Production and industrial engineering

Work is all around us and permeates everything we do and everyday activities.

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

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.

This book describes how to effectively implement cell manufacturing.

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.

Process Implementation Through 5S: Laying the Foundation for Lean explains how to implement standardized work and visual controls through Plan Do Check Adjust (PDCA).

This textbook presents methodologies and applications associated with multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA), especially for those students with an interest in industrial engineering.

This textbook presents methodologies and applications associated with multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA), especially for those students with an interest in industrial engineering.

An incredible ability awaits managers who practice Theory of Constraints (TOC) techniques: they can take a problem, look beyond the less important details, and directly identify the source of trouble.

Today's managers encounter tremendous resistance in getting others to buy-in to change.

This cutting edge, "e;how to"e; manual details proven methods for turning around chronically late, overbudget, and underperforming projects.

The inspection process is one of the most important steps in manufacturing industries because it safeguards high quality products and customer satisfaction.

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.

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

This new book in The LEAN Playbook Series supplies step-by-step guidelines on how to properly implement 5S (Sort, Set in Order, Scrub, Standardize, Sustain) and the visual workplace.

This book provides a roadmap for successful implementation of innovation for organizations working as subcontractors or suppliers for the federal government.

This book discusses management decision-making under accident conditions as a vehicle to confirm the importance of clear decision-making guided by a systems approach on how an organization functions related to the role of managers, operators, and the operation of the plant.

In an age when most business plans extend only to the next quarterly reporting period, the authors of this book propose an audaciously longer view of future planning.

Addressing 30 statistical myths in the areas of data, estimation, measurement system analysis, capability, hypothesis testing, statistical inference, and control charts, this book explains how to understand statistics rather than how to do statistics.

Commercializing a knowledge-based product or service requires a realistic, methodical approach combined with a great deal of perseverance.

Although regularly introducing new products or services is the lifeblood of most industries, bringing them to market can be fraught with peril.

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

Inventive Engineering is an emerging engineering science focused on the conceptual designing processes whereby creative, or inventive, designs are developed.

Developed in the early 70s in Japan, the Kansei Engineering (KE) method gives you the tools to develop profitable and well-received products and services.

There is often a deep disconnect between the project team's goals and those of the organization.

Designed to give non-engineers an understanding of systems engineering, Systems Engineering Simplified presents a gentle introduction to the subject and its importance in any profession.

A Firsthand Look at the Role of the Industrial EngineerThe industrial engineer helps decide how best to utilize an organization's resources to achieve company goals and objectives.

This book provides a variety of answers in its description and discussion of new, sometimes radical approaches to `usability evaluation', now an increasingly common business tool.

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

Manufacturers are becoming more aware of human factors in product design as a major competitive issue.

Demands for improvements in aerospace and automotive energy-efficiency, performance, corrosion resistance, body stiffness and style have increased the use of adhesive bonds to help meet those demands, by providing joining technology that accommodates a wider variety of materials and design options.

"e;There is no strategic investment that has a higher return than investing in good pricing, and the text by Gallego and Topaloghu provides the best technical treatment of pricing strategy and tactics available.

This is the first book to cover GRASP (Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedures), a metaheuristic that has enjoyed wide success in practice with a broad range of applications to real-world combinatorial optimization problems.

This book discusses the models and tools available for solving configuration problems, emphasizes the value of model integration to obtain comprehensive and robust configuration decisions, proposes solutions for supply chain configuration in the presence of stochastic and dynamic factors, and illustrates application of the techniques discussed in applied studies.

This book covers in detail the various aspects of joining materials to form parts.

Now that were moving from a product economy to a digital service economy, software is becoming critical for navigating our everyday lives.

Now that were moving from a product economy to a digital service economy, software is becoming critical for navigating our everyday lives.

This handbook serves as a complement to the Handbook on Data Envelopment Analysis (eds, W.

This handbook focuses on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) applications in operations analytics which are fundamental tools and techniques for improving operation functions and attaining long-term competitiveness.

This handbook compiles state-of-the-art empirical studies and applications using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA).

This book focuses on the tactical planning level for spare parts management.

This handbook represents a milestone in the progression of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA).

This book provides readers with the fundamental, analytical, and quantitative knowledge of machining process planning and optimization based on advanced and practical understanding of machinery, mechanics, accuracy, dynamics, monitoring techniques, and control strategies that they need to understanding machining and machine tools.

This book is devoted to analysis and design of supply chain contracts with stochastic demand.

Lithic analysts have been criticized for being atheoretical in their approach, or at least for not contributing to building archaeological theory.

Das Buch "FlexCAR: Die Forschungsplattform von morgen" beschreibt ein innovatives Forschungsprojekt, das sich mit flexiblen Produkt- und Produktionskonzepten für modulare Fahrzeuge beschäftigt.

"e;There is no strategic investment that has a higher return than investing in good pricing, and the text by Gallego and Topaloghu provides the best technical treatment of pricing strategy and tactics available.