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Bioactive Glass Materials for Biological Applications envelopes the complexities, challenges, and advancement in developing a new class of bioactive materials for versatile applications.

New Directions in Print Culture Studies features new methods and approaches to cultural and literary history that draw on periodicals, print culture, and material culture, thus revising and rewriting what we think we know about the aesthetic, cultural, and social history of transnational America.

New Directions in Print Culture Studies features new methods and approaches to cultural and literary history that draw on periodicals, print culture, and material culture, thus revising and rewriting what we think we know about the aesthetic, cultural, and social history of transnational America.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

A WIRED 2020 Book of the YearObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

A WIRED 2020 Book of the YearObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Technology has always impacted the practice of fashion design.

In this modern technological era, conserving and making better use of resources like energy, water, and other essential resources have recently been one of the main concerns for the manufacturing industry.

This book is an implementation guide for creating a Lean Culture from the ground up while gaining buy-in from key stakeholders and being able to sustain the results.

Providing a reasonable level of profitability through productivity is - and will remain - one of the fundamental tasks of the management teams of any production company.

Strategic Lean management efforts significantly fail because leaders often lack a map of their organizations.

Reliability Centered Maintenance - Reengineered: Practical Optimization of the RCM Process with RCM-R(R) provides an optimized approach to a well-established and highly successful method used for determining failure management policies for physical assets.

The best healthcare organizations have developed effective approaches to develop compelling strategic visions and strategies based on long-term thinking and continue to apply Lean principles across their organizations to create a culture of continuous improvement.

The conditions in which leaders apply Hoshin Planning today have changed substantially since the method was established in the 1950's.

This book covers the basics of setup reduction and quick changeover and data collection.

This book describes how to effectively implement cell manufacturing.

Many shops have simplified their production control by using card-based systems such as kanban and Constant Work-in-Process (ConWIP).

Vacuum technology has enormous impact on human life in many aspects and fields, such as metallurgy, material development and production, food and electronic industry, microelectronics, device fabrication, physics, materials science, space science, engineering, chemistry, technology of low temperature, pharmaceutical industry, and biology.

This book explains how to sustain lean, or, continuous improvement practices.

Lean Production for Competitive Advantage: A Comprehensive Guide to Lean Methodologies and Management Practices, Second Edition introduces Lean philosophy and illustrates the effective application of Lean tools with real-world case studies.

Lean Production for Competitive Advantage: A Comprehensive Guide to Lean Methodologies and Management Practices, Second Edition introduces Lean philosophy and illustrates the effective application of Lean tools with real-world case studies.

This book, which takes the employees' perspective, illustrates what works and what doesn't work to engage, involve, and motivate a workforce.

The roles of corporate and public stewards and the nature of their social contract with society have been changing over the past two centuries, and those changes have accelerated in recent decades.

This revised and updated book explores the academics behind managing the complex service environment that is the Emergency Department (ED) by combining applied management science and practical experiences to create a model of how to improve operations.

This book will address key organizational issues that must be considered and addressed when implementing Lean business practices.

Just because a problem is invisible doesn't mean it's not affecting your operation.

Agile project management is a proven approach for designing and delivering software with improved value to customers.

This book is intented for Lean practitioners and facilitators looking for a training tool and guideline that can be used in the work area while improvements are being made.

This book is a guideline for implementation and it is intended for the Lean practitioner looking for a training tool and a guideline that can be used in the work area while improvements are being conducted.

While more and more companies are aggressively pursuing Operational Excellence by employing Six Sigma, Lean, and other continuous improvement methods, the concept has yet to be defined in a way that can be easily taught and applied, especially in industries other than manufacturing.

This book provides an assorted set of reflections/lessons from the "e;trenches"e; of Lean service and brings to fore leadership challenges, new tools, and the known-unknowns (insights that very few know but many in journey of Lean transformation need to know).

"e;On Time-In Full"e; is an important work.

Lean is a set of disciplines that can result in tremendous savings and profitability for companies.

Magnesium Alloys as Degradable Biomaterials provides a comprehensive review of the biomedical applications of biodegradable magnesium and its alloys.

With an estimated 70 percent of new projects failing to add value to the organization, reducing project failure rate represents one of the biggest improvement opportunities available today.

Adsorption and desorption in solution play significant roles in separations, detoxification of waste streams, in purification, chromatography, heterogeneous catalysis, metabolism of medicinal drugs, and beyond.

Leadership is not just about reading data points and asserting corresponding action points; it is about designing an organizational structure and culture that directly generates desired performance results.

Harnessing the power of technology is one of the key measures of effective leadership.

This book focuses on the creative tools and techniques, decisions, activities, and practices that move ideas to realization generate business value.

In today's fast-moving, high-technology environment, the focus on quality has given way to a focus on innovation.

In today's fast-moving, high-technology environment, the focus on quality has given way to a focus on innovation.

Offering a planned approach for determining cause and effect, DOE Simplified: Practical Tools for Effective Experimentation, Third Edition integrates the authors decades of combined experience in providing training, consulting, and computational tools to industrial experimenters.

Created by Lean practitioners with real-world, results-proven track records, this book is designed to help struggling managers and leaders, interested in the benefits of Lean but bereft of budgets to hire full-time consultants, start substantial change in their enterprises and begin to reap the benefits of Lean.