MANAGEMENT

Keep HVAC and refrigeration equipment running at peak performance In this practical resource, a veteran service and repair professional with decades of hands-on experience walks you through the pre..

Does your company think and act ahead of technological change, ahead of the customer, and ahead of the competition? Thinking strategically requires a company to face these questions with a clear futur..

Features Describes the methods and tools to conduct effective training and auditing Introduces the Job Breakdown Sheet, a powerful training tool that gives operators the "why" for actions..

Most books dealing with change management focus on how companies reach their corporate goals, instead of on what individual leaders must do. Filling this need, Leading Business Change: A Practica..

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..

The fact that a process produces garbage is a testament to design inefficiency, and this book explains how to use the nature of that garbage to pinpoint and eliminate those inefficiencies. Lean W..

Description Hazardous energy present in systems, machines, and equipment has injured, maimed, and killed many workers. One serious injury can stop the growth of your business in its tracks. Managem..

Every project is an investment; however, traditional project management methodologies do not support assessment of the business value that enables senior management to maximize decision making. The ne..

Features Presents information in a way that is easy to understand and adopt into practice Pinpoints exactly which factors have critical impact on successfully managing risk; for example, corpo..

Summary This book brings a fresh new approach to practical problem solving in engineering, covering the critical concepts and ideas that engineers must understand to solve engineering problems.&nbs..

Today’s leading organizations recognize the importance of research and development (R&D) to maintain and grow market share. If companies want to survive into the future, they must accelerate their..

Updated to reflect PMI’s Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), Fifth Edition, this classroom-tested text continues to provide a practical overview of project management theory. It integ..

The complete project management toolkit for engineers and anyone involved in technical project mangement who needs practical, step-by-step guidance to successful project management, without an overly ..

Risk Management provides an in-depth coverage of recent innovations in the science of risk management. It includes an analysis of risk classes which have until recently been ignoted by the literature,..

Although there are many books on root cause analysis (RCA), most concentrate on team actions such as brainstorming and using quality tools to discuss the failure under investigation. These may be nece..