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Description: The automotive industry faces many challenges, including increased global competition, the need for higher-performance vehicles, a reduction in costs and tighter envi..

This third edition updates the information in the previously published sections, adds, new sections to incorporate the new development of the past decade. and broadens the horizons of the work from an..

AWS (The American Welding Society) is the worldwide leader in certification programs for the welding industry. Since the CWI (Certified Welding Inspectors) program inception in 1976, AWS has certified..

Inspired by the overwhelming response to the "One Good Idea" column in Quality Progress, ASQ's monthly magazine, the book 101 Good Ideas was born. This unique resource brings together a distinctive co..

20 Keys has helped many manufacturing companies integrate the top manufacturing improvement methods into a coordinated system for drastic and continual improvement in involvement, quality, andproducti..

In this important sourcebook, JIT expert Hiroyuki Hirano provides the most vital information available on the visual workplace, a critical but often overlooked area of continuous improvement. This boo..

The five pillars of the visual workplace: sort, set in order, shine, standardize and sustain are the most fundamental and often overlooked aspects in continuous improvement initiatives. Together, thes..

Summary The third edition of this textbook improves on the strengths of the earlier editions both in content and presentation. Of the important features of the textbook is the inclusion of examples..

This book brings the reader into intimate association with a hypothetical executive of a major corporation as he begins his journey to quality. The leader’s journal reveals chaos as he worries, errs, ..

A Practical Guide to Quality Management in Spinning begins with the concepts of quality management system and then the objectives of product. The book explains the concepts of product objectives and t..

This American success story is a direct result of quality improvement. The author explains and teaches the ideas and methodologies used in rebuilding StorageTek. The book uses many of the actual flowc..

Written by the industrial engineer who developed SMED for Toyota, this book contains hundreds of illustrations and photographs, as well as twelve chapter-length case studies. Here are the most complet..

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 becam..

The application of accelerated testing theory is a difficult proposition, yet one that can result in considerable time and cost savings, as well as increasing a product's useful life. In Accelerated T..

State-of-the-Art Coverage of the Most Widely Used Acceptance Sampling Techniques Cohesively Incorporates Theory and Practice Reflecting the recent resurgence of interest in this field, Accept..