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This book introduces Systematic Improvement Planning (SIP), a structured approach to improvement.

This book covers recent advancements in the field of polymer science and technology.

In an environment where many organizations think of human capital assets as little more than expense items that impact the bottom line, this book will help human resource (HR) professionals initiate a shift toward a new culture in which management views employees as true partners in achieving organizational success.

Updating the tools, principles, and methods presented in the bestselling first edition, this updated edition explains how to implement the authors proven improvement methodology that unifies the Theory of Constraints with Lean and Six Sigma.

Operational Excellence is achieved when all employees in your organization can see the flow of value to your customers and can make adjustments to that flow before it breaks down.

This book proposes a new model, the Lean and Green Business Model (L&GBM), where the environmental aspect of sustainability is integrated with Lean thinking in order to create a way of thinking that contributes to and balances the three sustainability dimensions of people, profit, and planet.

If IT companies seek to differentiate themselves from the competition, they must turn to consultative selling.

Many companies conduct Lean training and projects, but few have tapped the wealth of ideas in the minds of their staff like Baylor Scott and White Health.

Risk management in supply chain logistics has moved from being a nice-to-have to a necessity due to the number of variables that can cripple a business.

The use of conducting polymers for the anticorrosion protection of metals has attracted great interest during the last 30 years.

Developing a Turnaround Business Plan is an ideal resource for managers currently facing a competitive crisis as well as those who wish to avert one and must set a turnaround plan in motion before the situation results in irreversible losses.

Performance management, the primary focus of a Lean organization, occurs through continuous improvement programs that focus on education, belief systems development, and effective change management.

This book provides a global perspective on the various issues that the industry has to face as well as to provide some key global strategies that can help coping with those global challenges, such as collaboration, strategic value chain planning, and interdependency analyses.

Currently, internationally dispersed teams are commonplace among global companies.

Since the publication of its Shingo Prize-winning predecessor, TWI programs have seen steady growth in usage.

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.

Designing new products and improving existing ones is a continual process.

Without Lean leaders, there can be no Lean.

This is the first monograph to comprehensively cover the effect of using power ultrasound to refine and solidify aluminium and magnesium alloys.

Building a Global Learning Organization: Using TWI to Succeed with Strategic Workforce Expansion in the LEGO Group describes how a multinational company developed a global structure for learning based on the TWI (Training Within Industry) program to create and sustain standardized work across multiple language and cultural platforms.

Mastering Complexity is designed to help readers develop and maintain logical, adaptable solutions to business problems.

This book contains everything you need to know about modern history of dress design, from the corset-free styles of 1920s flappers to the conceptual constructions of modern artists.

This exciting new text investigates the true essence of strategic thinking, and explores the need for alternative, responsible approaches in a complex global environment.

This book focuses on the impact of digitalization on supply chains and how it is affecting every aspect of people's lives.

The comprehensive volume deals with the manufacturing processes involved in the following Canadian industries: Aluminum, Beef, Brewing, Brick, Detergents, Flat-Drawn Glass, Asbestos-Magnesia Insulation, Iron and Steel, Magazine Publishing, Petroleum, Pulp and Paper, Rubber, Textiles (Cotton), Textiles (Wool), Textiles (Man-Made Fibres), Tobacco, Wire and Cable.

This book helps close the gap in how organizations think about and implement Toyota's continuous improvement methods and management system.

Within the metal and mining industries, the use of expert systems for monitoring and control is on the increase.

Containing almost 250 technical and review papers, these proceedings form an authoritative, state-of-the-art review of this important multidisciplinary topic.

This volume of proceedings is concerned with an increasingly important area, that of intermetallics and high temperature aluminides, which has recently been attracting a great deal of attention.

Advances in Particulate Materials introduces the approaches and principles associated with basic powder production, and details the most critical, state-of-the-art advancements in the area of materials processing and particulate materials.

Expanded and revised to include changes and additions to metal cutting theory.

This dictionary reflects developments in physical metallurgy, namely the growth of strong ties to the physics of metals.

It is estimated that about 40% of the annual production of metals is used to repair or replace materials damaged by corrosion.

Within this volume is a thorough coverage of the fundamental principles embracing modern theories of colloid chemistry applied to mineral processing.

This volume provides an introduction to the texture analysis of deformed materials and explores methods of determining and interpreting the preferred orientation of crystals in deformed polycrystalline aggregates.

Non-sag (NS) tungsten is a dispersion-strengthened microalloy with elemental potassium, which is contained as microscopic bubbles in the tungsten lattice.

A completely revised and up-to-date edition containing comprehensive industrial data.

World-class scientists and engineers from more than six countries presented thirty-five papers on topics such as magnesium casting technology, metal matrix composites, mathematical modelling, solidification and reduction of light metals.

The Symposium covers most of the aspects of modern aqueous electrometallurgical practice, with a stronger emphasis on copper than zinc and nickel, which can be regarded as being the three major electrolytic metals.

This book which describes the world of metallurgical processing is influenced by a variety of factors not directly metallurgical.

This international symposium is in honour of Professor\F\Weinberg who will be retiring from the University of British Columbia this year, following a distinguished career.

This international symposium held in honor of Professor J\S\Kirkcaldy, will comprise review and research papers covering both fundamental and applied aspects of ternary diffusion.

Please note this is a Short Discount publication.

This book provides a record of the symposium held at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada, in honour of Professor J\S\Kirkaldy, and covers the recent progress being made in phase transformations, both experimental and theoretical, to facilitate the understanding of microstructural development.

The symposium is comprised of four sections: (1) Thermochemical Computation and Data Banks: Calculations of Thermodynamic Properties of Metallurgical Solutions.

High temperature phase equilibria studies play an increasingly important role in materials science and engineering.

Describes current advances in metallurgical processes applied to gold extraction.

The symposium brings together papers by industrial users of oxygen, major oxygen producers, engineering firms and leading experts in the field.

Provides a unique survey of the information contained in the patent literature concerning solvent extraction of nickel and cobalt.