This is a "hands-on, how-to" guide to making significant improvements in a manufacturing plant. Uniquely written in a step-by-step format for both managers and operators, Implementing World Class Manufacturing allows everyone in a facility to participate in making the business the best at what it does - now and in the future.

Implementing World Class Manufacturing: A Bridge To Your Manufacturing Survival - Shop Floor Manual

Business & Money

Rubrich, Larry

Watson, Madelyn

Management & Leadership

WCM Associates

Written for both machine operators and managers, Implementing World Class Manufacturing - 2nd Edition, by Larry Rubrich and Mattie Watson, allows everyone in your facility to participate in making your business the best at what you do - now and in the future. In our Second Edition, the application of the waste elimination techniques of Lean and World Class Manufacturing have been expanded to include all parts of manufacturing businesses (the office also) and to all types of business in general. This shop floor manual teaches leadership, empowerment, and the advanced manufacturing techniques required to secure your future, today!

Implementing World Class Manufacturing: A Bridge to Your Manufacturing Survival

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Shrink-wrapped set contains two lean manufacturing workbooks - "Implementing World Class Manufacturing" by Larry Rubrich and Madelyn Watson (424 pages, spiral bound) and "Demystifying Six Sigma" by Alan Larson (181 Pages, Softcover, published by AMACOM) BLENDING AND USING BOTH LEAN MANUFACTURING AND SIX SIGMA TO BECOME A WORLD CLASS COMPANY - THESE WORKBOOKS ILLUSTRATE HOW! Many business leaders and managers are confused about which of these techniques (Lean or Six Sigma) that they should implement in their company. The reality is that you need to implement both! Lean is absolutely essential in empowering the workforce. Empowering the workforce is a required element int eh journey to become a World Class company. It is designed to obtain the involvement and participation of the entire workforce as well as providing them wiht waste elimination tools that they can understand and use, such as 5S, Teams, TPM, Office/Manufacturing Cells, Setup Reduction, and Kanbans. Six Sigma excels at Problem Solving. It allows the empowered workforce to get to the "root cause" of identified business waste so that it can be eliminated. Demystifying Six Sigma explains Six Sigma in terms that the entire workforce can understand and use. It gives a simple and understandable explanation of how to impolement Six Sigma that will allow for the seemless blending of both Lean and Six Sigam.

Blending Lean and Six Sigma Workbooks

Larson, Alan

The goal of implementing Lean/World Class Enterprise is to improve and grow American businesses by making them globally competitive. With the news filled with debates about outsourcing, and moving businesses overseas, being globally competitive while maintaining their facilities in the US sounds like just what American business needs. So how successful are American companies at implementing these techniques? A recent report from Industry Week magazine sadly summarizes the current state of implementations. 
Industry Week reported that 72% of the 884 U.S. companies responding to their survey were in various stages of implementing an improvement strategy such as Lean or World Class manufacturing, Agile manufacturing, Six Sigma, TPS, Theory of Constraints, or others. Of these companies, 75% reported that they had made "no" or just "some" progress toward their World Class manufacturing goals. Only 2% of the companies reported achieving World Class manufacturing status. 
Why aren’t more companies showing significant progress in their goal to become World Class? This book has answers. 
Written for both experienced Lean/World Class implementers and companies just beginning the World Class Enterprise (WCE) journey, this book lists the ten reasons implementations fail (in order of severity) and what companies can do to prevent or recover from their occurrence.

How to Prevent Lean Implementation Failures: 10 Reasons Why Failures Occur

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Implementing World Class Manufacturing: A Bridge To Your Manufacturing Survival - Shop Floor Manual

Implementing World Class Manufacturing: A Bridge to Your Manufacturing Survival

Blending Lean and Six Sigma Workbooks

How to Prevent Lean Implementation Failures: 10 Reasons Why Failures Occur