Manufacturing

The Toyota Way

by Jeffrey Liker

Item #: 2630

Toyota is the world’s most profitable automaker. Its “secret weapon” is lean production — the revolutionary approach to business processes that it invented in the 1950s. Today, businesses around the world are trying to emulate Toyota’s remarkable success by working to implement the company’s radical system for speeding up business and service processes, reducing waste, and improving quality. To help other companies learn to continually improve on what they do, Professor of Industrial and Operati

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Product Creation

by Philip H. Francis

Item #: 2330

Francis presents an exhaustive overview of the issues involved in product creation — including manufacturing strategy, quality and leadership.

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Six Sigma

by Mikel Harry Ph.D., Richard Schroeder

Item #: 2227

Using examples of successful implementation of the Six Sigma Breakthrough Strategy at such companies as General Electric, AlliedSignal and Polaroid, Harry and Schroeder (both from the Six Sigma Academy, Inc.) lay out in detail the theory and practice of achieving the astounding level of quality (3.4 defects per million) at the heart of this approach.

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Gemba Kaizen

by Masaaki Imai

Item #: 1918

Improve your workplace, not with expensive new equipment and grandiose methods, but step-by-step. It's convincing. This is a favorite among managers.

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Manufacturing 2000

by William Duncan

Item #: 1621

Technological visionary William Duncan outlines the problems and the opportunities facing manufacturers and offers many ways to take advantage of both. Embrace the future now, says Duncan, or you most likely won’t be around in ten years. Look for more rapid product development, more responsive manufacturing.

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Team Zebra

by Steven Bennett, Stephen Frangos

Item #: 1530

Frangos headed Kodak's Black & White Film Manufacturing as it turned around and became a world-class organization. Managers didn't spend money on new plants and equipment; instead, they flattened the hierarchy, reengineered processes -- and let employees use their brains. A manifesto for any company that must do better.

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Reinventing The Factory II

by Roy Harmon

Item #: 1421

Harmon shows how Western factories can equal or surpass the output of the best factories anywhere. Get the latest techniques in fast product design, supplier partnerships, and efficient transportation networks.

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Reinventing the Factory

by Roy Harmon, Leroy Peterson

Item #: 1222

You need new techniques, not new machinery, to win the race for greater productivity. And here they are in helpful detail.

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