Quality Assurance (QA) and Total Quality Management (TQM)

Americans are bombarded with statistical data each and every day, and healthcare professionals are no exception.

This book is a fictionalized account of one teacher's effort in applying process improvement principles to her teaching practices.

This book presents a big-picture overview of the entire Shingo improvement process.

This is the eBook version of the printed book.

Adiabatic shear localization is a mode of failure that occurs in dynamic loading.

The notion of 'Quality' in business performance has exploded since the publication of the first edition of this classic text in 1989.

Best practices for implementing Lean techniques in retail and wholesale Essential reading for those who want to learn how Lean provides a competitive edge in today s fast-paced, multi-channel, and cost-conscious environment.

PRAISE FOR Balanced Scorecard Step-By-Step: Maximizing Performance and Maintaining Results, Second Edition "e;As a practitioner and thought leader, Paul Niven is superbly bridging the gulf between BSC theory and application through hands-on experiences and real-world case studies.

Root Cause Analysis, or RCA, "e;What is it?

This book is an implementation manual for lean tools and principles in a healthcare environment.

Psychology has become a global profession.

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The current economic climate, characterized by growing international competition, is forcing companies to rethink their approach in terms of strategy, the customer and supplier relationship, processes and human resource management.

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Achieve any cost goals in half the time and achieve stable production with quality designed in right-the-first-time.

Facility Integrity Management: Effective Principles and Practices for the Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Industries presents the information needed to completely understand common failures in the facility integrity management process.

Aiming to change the paradigms of traditional management strategies, this work attempts to create an improved platform within the total quality management umbrella for supporting the profit motive by offering hands-on instructions for applying the theory of constraints in the manufacturing system.

Modular kaizen is a development of necessity in our rapidly changing world where improvement has to happen "e;on the fly"e;.

This title was first published in 2001: Product and particularly customer profitability are black holes in most managers' understanding of their business.

The aim of this book is to present new quality practices adapted to the specifics of innovation processes in order to increase their chances of success while also facilitating support of the creators who are often put off by the constraints of traditional quality management methods.

Beyond Six Sigma and Lean!

Lean healthcare is not about being better, but rather becoming the best at getting better.

The uncertainty of measurement results is drawing attention of managers, metrologists and customers.

How is it possible that the desire for a perfectly safe world with perfectly safe workplaces helps generate the opposite?

Proven techniques for improving software and process quality with Six SigmaThis practical, in-depth guide explains how to apply Six Sigma to solve common product and process improvement challenges in the software and IT industry.

The BASICS Handbook is designed to show personnel at all levels within a manufacturing operations environment that, with easy to understand continuous improvement tools, they can make a difference to operational performance where safety, quality, cost, delivery, and people are paramount to business success.

This book provides construction professionals, designers, contractors and quality auditors involved in construction projects with the auditing skills and processes required to improve construction quality and make their projects more competitive and economical.

This book makes available original case studies on how institutions developed in Singapore.

This book is about the behaviour of systems.

The Pharmaceutical Engineering Series is a comprehensive reference for the pharmaceutical professional covering all aspects from quality, documentation and validation through manufacturing processes to facility design and management.

Workplace training and education have increasingly been seen as pivotal factors in improving the abilities, skills and competitiveness of industry, and the aim of the Management Charter Initiative (MCI), was to improve managers' practical competency in line with this.

Agile Readiness is designed to provide guidance to the manager or business leader in establishing a successful environment to enable fast moving agile and lean project methods focused on business systems transformation.

The last decade has seen wide changes in how quality standards are applied in industry.

Most people accept the importance of project management as a means of realizing value, enabling change and distinguishing your organization from its competitors.

This book provides a comprehensive look at four driving philosophies of lean methodology that many companies struggle to understand.

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This book introduces the reader to product specifications, production planning, sample inspections, process controls, and the impact of quality control on profit.

This hands-on book presents a complete understanding of Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma through data analysis and statistical concepts In today's business world, Six Sigma, or Lean Six Sigma, is a crucial tool utilized by companies to improve customer satisfaction, increase profitability, and enhance productivity.

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 "e;way of life"e; and a defining feature of the culture of the organization.

This book defines, develops, and examines the foundations of the APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning) methodology.

Proven methods for achieving continuous process improvementResolve "e;quality chaos"e; by creating a link between quality problems and their optimal solutions.

Among the biggest mistakes manufacturers make is not keeping key equipment and processes running and making saleable product when needed.

The definitive guide to implementing Baldrige Criteria in any organization-from the team that has worked with 18 Malcolm Baldrige Award winnersFor organizations in both the public and private sectors, the coveted Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is the gold standard to which all leaders aspire.

This book introduces a powerful system that explains how to run a company with a focus on continuous improvement.

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This book presents a model of organization transformation success.

This updated and expanded edition discusses many different tools for root cause analysis and presents them in an easy-to-follow structure: a general description of the tool, its purpose and typical applications, the procedure when using it, an example of its use, a checklist to help you make sure if is applied properly, and different forms and templates.

This book provides tools that are less commonly used and some tools that the author, Nancy Tague, created.