The Shingo Production Management System: Improving Process Functions

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:

• Historical revolutions in production.
• A production management revolution in the United States.
• A scientific thinking mechanism for improvement.
• Creating an improvement plan.
• Basic flaws in conventional production management improvement.
• Process functions and operational functions.
• The effect of the division of labor on the development of work.