Lean TPM is an accessible, step-by-step guide designed to help you increase manufacturing efficiency through continuous improvement. Based on their experience of working with organizations that have successfully achieved outstanding performance, McCarthy and Rich provide the tools and techniques required to convert strategic vision into practical reality. Packed with real-life case studies and examples to highlight common pitfalls and proven approaches, the book focuses on the continuous improvement that can be achieved within any manufacturing environment by challenging wasteful working practices, releasing the potential of the workforce, and making processes work as planned. Lean TPM contains an integrated route map along with comprehensive benchmark data to enable engineers, technicians and managers to fully explore this potent technique.

Lean TPM: A Blueprint for Change

Business & Money

McCarthy, Dennis

Rich Director of Research Cardiff Business School Lean Enterprise Research Centre.Senior Research Fellow sponsored by the accountancy and audit firm Deloitte and Toche. Author of Creating the Lean Enterprise 1997 Arnacorn. Recipient of the 1998 Internatio, Nick

Management & Leadership

Butterworth-Heinemann

Why do we find polar bears only in the Arctic and penguins only in the Antarctic? Why are marsupials found only in Australia and South America? In a book that Science News called "fascinating and revelatory," Dennis McCarthy tells a story that encompasses two great, insightful theories that together explain the strange patterns of life across the world--evolution and plate tectonics. We find animals and plants where we do because, over time, the continents have moved, separating and uniting in a long, slow dance; because sea levels have risen, cutting off one bit of land from another; because new and barren volcanic islands have risen up from the sea; and because animals and plants vary greatly in their ability to travel, and separation causes the formation of new species. This is the story of how life has responded to, and has in turn altered, the ever-changing Earth. And it includes many fascinating tales--of pygmy mammoths and elephant birds and of radical ideas by bold young scientists.

Here Be Dragons: How the Study of Animal and Plant Distributions Revolutionized Our Views of Life and Earth

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Oxford University Press

This text presents for the first time the history of international business, using both a case and contextual approach. Case studies from around the world are analyzed in both their internal and external contexts. Divided into five geographical sections--Europe, North America, Central America/South America/the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia/the Western Pacific--the text features case studies of particular businesses of various periods, as well as essays on international business and economic integration in the particular regions. Introductions to each section define main themes and relate the case studies to those themes; commentaries introduce each case study and summarize key issues.
This pioneering text is suitable for upper-division courses in international business history. It can also serve as a supplementary text in courses in international economic history, international economic relations, economic development, and comparative management

International Business History: A Contextual and Case Approach

Economics

Praeger

This text presents for the first time the history of international business, using both a case and contextual approach. Case studies from around the world are analyzed in both their internal and external contexts. Divided into five geographical sections--Europe, North America, Central America/South America/the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia/the Western Pacific--the text features case studies of particular businesses of various periods, as well as essays on international business and economic integration in the particular regions. Introductions to each section define main themes and relate the case studies to those themes; commentaries introduce each case study and summarize key issues.This pioneering text is suitable for upper-division courses in international business history. It can also serve as a supplementary text in courses in international economic history, international economic relations, economic development, and comparative management

Industries

The Afghan Hound

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Pets & Animal Care

HarperCollins, Publishers

Total productive maintenance (TPM), a Japanese management protocol developed to alleviate production losses caused by machine breakdowns has moved on. Through TPM, more companies accept the concept of Zero Breakdowns as achievable. From the foundation of zero breakdowns, world class plants are able to run for complete shifts without the need for intervention. TPM is still pushing back the boundaries of what was thought possible. Driven by the proven principles of TPM, the book emphasises the need to build on existing good practices and to win commitment by delivering results. The book provides a practical guide to delivering TPM benefits and is based on the authors' first hand experience of seeing TPM in Japan. It adapts these benefits to suit the strategic needs of companies across four continents. "TPM A Route to World Class Performance" builds on Peter Willmott's earlier book, "TPM the Western Way", updating the scope of applications and tools. The TPM route map is updated to include the journey to zero breakdowns and beyond. It also provides a systematic structure to evolve from the classic Total Productive Maintenance towards Total Productive Manufacturing and deliver a Totally Productive Operation capable of world leading performance.

TPM - A Route to World Class Performance: A Route to World Class Performance

Willmott, Peter

Newnes

Merging the benefits of two well-known methodolgies, Lean Thinking and Total Productive Maintenance, Lean TPM shows how to secure increased manufacturing efficiency. Based on their experienc of working with organisations that have successfully achieved outstanding performance, McCarthy and Rich provide the tools and techniques that convert strategic vision into practical reality. Lean TPM accelerates the benefits of continuous improvement activities within any manufacturing environment by challenging wasteful working practices, releasing the potential of the workforce, targeting effectiveness and making processes work as planned. * Unites world-class manufacturing, Lean Thinking and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) * Shows how to achieve zero breakdowns * Optimises processes to deliver performance and new products efficiently * Delivers benefit from continuous improvement activities quickly Lean TPM provides a single change agenda for organisations. It will help to develop robust supply chain relationships and to optimise the value generating process. Supported by an integrated route map and comprehensive benchmark data, this book enables engineers, technicians and managers to explore this potent technique fully.

Like many good stories of the old West, this one begins in a saloon. In 1914 in El Paso, Texas, two strangers strike up a conversation at the bar--Bill Roberts, a real-life figure who died in Hico, Texas, in 1950, and a former US Army scout whose brother knew Roberts by another name: Billy the Kid. So begins The Gospel According to Billy the Kid, a tale of the old New Mexico territory, corrupt lawmen, honest ranchers, murder, betrayal, and the explosive events of the Lincoln County War that sent young Billy off seeking justice--and headed toward a bloody rendezvous with a sheriff hired to track him down. In the saloon Roberts has us imagine another story, told thirty-three years later over shots of whiskey, about a young outlaw given a second chance to find himself, to find peace, and to finally grow up and out from under the shadow of his own infamy.

The Gospel According to Billy the Kid: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

University of New Mexico Press

When capital projects fail to deliver, it is usually not due to technical reasons but a combination of behavioral pitfalls, unclear accountabilities and gaps in design, specification, and/or project-management processes. 
Early Equipment Management (EEM): Continuous Improvement for Projects explains how well known and award winning organizations avoid these weaknesses by using: <ul>
<li>Project road maps setting out clear accountabilities for each step of the concept-to-project-delivery process; </li> <li>Progressive design goals for each step to assure the delivery of low life-cycle costs; </li> <li>Processes to codify tacit knowledge, reveal latent design weaknesses, and build high performance cross-functional team collaboration; </li> <li>Project governance processes that systematically raise their organizations ability to reduce time to market for new assets, products and services with higher added value and fewer resources. Hence the books title of continuous improvement for projects. </li> </ul>
The word Early in EEM refers to the principle of trapping problems as early as possible in the project process when they are cheapest to resolve. That makes EEM relevant to all projects even those that have past the design stages. To support the use of EEM at any project step, the author has designed each chapter as a standalone topic with cross references to other chapters where relevant. This book:- <ul>
<li>Explains </li> <li>The six EEM project delivery steps setting out the tasks and accountabilities for project teams, project managers and steering committees at each step;</li> <li>How to organize projects to increase project added value through the collaboration of commercial, operational and technology stakeholders</li> <li>The wiring up behind behaviors that contribute to the failure of traditional project management approaches and how to avoid those pitfalls;</li> <li>The use of projects as a vehicle for the development of internal talent and increase capital project added value</li> <li>The systematic development of internal capabilities to deliver flawless operation from day one in less time with less resources</li> <li>How raising project governance capability directly impacts on company wide management competence </li> <li>Uses case studies to explain how to implement the EEM methodology and </li> <li>Describes how EEM principles and techniques applied to product and service development (Early Product Management) multiplies the gains from EEM.</li> </ul>
This book shows readers how and why EEM works so that they can design their own EEM road map and continuous improvement process for projects.

Early Equipment Management (EEM): Continuous Improvement for Projects

Productivity Press

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Lean TPM: A Blueprint for Change

Here Be Dragons: How the Study of Animal and Plant Distributions Revolutionized Our Views of Life and Earth

Here Be Dragons: How the Study of Animal and Plant Distributions Revolutionized Our Views of Life and Earth

International Business History: A Contextual and Case Approach

International Business History: A Contextual and Case Approach

The Afghan Hound

TPM - A Route to World Class Performance: A Route to World Class Performance

Lean TPM: A Blueprint for Change

The Gospel According to Billy the Kid: A Novel

Early Equipment Management (EEM): Continuous Improvement for Projects