and fluorometry experiments. It presents step-by-step procedures for conducting the experiments, and it e..

This book provides an assorted set of reflections/lessons from the "trenches" of Lean service and brings to fore leadership challenges, new tools, and the known-unknowns (insights that very few know but many in journey of Lean transformation need to know). Lean has the ability to address a wide rang..