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A professional reference for advanced courses in two of the most common manufacturing processes: metal forming and metal cutting.

Collaborative manufacturing and management are a fundamental requirement in today's digital age, to enable an innovative and sustainable development of companies.

Updated review of a well established graduate text.

Updated review of a well established graduate text.

This book provides a simple method of designing P/PI controllers for series and parallel cascade control schemes.

A new account of the role of coinage in the finances and economy of the Roman Empire.

A new account of the role of coinage in the finances and economy of the Roman Empire.

Handbook of Advanced Ceramic Coatings: Fundamentals, Manufacturing and Classification introduces ceramic coating materials, methods of fabrication, characterizations, the interaction between fillers, reinforcers, and environmental impact, and the functional classification of ceramic coatings.

Towards Green Marine Technology and Transport covers recent developments in marine technology and transport.

Recent Progress in Steel and Composite Structures includes papers presented at the XIIIth International Conference on Metal Structures (ICMS 2016, Zielona G,ra, Poland, 15-17 June 2016).

Lean Transformations for Small and Medium Enterprises: Lessons Learned from Italian Businesses summarizes two decades of research, teaching, and practice on lean thinking.

Lean Transformations for Small and Medium Enterprises: Lessons Learned from Italian Businesses summarizes two decades of research, teaching, and practice on lean thinking.

People want to create a better world and planet; however, where, and how to start remains the question.

Inventory control is an essential task in production management.

Inventory control is an essential task in production management.

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.

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.

While there are numerous Lean Certification programs, most companies have their own certification paths whereby they bestow expert status upon employees after they have participated in or led a certain number of kaizen events.

A Complete Reference Covering the Latest Technology in Metal Cutting Tools, Processes, and EquipmentMetal Cutting Theory and Practice, Third Edition shapes the future of material removal in new and lasting ways.

Although there are numerous books on alternative accounting methods, such as Lean accounting, none focus on the impact of time and how accounting practices can be modified to acknowledge the power of time.

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.

While there are numerous Lean Certification programs, most companies have their own certification paths whereby they bestow expert status upon employees after they have participated in or led a certain number of kaizen events.

A Complete Reference Covering the Latest Technology in Metal Cutting Tools, Processes, and EquipmentMetal Cutting Theory and Practice, Third Edition shapes the future of material removal in new and lasting ways.

It is no secret that Lean Six Sigma (LSS) is not as popular with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as it is with larger ones.

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.

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

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

Sustainable practices within the mining and energy sectors are assuming greater significance due to uncertainty and change within the global economy and safety, security, and health concerns.

Aluminum-Lithium Alloys: Process Metallurgy, Physical Metallurgy, and Welding provides theoretical foundations of the technological processes for melting, casting, forming, heat treatment, and welding of Al-Li alloys.

Based on the author's years of experience working with Toyota's master teachers and with companies in the midst of great change, this book follows the story established in the Shingo Prize-winning book, Andy & Me: Crisis & Transformation on the Lean Journey.

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

Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) is an innovative continuous improvement methodology for designing new products, processes, and services by integrating Lean and Six Sigma principles.

Organizations around the world are using Lean to redesign care and improve processes in a way that achieves and sustains meaningful results for patients, staff, physicians, and health systems.

This field guide can be used directly on the gemba (work area) for implementing and documenting standardized work.

There are many books available covering the Training Within Industry (TWI) programs, but few include any unique material on adaptation or modification - This dearth of new has caused practitioners to alter the programs without understanding the underlying principles.

The industrial revolution, mechanization, water and steam power, computers, and automation have given an enormous boost to manufacturing productivity.

This book focusses on a parallel approach that ensures successful acquisitions are strategic and cultural fits, which meet all synergy goals while at the same time optimizing and growing the current business.

You likely don't need any more tools, programs, or workshops to improve your hospital.

Presenting: Problem Solving Sans StatisticsEnhance your problem-solving skills, and improve your company's profitability using the methods outlined in Solving Complex Industrial Problems without Statistics.

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.

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.

With the increasing globalization and fast-paced technological advances in business today, service organizations must to respond to the changing business dynamic between employers and employees.

With the globalization of work and technological advancements in recent years, and with emphasis on service quality today, organizations have changed.

Evaluating organization development (OD) and change is critical for any executive team, project manager, or consultant who wants to see the change effort sustain and successfully evolve.

Evaluating organization development (OD) and change is critical for any executive team, project manager, or consultant who wants to see the change effort sustain and successfully evolve.

This book presents a set of tools that will aid in deciding whether a project should go ahead, be improved, or abandoned altogether by pinpointing its vulnerabilities.

This book presents a set of tools that will aid in deciding whether a project should go ahead, be improved, or abandoned altogether by pinpointing its vulnerabilities.

The furniture industry has played an important role in the history of the United States as a bellwether for manufacturing.

For undergraduate courses in Mechanical, Industrial, Metallurgical, and Materials Engineering Programs or for graduate courses in Manufacturing Science and Engineering.