Lean Manufacturing

Manufacturing companies succeed by using techniques that promote teamwork between engineering, marketing, and manufacturing engineering. This book explains how to implement techniques of teamwork between those disciplines and how to mold employees from various walks of life into a successful manufac..

Supply Chain Development for the Lean Enterprise..

Supply Chain Segmentation (SCS) has become a critical tool in optimizing supply chain performance. By using segmentation, an organization is taken out of the world of "one size fits all" and brought into a world that facilitates customized responses. This book explains what SCS is, how it works, and..

Anybody can start a Lean transformation. That’s easy. What’s hard, is sustaining it. Detailing the process for creating a sustainable Lean transformation, this book addresses how to stay on course over the long term. It describes how top-down metrics evolve into the identification of strategic and t..

This book presents a methodology for continuous process improvement in a structured, logical, and easily understandable framework based on industry accepted tools, techniques and practices. It starts by highlighting and explaining the conditions necessary for establishing a stable and capable proces..

This book presents a methodology for continuous process improvement in a structured, logical, and easily understandable framework based on industry accepted tools, techniques and practices. It starts by highlighting and explaining the conditions necessary for establishing a stable and capable proces..

Target Costing and Value Engineering..

This work examines the most important techniques for analyzing the profitability of capital investments. It discusses time value mechanics and financial concepts, including discounted cash flow, return on investment, incremental analysis, cash flow tables, income taxes, depreciation, cost of capital..

The 7 Kata..

This easy-to-use guide can help anyone looking to achieve professional certification make informed decisions about the many options available. It can also help avoid the pitfalls of making the wrong choice as a result of being incorrectly informed. Examining the range of professional certifications ..

The Basics of Benchmarking..

The Basics of Benchmarking..