"e;It is a book for manufacturing companies that are fighting desperately for survival and that will go to any length to improve their factories and overcome the obstacles to success.
The concept of sustainable development was described in the United Nations' 1987 Bruntland Commission Report as "e;development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
In Using Hoshin Kanri to Improve the Value Stream, leading lean and quality expert Elizabeth Cudney constructs a complete how-to guide that any organization can employ to start a Lean effort correctly and keep it on track.
A must-read for all managers, leaders, and change agents, Performance Hubs: Engaging Teams in Focused Continuous Improvement supplies a proven system for engagement that allows teams to use their own data, understand the need for performance improvement, and drive improvements at their own level
The Product Wheel (PW) design process has practical methods for finding the optimum sequence, minimizing changeover costs, and freeing up useful capacity.
This book presents what the training within industry (TWI) program is and how its presence affects the understanding of work standardization, focusing on the practical aspects of the implementation of work standardization in the elimination of human errors in manufacturing and service processes.
One of two self-contained volumes belonging to the newly revised Steel Heat Treatment Handbook, Second Edition, this book focuses on process design, equipment, and testing used in steel heat treatment.
This book surveys the broad field of mechanical alloying from a scientific and technological perspective to form a timely and comprehensive resource valuable to both students and researchers.
Proven to increase efficiencies in the manufacturing sector, Standard Work has become a key element in reducing process waste, ensuring patient safety, and improving healthcare services.
The goal of Lean is to identify and eliminate nonessential and non-value-adding steps in business processes to streamline operations, improve quality, and gain customer loyalty.
Taking a new product from the design stage to large-scale production in a profitable, efficient manner can challenge the processes of even the most advanced companies.
Electronic Energy Levels of Transition Metal Complexes guides the reader to understand how to comprehensively calculate (predict, reconstruct) electronic energy levels of separation between 0,1 to 30,000 cm-1 in d1 to d9 transition metal complexes.
Electronic Energy Levels of Transition Metal Complexes guides the reader to understand how to comprehensively calculate (predict, reconstruct) electronic energy levels of separation between 0,1 to 30,000 cm-1 in d1 to d9 transition metal complexes.
Focus on Customer Satisfaction for Increased Profit Statistics show that a single satisfied customer can bring a company two new ones but one unsatisfied client can cost it four.
Critical-to-success factors (CSFs) have become essential elements to strategic planning and no business can achieve consistent success without effectively adopting them.
Nanostructured materials are one of the highest profile classes of materials in science and engineering today, and will continue to be well into the future.
Synthetic and Mineral Fibers, Their Composites and Applications reviews recent advances and technological developments in this important research field.
Contains the papers presented at the fourth International Seminar "e;Numerical Analysis of Weldability"e; held in September 1997 at Schloss Seggau near Graz, Austria.
This monograph on the continuous casting of steel has been produced at the request of the Institute of Materials with the aim of providing university professionals and students, those already working in the steel industry and steel plant suppliers in related activities, with a concise account of the engineering, process and product technology of the continuous casting of steel and how this has been developed over recent years.
Design for Manufacturability: How to Use Concurrent Engineering to Rapidly Develop Low-Cost, High-Quality Products for Lean Production shows how to use concurrent engineering teams to design products for all aspects of manufacturing with the lowest cost, the highest quality, and the quickest time to stable production.
Steel Informatics aims to review the application of data-driven computing techniques related to the design of steel, including phase transformation, composition-process-property correlation, and different processing techniques, particularly deformation and joining.
Contains the papers presented at the fourth International Seminar "e;Numerical Analysis of Weldability"e; held in September 1997 at Schloss Seggau near Graz, Austria.
Metal-organic frameworks (MOF)-based materials are used for functional applications due to their large surface area, high porosity, tunable structure, controllable morphology, and surface functionality.
This is a comprehensive introduction with some emphasis of the fundamentals of the different processing steps, but, and pays attention also to the main powder metallurgy products including their applications.
"e;It is a book for manufacturing companies that are fighting desperately for survival and that will go to any length to improve their factories and overcome the obstacles to success.
