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  • The Product Wheel Handbook

    Creating Heijunka in High-Mix Process Operations

    by Peter L. King, Jennifer S. King ...
    Product Wheel is a scheduling strategy that has practical, well-proven methods for enabling operations managers to find the optimum balance between inventory, operating cost, and customer service, particularly useful in high-mix process operations. They do so in a way that increases throughput to either increase revenue or reduce operating cost while providing a structured, repeatable ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Production Scheduling for the Process Industries

    Strategies, Systems, and Culture

    by Peter L. King, Mac Jacob, Noel Peberdy ...
    This book is aimed at manufacturing and planning managers who struggle to bring a greater degree of stability and more effective use of assets to their operations, not realizing the degree to which production scheduling affects those objectives. It has been reported that 75% of the problems on the manufacturing floor are caused by activities outside the plant floor. Poor production scheduling ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Lean for the Process Industries

    Dealing with Complexity, Second Edition

    by Peter L. King ...
    Compared to its widespread implementation across almost all areas of production, Lean improvement efforts lag within the process industries. While many innovators have successfully applied Lean principles to these industries during the past three decades, most of those pioneering efforts were never recorded to guide the improvement efforts of others.Drawing on more than 40 years of application ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Product Wheel Handbook

    Creating Balanced Flow in High-Mix Process Operations

    by Peter L. King, Jennifer S. King ...
    The Product Wheel (PW) design process has practical methods for finding the optimum sequence, minimizing changeover costs, and freeing up useful capacity. So much so, that the DuPont Company and Exxon Mobil are just a few companies that have used the product wheel concept to achieve and sustain a competitive advantage.Breaking down a fairly comple ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Value Stream Mapping for the Process Industries

    Creating a Roadmap for Lean Transformation

    by Peter L. King, Jennifer S. King ...
    Providing a framework that highlights waste and its negative effects on process performance, value stream maps (VSMs) are essential components for successful Lean initiatives. While the conventional VSM format has the basic structure to effectively describe process operations, it must be adapted and expanded to serve its purpose in the process indu ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

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    by Steve Borris ...
    Proven methods for diagnosing problems, improving processes, and increasing profitsIn Strategic Lean Mapping, continuous improvement expert Steven Borris reveals how to visually document your organization's processes and identify problematic issues. Find out how to blend and then apply select techniques from Lean Manufacturing, Theory of Constraints, RCM (Reliability-Centered Maintenance), TPM ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Quality Control for Dummies

    by Larry Webber, Michael Wallace ...
    So you’ve been asked to lead a quality control initiative? Or maybe you’ve been assigned to a quality team. Perhaps you’re a CEO whose main concern is to make your company faster, more efficient, and less expensive. Whatever your role is, quality control is a critical concept in every industry and profession.Quality Control For Dummies is the straightforward, easy guide to improving your company’s ... Read more

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  • The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course: Operations Management

    by Linda Brennan ...
    Series series McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Courses
    Take a crash course in boosting operational efficiency!Whether a business manufactures trucks, delivers packages, or sells coffee, it lives and breathes on its operations. Without exception. Ensuring smooth, efficient processes is a challenging task--but the rewards are immense. The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course: Operations Management puts you on the fast track to bolstering and managing the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Manager's Guide to Operations Management

    by John Kamauff ...
    The secrets to improving operations while maintaining the highest qualityHow do you operate at maximum efficiency with minimum cost? Manager’s Guide to Operations Management addresses one of the most pressing business issues of our time by offering easy-toimplement advice on creating the most effective, streamlined operations possible. This quick-reference guide explains how to:Improve your ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • IoT Inc: How Your Company Can Use the Internet of Things to Win in the Outcome Economy

    by Bruce Sinclair ...
    Grab the top spot in your industry by seizing the power of IoTSmart products are everywhere. They’re in our companies, in our homes, in our pockets. People love these products. But what they love more is what these products do—and for anyone running a business today, outcomes are the key.The Internet of Things (IoT) is the point of connection between products and the results they deliver—it’s ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Project Quality Management

    Why, What and How

    by Ken Rose ...
    This highly focused book approaches quality specifically in the context of project management. It goes beyond the usual descriptions and advice for manufactured products to give project managers a framework of deliberate steps to take in managing quality for the benefit of project outcomes in any domain. This user-friendly guide presents tools and techniques that implement the general methods ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Operations Management For Dummies

    by Mary Ann Anderson, Edward J. Anderson, Geoffrey Parker ...
    The plain language guide to getting things running smoothly in the world of businessOperations management is all about efficiency, and Operations Management For Dummies is all about efficiently teaching you what you need to know about this business hot topic. This book tracks typical operations management MBA courses, and it will help you un-muddle concepts like process mapping, bottlenecks, Lean ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

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