A combination of source inspection and mistake-proofing devices is the only method to get you to zero defects. Shigeo Shingo shows you how this proven system for reducing errors turns out the highest quality products in the shortest period of time. Shingo provides 112 specific examples of poka-yoke development devices on the shop floor, most of them costing less than $100 to implement. He also discusses inspection systems, quality control circles, and the function of management with regard to inspection.

Zero Quality Control

Shingo, Shigeo

Routledge

A combination of source inspection and mistake-proofing devices is the only method to get you to zero defects. Shigeo Shingo shows you how this proven system for reducing errors turns out the highest quality products in the shortest period of time. Shingo provides 112 specific examples of poka-yoke development devices on the shop floor, most of them costing less than $100 to implement. He also discusses inspection systems, quality control circles, and the function of management with regard to inspection.

Business & Money

Economics

Here is a great introduction to the remarkable mind of Shigeo Shingo, indisputably one of the great forces in manufacturing. In this book Dr. Shingo describes his approach to manufacturing improvements, developed and refined over the course of a brilliant career. He called it the Scientific Thinking Mechanism (STM).
The Sayings of Shigeo Shingo leads you through the five stages of STM, with appropriate examples taken from notes Dr. Shingo collected during his consulting trips to American and Japanese plants. It shows how, in many cases, the most brilliant ideas are often so simple they're overlooked. Or they're dismissed because they seem ridiculous:
<ul>
<li>A Japanese plant, after first rejecting the idea as "too silly," finds that unhulled rice is ideal for smoothing the rough surfaces on pressure-formed ebonite switches</li>
<li>Granville-Phillips, in Boulder, Colorado, reduced defects to zero in one process after Dr. Shingo suggested illuminating circuit boards from below to reduce errors involved in the insertion of diodes and resistors</li>
</ul>
The Sayings of Shigeo Shingo is must reading for plant managers and engineers. It formalizes the powerful and creative way of thinking that Shingo himself used time and again to overcome problems that seemed virtually insurmountable.

The Sayings of Shigeo Shingo: Key Strategies for Plant Improvement (Japanese Management)

Productivity Press

This is the "green book" that started it all -- the first book in English on JIT, written from the engineer's viewpoint. When Omark Industries bought 500 copies and studied it companywide, Omark became the American pioneer in JIT.
Here is Dr. Shingo's classic industrial engineering rationale for the priority of process-based over operational improvements in manufacturing. He explains the basic mechanisms of the Toyota production system, examines production as a functional network of processes and operations, and then discusses the mechanism necessary to make JIT possible in any manufacturing plant.
<ul>
<li>Provides original source material on Just-ln-Time</li>
<li>Demonstrates new ways to think about profit, inventory, waste, and productivity</li>
<li>Explains the principles of leveling, standard work procedures, multi-machine handling, supplier relations, and much more</li>
</ul>
If you are a serious student of manufacturing, you will benefit greatly from reading this primary resource on the powerful fundamentals of JIT.

A Study of the Toyota Production System: From an Industrial Engineering Viewpoint (Produce What Is Needed, When It's Needed)

Dillon, Andrew P.

Non-Stock Production

Shingo, whose work at Toyota provided the foundation for JIT, teaches how to implement non-stock production in your JIT manufacturing operations. The culmination of his extensive writings on efficient production management and continuous improvement, this book is an essential companion volume to his other landmark books on key elements of JIT, including SMED and poka-yoke.
It includes:
<ul>
<li>Fundamental flaws in European and American production philosophies.</li>
<li>Basic concepts for improving production systems.</li>
<li>The "scientific thinking mechanism" -- a new approach to improvement.</li>
<li>Implementing a production method in an age of authorized stock production.</li>
<li>Development of production functions in the age of non-stock production.</li>
<li>Significance of the different production systems.</li>
</ul>

Non-Stock Production: The Shingo System of Continuous Improvement

Industries

Here, in Dr. Shingo's final book, he gives us a comprehensive system for the improvement of production functions. This book's broad scope encompasses such diverse topics as Value Engineering, CAD/CAM techniques, and information management. If you've never read Shingo, it will give you an overview of his brilliant concepts. If you are familiar with his genius, you'll find it a much-needed network of his ideas.
It includes:
<ul>
<li>Historical revolutions in production.</li>
<li>A production management revolution in the United States.</li>
<li>A scientific thinking mechanism for improvement.</li>
<li>Creating an improvement plan.</li>
<li>Basic flaws in conventional production management improvement.</li>
<li>Process functions and operational functions.</li>
<li>The effect of the division of labor on the development of work.</li>
</ul>

The Shingo Production Management System: Improving Process Functions

The powerful knowledge contained in this book can make your workplace more productive, your job simpler, and everything more satisfying. It's about how to do equipment or product changeovers in record time--often in less than 10 minutes. The method you'll learn here is called SMED, short for "Single-Minute Exchange of Die" (the "single" here means a single-digit number of minutes). 
Developed from a longer book, A Revolution in Manufacturing: The SMED System (cat no. PP9903), written for managers, this book is written for frontline production and assembly associates. It presents an overview of the reasons why SMED is important for companies and employees, sets out the three basic stages of SMED, and then devotes a separate chapter to each of these stages. The first chapter of the book is like an "owner's manual" that tells you how to get the most out of your reading time by using the margin assists, summaries, and other features of the book to help pull out exactly what you need. 
One of the most effective ways to use this book is to read and discuss it with other employees. The authors planned the book so that it can be used this way, organizing the book into chunks of information that can be covered in a series of short sessions. Each chapter includes reflection questions to stimulate group discussion. A Learning Package is also available (catalog no.PP7126), which includes a leader's guide, overhead transparencies to summarize major points, and color slides showing examples of SMED applications in different kinds of companies.

Quick Changeover for Operators: The SMED System (The Shopfloor Series)

Los Japoneses consideran a Shigeo Shingo el decano de los consultores de productividad y calidad. Ha comunicado su enfoque hacia la mejora fundamental a millaresde trabajadores, directores, y altos ejecutivos en cientos de companias tales como Toyota, Honda y Matsuchita. En eltranscurso de su carrera, el Sr. Shingo escribi ms deveinte libros los cuales revelan la profundidad de su pensamiento sobrelos principios de la ingeneria industrial; expresi?n de sudedicaci?n a la mejora de la productividad y la calidad en cadaaspecto de la fabricaci?n. El Sr. Shingo desea que entendamos porqu? fabricamos como lo hacemos -- de manera que podamos entenderc?mo debemos cambiar. Argumentando a part?r de la teorfa XY de direcci?n de McGregor, Shingo adems demanda respetogenuino para la humanidad y creatividad de los trabajadores y solicita seles de una tarea que les desaffe y utilice sus capacidades. Este libro es una lectura obligada para todo gerente ingenieroque quiera competir con ?xito en los mercados internacionales. La parte ms importante del Justo a Tiempo es el cambio rpido de todos. Muestra c?mo reducir, en forma drstica, los tiempos de cambios en un promedio de 98%!!!

Una revolutión en la productión: el sistema SMED, 3a Edicion (Spanish Edition)

The powerful knowledge contained in this book can make your workplace more productive, your job simpler, and everything more satisfying. It's about how to do equipment or product changeovers in record time--often in less than 10 minutes. The method you'll learn here is called SMED, short for "Single-Minute Exchange of Die" (the "single" here means a single-digit number of minutes). 
Developed from a longer book, A Revolution in Manufacturing: The SMED System (cat no. PP9903), written for managers, this book is written for frontline production and assembly associates. It presents an overview of the reasons why SMED is important for companies and employees, sets out the three basic stages of SMED, and then devotes a separate chapter to each of these stages. The first chapter of the book is like an "owner's manual" that tells you how to get the most out of your reading time by using the margin assists, summaries, and other features of the book to help pull out exactly what you need. 
One of the most effective ways to use this book is to read and discuss it with other employees. The authors planned the book so that it can be used this way, organizing the book into chunks of information that can be covered in a series of short sessions. Each chapter includes reflection questions to stimulate group discussion. A Learning Package is also available (catalog no.PP7126), which includes a leader's guide, overhead transparencies to summarize major points, and color slides showing examples of SMED applications in different kinds of companies.

The Zero Quality control system (ZQC) is a mistake-proofing approach that prevents defects by monitoring process conditions at the source and correcting errors that would cause defects. In this breakthrough approach, mistake-proofing devices called poka-yoke are used to check and give feedback about each product or operation in the process, not just a sample. This package helps you begin the education process by establishing the foundation to reach this goal: placing powerful and proven improvement tools such as ZQC and mistake-proofing in the hands of your company's entire workforce. A strong complement to your training on mistake-proofing. 
 The Learning Package does the following:
<li>Provides the foundation for launching a full-scale implementation process </li>
<li>Encourages workers to get actively involved in their own learning process </li>
<li>Provides immediate practical skills for participants </li>
<li>Offers a flexible curriculum that adapts to unique audience requirements </li>
<li>Furnishes the tools to develop your own in-house education program for operators. SHIPPING NOTICE: Learning Packages carry a $15 shipping charge.
This Learning Package includes:
<ul>
<li>Leader's guide</li>
<li>5 copies of Mistake-Proofing for Operators</li>
<li>A CD filled with additional presentation materials.</li>
<li>1 copy of the classic book: ZQC: Source Inspection and the Poka-Yoke System</li>
</ul>
</li>

Mistake-Proofing for Operators Learning Package (The Shopfloor Series)

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Zero Quality Control

Zero Quality Control

The Sayings of Shigeo Shingo: Key Strategies for Plant Improvement (Japanese Management)

A Study of the Toyota Production System: From an Industrial Engineering Viewpoint (Produce What Is Needed, When It's Needed)

Non-Stock Production: The Shingo System of Continuous Improvement

The Shingo Production Management System: Improving Process Functions

Quick Changeover for Operators: The SMED System (The Shopfloor Series)

Una revolutión en la productión: el sistema SMED, 3a Edicion (Spanish Edition)

Quick Changeover for Operators: The SMED System (The Shopfloor Series)

Mistake-Proofing for Operators Learning Package (The Shopfloor Series)