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Following in the tradition of its Shingo Prize-winning predecessors, Lean Production Simplified, Third Edition gives a clear overview of the structure and tools of the Lean production system. Written for the practitioner by a practitioner, it delivers a...

This book is a reference guide for healthcare executives and technology providers involved in the ongoing digital transformation of the healthcare sector.The book focuses specifically on the challenges and opportunities for health systems in their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492119179Author Bill CurtisFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Ben Linders PublishingPublisher Ben Linders PublishingWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)...

Technical Analysis of Stock Trends helps investors make smart, profitable trading decisions by providing proven long- and short-term stock trend analysis. It gets right to the heart of effective technical trading concepts, explaining technical theory...

A Lean Safety Gemba Walk is a walk through the work area (Gemba) that focuses on the continuous improvement of safety. When conducted in a respectful manner, by skilled facilitators, Safety Gemba Walks can have a dramatic long-lasting impact on the...

While the concept of social value is not new, recent interest in social value in construction has grown because of new social procurement legislation around the world and an increasing acceptance of the need to ensure construction projects provide social...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593196847Author Nicole HendizadehFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint ZeitgeistPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1g

In this third book of the Shingo Model series, Continuous Improvement focuses on five of the Shingo Guiding Principles: seek perfection, embrace scientific thinking, focus on process, assure quality at the source, and improve flow and pull.Each chapter...

A facility-wide improvement initiative is expensive in terms of both time and money. Perhaps the most disappointing thing about them is that they often end up as temporary measures that may produce early results but are unsustainable in the long run. The...

When I was first given the job of managing a small plastics factory back in 1989, I quickly realized that most of the books and teaching on Lean Manufacturing were designed for big companies and were not relevant to my factory.-Tim McleanThe last 25...

"On Time-In Full" is an important work. Tim McLean provides an easy to follow practical approach to building a highly performing supply chain"-Drew Locher, Shingo Prize Winning Author and Lean ThinkerThe most fundamental requirement for a manufacturing...

Winner of a Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award!At the heart of Lean and Six Sigma is the same, unique business operating system: hoshin kanri. It is a method of strategic planning and a tool for managing complex projects, a quality...

Mention the phrase "bottom line," and the immediate thought tends to focus on a company's financial performance. Think again! There's an equally important factor that carries tremendous impact on that final total: operational performance measures...

In this book, Sidney Dekker sets out to identify the market mechanisms that explain how less government paradoxically leads to greater compliance burdens. This book gives shape and substance to a suspicion that has become widespread among workers in...

Winner of the 2003 Financial Times Germany/getAbstract Business & Finance Book Award Leading Geeks challenges the conventional wisdom that leadership methods are universal and gives executives and managers the understanding they need to manage and lead...

Eli Goldratt is known by millions of readers worldwide as a scientist, educator and business guru. His Theory of Constraints (TOC) is taught at business schools and MBA programs around the globe. Government agencies and businesses, large and small, have...

This book provides detailed step-by-step guidelines on how to properly implement 5S (Sort, Set in Order, Scrub, Standardize, Sustain) and the visual workplace. It is ideal for Lean practitioners and facilitators looking for a training tool and a...

This book is the most comprehensive review of health and safety in half a century. Most organisational approaches to health and safety are based on the methodology developed during the 1970s, and despite the workplace changing beyond recognition since...

Operations Management: Sustainability and Supply Chain Management presents a broad introduction to the field of operations in a practical and application-oriented manner. Through detailed behind-the-scenes perspectives on the production of goods and...

This book guides process-industry professionals from the implementation of the basic foundations of Continuous Improvement (CI) through to an organization where CI is a "way of life" and a defining feature of the culture of the organization. The readers...

"Command and Control is failing us. There is a better way to design and manage work - a better way to make work work - but it remains unknown to the vast majority of managers."An adherent of the Toyota Production System, John Seddon explains how...

Standard work is an agreed upon set of work procedures that effectively combines people, materials, and machines to maintain quality, efficiency, safety, and predictability. Work is described precisely in terms of cycle time, work in process, sequence,...

Lean Process Creation teaches the specific frames-the 6CON model-to look through to properly design any new process while optimizing the value-creating resources. The framing is applicable to create any process that involves people, technology, or...

Assisting organizations in improving their project management processes, the Project Management Maturity Model defines the industry standard for measuring project management maturity and agile and adaptive capabilities.Project Management Maturity Model,...

Winner of a 2012 Shingo Research and Professional Publication AwardDemystifying the application of Lean methods, Lean Office and Service Simplified: The Definitive How-To Guide goes beyond the basic tools to detail the key concepts of Lean as they apply...

One box of chemicals mistaken for another. Ingredients intended to be life-sustaining are instead life-taking. Families in shock, healthcare providers reeling and fingers starting to point. A large healthcare system's reputation hangs in the balance...

Recent improvements at Enterride's Trail Rider Memphis Operation bought Pete Grant, the Trail Rider Plant Manager, and his team a little more time, but Pete knew much more was needed to save the plant. They needed a breakthrough, a true game changer...

Touted by maintenance and reliability professionals around the world as a "must-read for anyone who wants to stay competitive in today's industrial environment," and "By far the best book on maintenance management," Maintenance and...

Virginia Mason Medical Center (VMMC) was one of the first health care organizations to implement Lean and its methodologies. Other organizations have followed VMMC's lead, but this world class organization still leads in the utilization of innovative...

Second Edition of a Shingo Prize WinnerBased on the author's personal experience with Toyota's master teachers and with companies in the midst of great change, Andy & Me: Crisis & Transformation on the Lean Journey, now in its second edition, is a...

Winner of the 2003 Shingo Prize!Henry Ford is the man who doubled wages, cut the price of a car in half, and produced over 2 million units a year. Time has not diminished the progressiveness of his business philosophy, or his profound influence on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732592629Author Council for Six Sigma CertificationFormat HardbackPage Count 830Imprint Council for Six SIGMA CertificationPublisher Council for Six...

The IT industry was transformed during the 2010 decade. Cloud-based business applications proliferated throughout most enterprises. Rules of engagement between IT and its business partners were redefined. Proprietary data centers came to be viewed as...

This book represents the porceedings of the 1989 Safety and Reliability Society Symposium held in Bath on the 11th and 12th of October on that topic.Book InformationISBN 9781315897264Author G.B. GuyFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Taylor & Francis...

Mastery of quality health care and patient safety begins as soon as we open the hospital doors for the first time and start acquiring practical experience. The acquisition of such experience includes much more than the development of sensorimotor skills...

In a technological society, virtually every engineer and scientist needs to be able to collect, analyze, interpret, and properly use vast arrays of data. This means acquiring a solid foundation in the methods of data analysis and synthesis. Understanding...

The agribusiness supply chain includes a number of processes such as supply management, production management, and demand management to customers through a competitive distribution channel. Each step of the way can be plagued with issues such as...

Instead of building new hospitals that import old systems and problems, the time has come to reexamine many of our ideas about what a hospital should be. Can a building foster continuous improvement? How can we design it to be flexible and useful well...

A critical and often overlooked aspect of preventing medical device recalls is the ability to implement systems thinking. Although systems thinking won't prevent every mistake, it remains one of the most effective tools for evaluating hidden risks and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780136424703Author NaptaFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint PearsonPublisher PearsonWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 272mm * 213mm * 15mm