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Lean Manufacturing Implementation: A Complete Execution Manual for Any Size Manufacturer
Dennis P. Hobbs
J. Ross Publishing, Inc., 2003
Lean Secrets
It is very unusual when a consultant reveals their secrets to implementation concepts. Dennis Hobbs tells how to implement lean on a step by step basis. The secrets of kanban calculation in addition to line balancing are exposed. This book is a critical resource for ...
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Make or Break: How Manufacturers Can Leap from Decline to Revitalization (Future of Business Series)
Kaj Grichnik, Conrad Winkler
McGraw-Hill, 2008
The future of manufacturing? There's "bad news" but also "good news"
This is one of the volumes in "The Future of Business from Booz & Company" series in which the firm's senior-level executives explain especially significant developments and emerging trends within major sectors of the global marketplace. (Booz & Company is the new ...
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The Kaizen Blitz: Accelerating Breakthroughs in Productivity and Performance
Anthony C. Laraia, Patricia E. Moody, ...
Wiley, 1999
"Continuous Improvement" of What?
As you probably know already, the word "kaizen" is a Japanese term meaning "to make better" with the implication that such effort should be continuous, indeed intensive and unrelenting. Since 1994, the Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME) has developed a ...
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The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer
Jeffrey Liker
American Media International, 2005
To understand this company's success, first understand its DNA
I read this book when it was first published in 2004 and recently re-read it, curious to know how well Jeffrey Liker's explanation of Toyota's management principles and lean production values have held up. My conclusion? Very well.
No good purpose would be served ...
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The Essential Guide for Buying from China's Manufacturers: The 10 Steps to Success
James Lord
BookSurge Publishing, 2007
Essential reading
This book really lifts the lid on Chinese business practices; having this information significantly enhances your ability to anticipate and prevent problems in China. Without this information you can blunder along with Chinese companies for years and not even realise ...
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Mastering and Managing the FDA Maze: Medical Device Overview: A Training and Management Desk Reference for ...
Gordon Harnack
ASQ Quality Press, 1999
OK, but I didn't "look inside this book"
Use the "look inside this book" function to review the table of contents, etc. I thought the book would include some information on FDA device approvals but it does not. This book is about manufacturing, FDA product inspections, when the FDA reviews compliance ...
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Extreme Toyota: Radical Contradictions That Drive Success at the World's Best Manufacturer
Emi Osono, Norihiko Shimizu, ...
Wiley, 2008
Good manager level book on TPS.
Having read most of the detailed TPS books, this one was a bit to theoretical. Realize it was likely written for the MBA crowd....
I still find it a bit odd that Toyota subject books tend to avoid the fact that no company is perfect. Wouldn't trade the hectic ...
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Encyclopedia of American Silver Manufacturers (Schiffer Book for Collectors)
Dorothy T. Rainwater, Martin Fuller, ...
Schiffer Publishing, 2003
Useful for the amateur archaeologist/house restoration hobbyist
I got this book through inter-library loan on the advice of an online silver seller and hobbyist? expert? We are restoring an 1800s farmhouse in New York state, and have found various bits of silver and pottery and other things. Everything is quite worn and dirty ...
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Rules and Guidance for Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Distributors 2007: aka the Orange Guide
Pharmaceutical Press, 2007
The evolving Orange Guide
It's nice to have an updated set of EU GMPs in book form. The problem is that the regulations continue to change, so the printed copy is never quite current.
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The Lean Assessment for Job Shops and Small Manufacturers
Roger Kremer; Don Tapping
MCS Media, Inc., 2005
Outstanding
I found the book to be extremely helpful. I've used it with several of my job shop clients as part of their lean transition and it was an invaluable, easy-to-grasp tool. It has a solid understanding of the particulars that job shops face and I highly recommend it.
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Outsourcing the Sales Function: The Real Costs of Field Sales
Erin Anderson, Bob Trinkle
South-Western Educational Pub, 2005
Excellent -carefully written and thoroughly researched
This ranks as one of the best written books and a must have. I recommend this to anyone in marketing and sales, from entry level sales people to marketing and sales managers and even CEOs/CFOs. I have over 20 years in establishing new markets, recruiting and managing ...
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Wood Pelletization Source Book: A Sample Business Plan for the Potential Pellet Manufacturer
Diane Pub Co, 1995
mercedes-benz business planning
The operation -competing with operations -scope of operation -ongoing operation Management -company organization -management team -board of director -management compensation
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The American Cane Mill: A History of the Machines, the Manufacturers, Sugar Cane and Sorghum
Don Howard Dean
McFarland, 2008
The southern agricultural landscape is enriched by the occasional sighting of an old cane mill along some winding road in rural America. Now reposing after a lifetime of labor, these mills were once the center of activity for numerous families each fall as juice was squeezed from the cane, evaporated in a kettle or evaporator pan, and converted ...
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America's Instrument: The Banjo in the Ninteenth Century
Philip F. Gura, James F. Bollman
The University of North Carolina Press, 1999
Another "must have" for vintage banjo lovers and collectors
At last, another important book has emerged to stand with the few other necessary references on early American 5-string banjos. Unlike the two fine Tsumura books which are primarily photographic essays of considerable magnitude, Gura and Bollman's treatise combines a ...
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Becoming Lean: Inside Stories of U.S. Manufacturers
Productivity Press, 1997
A Data Bound Argument for Lean
This is the real stuff - not academic theory but real examples of "lean" written by the people that made it happen. The concluding chapter on "what we have learned about becoming lean" pulls it all together in a neat package. This is a must read for anyone who ...
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