<p>Best book describing the basic quality tools.</p>

Guide to Quality Control

Business & Money

Kaoru Ishikawa

Management & Leadership

Asian Productivity Organization

The 5S's: Five Keys to a Total Quality Environment

The first step in any quality movement should be a 5S movement - that is, a determination to organize the workplace, keep it neat and clean, maintain standardized conditions, and maintain the discipline needed to do a good job.  By using this book to initiate a 5S movement, your company will see results in: higher productivity and better quality; improved accident prevention; employees taking pride in their work; healthier corporate climate.  What are the 5S's? Seiri = Organization Seiton = Neatness Seiso = Cleaning Seiketsu = Standardization Shitsuke = Discipline

Osada, Takashi

QFD: Customer-Driven Approach to Quality Planning and Deployment

The QC storyline: A guide to solving problems and communicating the results

Sugiura, Tadashi

As one of Japan's foremost authorities on Industrial Engineering, Takeshi Kawase has developed a unique and elegantly simple solution to the 'problem of problem solving.' In Human-Centered Problem-Solving: The Management of Improvements he shares the experience and insights he has gained during more than 30 years as a consultant. Although well versed in the theories and techniques of IE, Takeshi Kawase focuses on the philosophy of problem solving. The keystones of his philosophy lie in the ideas that every problem has an owner and that a problem's owner is the person best equipped to solve the problem, as long as the techniques are straightforward and the necessary support is provided. The goal therefore is to come up with a solution that matches the owner's needs and that will enhance rather than diminish job satisfaction and pride. To this end, Human-Centered Problem-Solving advocates the implementation of the line-centered model of problem solving as the most effective way to achieve this goal. Kawase defines IE as dealing with efficiency of systems that include humans. Believing that IE lies between science and the humanities, he draws from both approaches.

Human-Centered Problem Solving: The Management of Improvements

Takeshi Kawase

Human-Centered Problem-Solving: The Management of Improvements

Asian food processing industries

Unknown, Author

Truck transport (wayside amenities): Symposium report and Japanese experience

Foreign direct investment in Asia: APO survey and symposium reports

Edward K.Y. Chen

Agricultural extension systems in Asia and the Pacific: Report of an APO Study Meeting, 15th-25th June, 1993, Tokyo, Japan

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