In business today, the marketplace is a battlefield. Every business professional who takes on leadership responsiblities must be educated in the art and science of managing organizations in competitive situations. The Way of Strategy unites the legacies of military and political teaches such as Sun Tzu, Nicolo Machiavelli, Miyamoto Musashi, and others with modern business examples showing how their timeless principles apply to personal and organizational success. Readers will discover: how the ISO 9000 series of quality management standards and the Baldridge Award emphasize the same elements as classic military principles; how military strategy can be used to achieve success in business leadership, management, and tactics; why the concepts or right conduct is the keystone of flexible, dynamic, and entrepreneurial organizations.eee

The Way of Strategy

Business & Money

Levinson, William A.

Finance

Asq Pr

Book by Levinson, William A., Levinson

Spc Essentials and Productivity Improvement: A Manufacturing Approach

Tumbelty, Frank

Management & Leadership

Book by Levinson, William A., Tumbelty, Frank

Transparency Masters to Accompany Spc Essentials and Productivity Improvement: A Manufacturing Approach

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Helps leaders train frontline workers in basic principles and goals of the new ISO 9000:2000 standard and the provisions for the QS-9000 standard, with short case studies, discussion questions, exercises, and solutions. Includes guidelines for instructors and trainers, a pre-class questionnaire, and an outline of a system for frontline workers to initiate quality and safety improvement projects. Levinson is an engineer and industrial statistician in the private sector. He is a senior member of the American Society for Quality. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Iso 9000 at the Front Line

Science & Math

Technology

Lean Enterprise: A Synergistic Approach to Minimizing Waste shows how modern companies can use lean techniques to achieve the kind of success that Ford, Toyota, and Dell have enjoyed. This book presents lean enterprise as a set of mutually supporting techniques and programs, all of which focus on the elimination of ‘friction,’ or non-value-adding activities, from the enterprise. The concept of friction (Japan’s muda, or waste) is very simple, but everyone in the organization must realize that it is easy to overlook. The ability to identify friction on sight is vital to creating a lean enterprise, and through the examples of Henry Ford, this book will equip the reader with the skills to achieve optimal results.

Lean Enterprise: A Synergistic Approach to Minimizing Waste

Rerick, Raymond A.

On the manufacturing shop floor, the principle of "value comes from the production of parts rather than charts" crucially applies when using practical statistical process control (SPC). The production worker should need to enter only a sample’s measurements to get immediately actionable information as to whether corrective action (e.g., as defined by a control plan’s reaction plan) is necessary for an out-of-control situation, and should not have to perform any calculations, draw control charts, or use sophisticated statistical software. This book’s key benefit for readers consists of spreadsheet-deployable solutions with all the mathematical precision of a vernier along with the simplicity of a stone ax. 
Traditional SPC relies on the assumption that sufficient data are available with which to estimate the process parameters and set suitable control limits. Many practical applications involve, however, short production runs for which no process history is available. There are nonetheless tested and practical control methods such as PRE-Control and short-run SPC that use the product specifications to set appropriate limits. PRE-Control relies solely on the specification limits while short-run SPC starts with the assumption that the process is capable―that is, at least a 4-sigma process, and works from there to set control limits. Cumulative Sum (CUSUM) and exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) charts also can be used for this purpose. Specialized charts can also track multiple part characteristics, and parts with different specifications, simultaneously. This is often useful, for example, where the same tool is engaged in mixed-model production. 
Readers will be able to deploy practical and simple control charts for production runs for which no prior history is available and control the processes until enough data accumulate to enable the traditional methods (assuming it ever does). They will be able to track multiple product features with different specifications and also control mixed-model applications in which a tool generates very short runs of parts with different specifications. The methods will not require software beyond readily available spreadsheets, nor will they require specialized tables that are not widely available. Process owners and quality engineers will be able to perform all supporting calculations in Microsoft Excel, and without the need for advanced software.

Short-Run SPC for Manufacturing and Quality Professionals

Economics

Productivity Press

Reshore Production Now

Business Culture

The normal or bell curve distribution is far more common in statistics textbooks than it is in real factories, where processes follow non-normal and often highly skewed distributions. Statistical Process Control for Real-World Applications shows how to handle non-normal applications scientifically and explain the methodology to suppliers and customers. The book exposes the pitfalls of assuming normality for all processes, describes how to test the normality assumption, and illustrates when non-normal distributions are likely to apply. It demonstrates how to handle uncooperative real-world processes that do not follow textbook assumptions. The text explains how to set realistic control limits and calculate meaningful process capability indices for non-normal applications. The book also addresses multivariate systems, nested variation sources, and process performance indices for non-normal distributions. The book includes examples from Minitab®, StatGraphics® Centurion, and MathCAD and covers how to use spreadsheets to give workers a visual signal when an out of control condition is present. The included user disk provides Visual Basic for Applications functions to make tasks such as distribution fitting and tests for goodness of fit as routine as possible. The book shows you how to set up meaningful control charts and report process performance indices that actually reflect the process' ability to deliver quality.

Statistical Process Control for Real-World Applications

CRC-Press

The success of a Lean manufacturing program depends far more on organization-wide leverage of Lean manufacturing tools than it does on the tools themselves. To this the organization must add the human relations aspects that earn buy-in and engagement by all members of the workforce, to the extent that workers will react immediately and decisively to the presence of waste. The synergy of the human and technological aspects of Lean form what Henry Ford called a universal code for the achievement of world-class results in any enterprise, and which he put into practice to deliver unprecedented bottom line results. This book expands upon and systemizes this universal code into a structure or framework that promotes organizational self-audits and continuous improvement. The book's first section offers a foundation of four simple but comprehensive Lean key performance indicators (KPIs): waste of the time of things (as in cycle time), waste of the time of people, waste of energy, and waste of materials. The Toyota Production System's seven wastes are all measurable in terms of these four KPIs, which also cover the key metrics of Eliyahu Goldratt's theory of constraints: throughput, inventory, and operating expense. The first section then adds a proactive improvement cycle that sets out to look for trouble by isolating processes for analytical purposes and measuring and then balancing inputs and outputs to force all wastes to become visible. It is in fact technically impossible for any waste of material or energy to hide from what chemical engineers call a material and energy balance. Application of this book's content should therefore satisfy most provisions of the ISO 14001 environmental management system standard and the new ISO 50001 energy management system standard. The second section consists of an unofficial (and therefore customizable) standard against which the organization can audit its Lean management system. The unofficial standard is designed to be compatible with ISO 9001:2008 so internal auditors can assess both systems simultaneously. Each provision includes numerous examples of questions that promote audits in a narrative form as opposed to yes/no checklists or Likert scale ratings. The unofficial standard can also be downloaded (without the assessment questions) from the publisher's Web site. The third section elaborates in detail on the second and provides numerous real-world examples of applications.

Lean Management System LMS:2012

Routledge

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The Way of Strategy

Spc Essentials and Productivity Improvement: A Manufacturing Approach

Transparency Masters to Accompany Spc Essentials and Productivity Improvement: A Manufacturing Approach

Iso 9000 at the Front Line

Lean Enterprise: A Synergistic Approach to Minimizing Waste

Short-Run SPC for Manufacturing and Quality Professionals

Short-Run SPC for Manufacturing and Quality Professionals

Reshore Production Now

Statistical Process Control for Real-World Applications

Lean Management System LMS:2012