Uptime describes the combination of activities that deliver fewer breakdowns, improved productive capacity, lower costs, and better environmental performance.
While worker safety is often touted as a company,s first priority, more often than not, safety activity is driven by compliance to legislation rather than any safety improvement initiative.
Clausewitz Talks Business: An Executive's Guide to Thinking Like a Strategist distills the wisdom of Carl von Clausewitz's monumental 1832 classic On War considered by many eminent scholars as the most distinguished Western work on war ever written.
Advances in Functionalized Polymer Nanocomposites: From Synthesis to Applications presents a detailed review on the synthesis, fundamental chemistry, properties, and applications of these high-performance materials.
The Lean Anthology: A Practical Primer in Continual Improvement presents operations management case studies that illustrate a Lean process improvement journey.
Although there are many books on root cause analysis (RCA), most concentrate on team actions such as brainstorming and using quality tools to discuss the failure under investigation.
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.
During the author's decades of experience consulting in the corporate world and teaching management theory at the university level, he has often questioned many modern-day management practices.
Following in the tradition of its bestselling predecessor, The 12 Principles of Manufacturing Excellence: A Lean Leader's Guide to Achieving and Sustaining Excellence, Second Edition outlines a comprehensive, proven process for delivering world-class performance while also cultivating the right culture through leadership, mentoring, and hourly asso
Although batching often appears more efficient than one-piece flow for individual tasks, the practice creates waste for other parts of the organization that more than offset its perceived benefits.
Standardized Work refers to the process of finding and applying the best operational methods that will lead to cost reduction, better product quality, and increased operator safety.
In 1791, Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton wrote that "e;not only the wealth, but the independence and security of a country, appear to be materially connected with the prosperity of manufacturers.
In no industry is the concept of quality more essential than it is in healthcare, which is why the lean quality principles learned through the example of the Toyota Production System are so applicable.
Enabling management to verify that processes are being performed correctly and in an efficient manner, standardized work provides limitless opportunities for process improvements.
Fitting and Pattern Alteration: A Multi-Method Approach to the Art of Style Selection, Fitting, and Alteration, Fourth Edition, shows readers how to recognize, evaluate, and correct fit for a variety of body types, sizes.
The text provides the reader with an in-depth understanding of the need for next-generation materials and manufacturing, especially in terms of their designing process, manufacturing, upscaling, and finally their selection for industrial applications.
Treatise on Process Metallurgy: Volume One, Process Fundamentals provides academics with the fundamentals of the manufacturing of metallic materials, from raw materials into finished parts or products.
This book offers a basic and practical guide for a manager, quality practitioner, or anyone interested in learning and understanding the fundamental principles, concepts, tools, and techniques of quality management and process improvement.
This book covers advances in fusion and solid-state welding processes including basics, welding metallurgy, defect formation, and the effect of process parameters on mechanical properties.
This book covers advances in fusion and solid-state welding processes including basics, welding metallurgy, defect formation, and the effect of process parameters on mechanical properties.
Supplying you with a firm grasp of the roots of strategy, How to Outthink, Outmaneuver, and Outperform Your Competitors: Lessons from the Masters of Strategy explains how to develop the skills and strategies needed to compete in today's volatile marketplace.
The huge increase in potential applications of polymer nanocomposites have made it necessary for researchers to address the fire safety issues of these materials.
Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición del certificado de profesionalidad "MAMD0209 - TRABAJOS DE CARPINTERÍA Y MUEBLE".
Shortlisted for the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award 2025This multi-disciplinary study examines the exceptional Turkey red textile dyeing process and product.
Polymer Nanocomposite Films and Coatings: Processes, Fundamental Properties and Applications presents a comprehensive review on the fundamental chemistry, physics, biology and engineering aspects of polymer nanocomposite films and coatings.
This book examines sustainable manufacturing, from the extraction of materials to processing, use, and disposal, and argues that significant changes in all of the above are needed for the world to progress toward a more circular economy.
This handbook explores smart cities of the future, provides an understanding of their development and management systems, and discusses the technology challenges.
Treatise on Process Metallurgy: Volume One, Process Fundamentals provides academics with the fundamentals of the manufacturing of metallic materials, from raw materials into finished parts or products.
Polymer Nanocomposite Films and Coatings: Processes, Fundamental Properties and Applications presents a comprehensive review on the fundamental chemistry, physics, biology and engineering aspects of polymer nanocomposite films and coatings.
This book examines sustainable manufacturing, from the extraction of materials to processing, use, and disposal, and argues that significant changes in all of the above are needed for the world to progress toward a more circular economy.
Shortlisted for the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award 2025This multi-disciplinary study examines the exceptional Turkey red textile dyeing process and product.
Smart ceramic coatings containing multifunctional components are now finding application in transportation and automotive industries, in electronics, and energy, sectors, in aerospace and defense, and in industrial goods and healthcare.
The huge increase in potential applications of polymer nanocomposites have made it necessary for researchers to address the fire safety issues of these materials.
This book in the railway modelling series drills deeper into the tips and techniques that can be utilised by the modern modeller to produce a detailed and cohesive model railway.
This book in the railway modelling series drills deeper into the tips and techniques that can be utilised by the modern modeller to produce a detailed and cohesive model railway.
The subject of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is continuing on its journey of affecting each and every individual and will keep on this path in the times to come.
Titanium Alloys: An Atlas of Structures and Fracture Features uses award-winning micrographs and fractographs to illustrate alloy microstructures that result from various thermo-mechanical treatments present in real-world operating conditions.
This book explores the dramatic changes that have occurred in the business environment due in part to the phenomenal impact on societies and economies around the globe that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The present book focuses on advancement in the application of heterogeneous catalytic materials for the dehydrogenative synthesis of valuable organic compounds from substrates such as alcohols and simple aliphatic compounds.
