Lean Manufacturing

This book looks beyond what is necessary for compliance alone to address what makes a quality management system both effective and efficient. In addition, this book never forgets that real people must make any quality management system work; the book provides a blueprint for creating a quality manag..

The industrial revolution, mechanization, water and steam power, computers, and automation have given an enormous boost to manufacturing productivity. "Faster, Better, Cheaper" in the History of Manufacturing shows how the ability to make products faster, better, and cheaper has evolved from the sto..

Written by business leaders for business leaders, this book explores successful supply chain improvement requirements and methodologies. It covers the use of these techniques in a story about Twin City Manufacturing, a fictitious company based on the authors’ actual experiences. Whether you are inti..

For many years, lean initiatives have generated staggering improvements on the shop floor. This book shows you how to efficiently translate and transition lean manufacturing principles into the office. It confirms that the competitive advantage will go to those who manage information and knowledge m..

Presented in an engaging business-novel format, Focus and Leverage is a sequel to the authors’ bestselling book, Epiphanized, Second Edition. The primary characters remain the same, but this time the storyline features two different industries: Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) and Healthcare ..

Proving that top-down decision making within service-oriented businesses leads to managers who are detached from employees and daily operations, John Seddon demonstrates that decision-making based on purpose-related measures (such as putting customers first and improving services) can help managers ..

Get It, Set It, Move It, Prove It..

Just because a problem is invisible doesn’t mean it’s not affecting your operation. While communication, distance, and culture are often ignored as real threats to your results, these unnoticed forces are negatively affecting companies that operate internationally. Globalization has amplified a seri..

Written by a renowned sustainability expert, this book makes the case for why the people and the planet need products to be made in a more sustainable way. It provides insights on how to raise the bar on product development and investigates the best practices for making and marketing sustainable bra..

Henry Ford's Lean Vision..

This book, the first in The One-Day Expert series dedicated to Standardized Work, is about operator performance measurement. It explains how to measure the performance of operators quickly and simply without sacrificing accuracy. Detailing how to identify the most efficient operators and how to moni..

Implementing TPM..