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Story of a Lean Journey

This comprehensive handbook covers all the topics included in the Lean Certification Body of Knowledge: cultural enablers, continuous process improvement, consistent lean enterprise culture, and business results. Written by a team of lean experts with years of experience in the field, it will be indispensable to anyone interested in implementing and sustaining a lean initiative. The book is written, by design, at the Bronze certification knowledge. This means that the weightings used in the BOK for the Lean Bronze Certification were considered for the depth and breadth of material considered for each rubric. By addressing the BOK at for Lean Bronze, this book provides a basic understanding of the lean principles, systems, and tools at a tactical level to drive improvements with measureable results.

In factories around the world, Toyota consistently makes the highest-quality cars with the fewest defects of any competing manufacturer, while using fewer man-hours, less on-hand inventory, and half the floor space of its competitors. The Toyota Way is the first book for a general audience that explains the management principles and business philosophy behind Toyota's worldwide reputation for quality and reliability.

This video highlights the seven deadly wastes found in both administrative offices and in manufacturing processes. In this enjoyable but effective training tool, the simple process of making toast is used to represent the before condition and the target condition of a manufacturing or transaction-based process.

Tool and Manufacturing Engineers Handbook Desk Edition

The goal of troubleshooting tool and die making is to optimize your tooling investment by balancing tooling costs against the expected return on investment. This program looks at the causes of tool and die failure, and offers a step-by-step methodology to troubleshoot problems and proactively understand their cause to alleviate failure.

User's Guide to Powder Coating Fourth Edition combines information on the latest breakthroughs in the industry (notably ultraviolet-curable materials for plastic and wood products, and improved systems) and tried-and-true guidelines from the previous edition (including material selection, design considerations, surface preparation, quality control and testing, troubleshooting and safety, and more) so you can achieve superior finishes with efficiency.

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Working with Nylon: Speaking of Plastics Manufacturing Series

Everyone involved in gear design and production will benefit from the practical guidelines in this book. Refer to it on-the-job for tips on process selection, process planning, cycle time formulas and calculations, speeds and feeds, and volume considerations. This book also includes many examples to make your process planning and cycle time estimating easier.