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Offers a comprehensive engineering exploration of all the aspects of precision machine design-both component and system design considerations for precision machines. It addresses both theoretical analysis and practical implementation providing many real world design case studies as well as numerous examples of existing component and their characteristics.

Offers a comprehensive perspective of project management, covering the concept-to-customer cycle of complex strategic projects. This title provides readers with the explanations of portfolio and pipeline management techniques, project planning tools, risk management tools, contingency planning, trade-off analyses, and leadership techniques.

Allison Manufacturing Services (AMS) is a small manufacturer struggling to survive global competition and specialization. Looking for a way to save the company, the board hires Bill Watts, a lean consultant, as its new executive vice president. This book takes readers through the first three-years of lean application at AMS.

Outlines closed-loop leadership principles for success as a manager. This book explores differing viewpoints on management techniques. It teaches students, technical professionals, and experienced managers how to avoid many of the traps that can sidetrack a management career.

A novel that relates the fight for survival of a small, family-owned, Midwest manufacturer.

The job of Lean Tooling is to eliminate all waste in the process while it performs its purpose. After all, anybody can do it with lots of money. Lean Tooling goes far beyond quick changeovers, setup reductions, and the 5S programme. It provides autonomous maintenance for tooling, a kanban for tooling programme, complete standardization, and visual control systems.

Examines industry costs, performance, and environmental effects. The text looks at technical advances made in powder coating procedures and equipment, and it explains these concepts for those in the industry trying to maintain a competitive edge. Powder coating materials and their performance properties are looked at along with electrostatic theories, curing, and ovens.

Written largely for project managers charged with bringing automation into an existing facility, this comprehensive work takes readers through the countless steps of evaluating whether automation is needed, ways to plan the project, assembling the team, and overseeing the engineering, construction, and testing of equipment.

Presents to a lucid, theoretical vision of what a lean company should look like, as well as the organising principles that are its reason for existence and the rational for the activities that go on inside it. It's among the first lean manufacturing guides to address all facets of your company from top management to customer service.

Addresses the human aspects that companies must face when implementing new manufacturing technology. This book includes 67 recommended actions and understandings that can help implement successful change.

Describes advances, key information, case studies, and examples that can broaden your knowledge of composites materials and manufacturing methods. This text deals with composites manufacturing methods, providing tips for getting the best results that weigh the required material properties against cost and production efficiency.

This instructor's guide is to be used in conjunction with the Fundamentals of Tool Design, Sixth Edition book.

An increasing number of successful manufacturing companies use the notion of modules and product platforms. But, what is a module and how can modular product platforms increase company efficiency? This book describes modular design, the driving forces behind it and how it can help companies shorten developmental lead times, manage a high degree of customization, and reinforce product identity.

The systemic use of kaizen events establishes the technical and cultural foundation for principle-driven kaizen - the powerful combination of kaizen events and daily kaizen activities. The Kaizen Event Fieldbook brings this all together as an indispensable reference for lean leaders and implementers within any industry and for use at any stage within the lean implementation journey.

The first step to implementing kaizen in any organization is to provide training on the Toyota Production System (TPS). This title provides this training material and explains why the TPS tools, including kaizen, must work in tandem with a fresh way of thinking to bring about cultural change. It also includes reusable charts and forms.

Hitchhikers do not travel a fixed path. They intentionally wander so they can learn and grow along the way. Embarking on the lean journey is similar; there are many roads on which to wander and no single one is right for all. This title concludes with interviews of lean practitioners on the front lines of change at Chrysler, DTE Energy, and Nemak.

A how-to guide to shortening delivery times, eliminating waste, improving quality, and reducing costs. It describes not only what to do, but includes many tools useful to the reader describing how to do it. It explores tools including kaizen, value stream mapping, takt time, determining optimum lot sizes, setup reduction and problem solving.

Takes readers on a comprehensive journey through the development of manufacturing cells, including: defining what a cell is, the planning approaches of cell development, analyzing flow and overcoming problems along the way, operational procedures, refining and evaluating initial cell plans, detailed cell planning, and designing the workplace.