Continuous Improvement Engineer
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Continuous Improvement-Sustaining the Effort [VHS] $280.00 This videotape highlights the methods used by manufacturing companies to prevent their continuous improvement efforts from fading away. An interview with Professor Clinton Longenecker provides the reason most improvement programs fail and what you can do to keep your workforce motivated to improve. Three companies that have re-energized their workforce are examined. (1) AMP Incorporated used a “tr… |
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Continuous Improvement-Sustaining the Effort $280.00 This program highlights the methods used by manufacturing companies to prevent their continuous improvement efforts from fading away. An interview with Professor Clinton Longenecker provides the reason most improvement programs fail and what you can do to keep your workforce motivated to improve. Three companies that have re-energized their workforce are examined. (1) AMP Incorporated used a “trea… |
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Lean: Lessons from the Road $17.99 Hitchhikers do not travel a fixed path. They intentionally wander so they can learn and grow along the way. Embarking on the lean journey is similar, there are many roads on which to wander and no single one is right for all. “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Lean: Lessons from the Road” reveals the most critical lessons learned over the authors’ combined 30-plus years of exploring the lean highways. On… |
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The Rough Guide to USA 9 (Rough Guide Travel Guides) $14.48 The Rough Guide to the USA is your definitive state-by-state guidebook to this vast and fascinating country. Fully updated and revised, this guide highlights the things-not-to-miss in the USA; whether you wish to watch a basketball in Chicago, explore Yellowstones National Park, view the towering Washington Monument or embark on a road trip through the USA! There are comprehensive insider … |
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Six Sigma and Other Continuous Improvement Tools for the Small Shop $58.00 This book, written by the author of the award-winning best-seller “Lean Manufacturing for the Small Shop,” describes six sigma, what it is, and how it is used in smaller companies. While it concentrates on six sigma in the small shop environment, it shows the relationship between continuous improvement, lean, and quality. This book focuses on implementation for operators and team leaders, as well … |
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Kaizen and Kaizen Event Implementation $24.58 The Practical, How-to Guide to Succeeding with Kaizen Programs and Events Today manufacturers need kaizen’s continuous productivity improvement and waste reduction techniques more than ever. Kaizen and Kaizen Event Implementation provides specific, detailed solutions that have proven successful in real manufacturing environments.Ortiz, author of the best-selling Lessons from a Lean Consultant, covers every element of a successful kaizen program and offers techniques for implementing several key kaizen events. Drawing on his unsurpassed, in-the-trenches experience, he shares powerful insights into changing cultures, gaining management buy-in, training, reporting, follow-up, and much more. Whether you’re a plant manager, director, engineer, or quality specialist, this book will help you make kaizen work.Avoid common implementation mistakesFind the right champion and establish an effective steering committeeCreate timelines, select teams and leaders, and define objectivesUse kaizen events to implement 5S, standard work, Kanban, and new line designsIncludes a chapter-length case study from a real manufacturing firm |
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Kaizen and Kaizen Event Implementation $27.99 The Practical, How-to Guide to Succeeding with Kaizen Programs and Events Today manufacturers need kaizen’s continuous productivity improvement and waste reduction techniques more than ever. Kaizen and Kaizen Event Implementation provides specific, detailed solutions that have proven successful in real manufacturing environments.Ortiz, author of the best-selling Lessons from a Lean Consultant, covers every element of a successful kaizen program and offers techniques for implementing several key kaizen events. Drawing on his unsurpassed, in-the-trenches experience, he shares powerful insights into changing cultures, gaining management buy-in, training, reporting, follow-up, and much more. Whether you’re a plant manager, director, engineer, or quality specialist, this book will help you make kaizen work.Avoid common implementation mistakesFind the right champion and establish an effective steering committeeCreate timelines, select teams and leaders, and define objectivesUse kaizen events to implement 5S, standard work, Kanban, and new line designsIncludes a chapter-length case study from a real manufacturing firm |
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The National Patient Safety Goals Calculator, 2010: Tools to Assess Compliance $125.95 HCPro’s updated automated data-collection tool, The National Patient Safety Goals Calculator, 2010, makes it easy to focus attention on goal compliance throughout your entire organization. Standardize data collection, summarize results, and demonstrate goal compliance on survey day. The National Patient Safety Goals Calculator, 2010: Tools to Assess Compliance is a series of interactive tools that bring department leaders and staff into the compliance assessment process. These Excel-based tools – delivered on CD-ROM with a step-by-step user’s manual – provide the most organized way to collect data, track results, and analyze whether – and to what degree – you’re complying with the goals. This package allows you to quickly and easily: • Question staff on each of The Joint Commission’s updates to the 2010 National Patient Safety Goals • Conduct assessments to measure compliance with each goal • Target the goals that need improvement • Measure and document your compliance levels over time • Produce graphs and charts to visually demonstrate your compliance Most importantly, The National Patient Safety Goals Calculator, 2010, puts all goal documentation into one easy-to-access location. When surveyors ask for proof of compliance, you’ll be able to produce evidence in a snap. About the companion User’s Manual Designed to help you get the most out of The National Patient Safety Goals Calculator, 2010, the companion User’s Manual: • Explains the purpose of the tool • Describes how to use the tool for continuous goal compliance • Provides screen grabs of eachmain element: the paper tool, calculator, and charts • Shows you how to customize the tool • Illustrates how to ensure accurate, consistent results Meet the author Jennifer Paugh, MBA, is an industrial engineer at a 300-bed regional healthcare |
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Total Quality Handbook $15.97 An ideal hands-on, authoritative, how-to guide for the manager, supervisor, engineer, or other individual who is, or wants to be, involved with total quality management for continual improvement of their organizations, products and services in the private or public sector. It covers the full scope and range of the subject—from its origin and history through practical day-to-day application of its philosophy and tools. Features easily followed step-by-step plans for even the most complex methodologies.Total Quality and Quality Management. Strategic Planning. Quality Culture. Customer Satisfaction. Empowerment. Leadership and Change. Team Building. Training. Quality Tools. Problem Solving and Decision Making. Statistical Process Control (SPC). Continuous Improvement. Benchmarking. Just-in-Time (JIT).For Presidents and CEOs; General Managers; Vice President/Director/Managers of Operations, Engineering, Manufacturing (or Production); Quality Assurance; Marketing and Business Development; Information Technology or Management Information Systems; Managers; Supervisors; Engineers. |
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Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results $29.95 Lead, Manage, and Develop Your People—the Toyota Way!”Toyota Kata gets to the essence of how Toyota manages continuous improvement and human ingenuity, through its improvement kata and coaching kata. Mike Rother explains why typical companies fail to understand the core of lean and make limited progress—and what it takes to make it a real part of your culture.”—Jeffrey K. Liker, bestselling author of The Toyota Way“By uncovering exactly what makes Toyota the standard bearer in a way that is accessible to every management level, in every industry, Rother has given the business world a true gem—Toyota Kata is a must read!”Keith Allman, President, Delta Faucet Company“Mike Rother’s Toyota Kata is a rare and exciting event—a book that casts entirely new light on a much-heralded set of management practices, giving those practices new significance and power.”from the Foreword by H. Thomas Johnson, author of Profit Beyond Measure“In Toyota Kata, Rother has put his finger on the heart of the coaching process at Toyota. He has distilled the PDCA process to its simplest and most essential core. Much of Toyota’s success is rooted in these subtle yet powerful behaviors Mike so clearly describes. Kata provides a level of clear insight into the key principles underlying Toyota culture in a way that can be easily understood and applied. Essential reading for any company committed to lasting culture change.”Bill Costantino, W3 Group, Former Group Leader TMMK(Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky, Inc.)Mike Rother is an engineer, a teacher,and a guest researcher at the TechnicalUniversity Dortmund. Rother’s work hasbought him to numerous companies andhundreds of factories around the world,where he collaborates with people to testideas and shares lessons learned. He splitshis time between Ann Arbor, and Cologne, Germany. |
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Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results $29.95 Lead, Manage, and Develop Your People—the Toyota Way!”Toyota Kata gets to the essence of how Toyota manages continuous improvement and human ingenuity, through its improvement kata and coaching kata. Mike Rother explains why typical companies fail to understand the core of lean and make limited progress—and what it takes to make it a real part of your culture.”—Jeffrey K. Liker, bestselling author of The Toyota Way“By uncovering exactly what makes Toyota the standard bearer in a way that is accessible to every management level, in every industry, Rother has given the business world a true gem—Toyota Kata is a must read!”Keith Allman, President, Delta Faucet Company“Mike Rother’s Toyota Kata is a rare and exciting event—a book that casts entirely new light on a much-heralded set of management practices, giving those practices new significance and power.”from the Foreword by H. Thomas Johnson, author of Profit Beyond Measure“In Toyota Kata, Rother has put his finger on the heart of the coaching process at Toyota. He has distilled the PDCA process to its simplest and most essential core. Much of Toyota’s success is rooted in these subtle yet powerful behaviors Mike so clearly describes. Kata provides a level of clear insight into the key principles underlying Toyota culture in a way that can be easily understood and applied. Essential reading for any company committed to lasting culture change.”Bill Costantino, W3 Group, Former Group Leader TMMK(Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky, Inc.)Mike Rother is an engineer, a teacher,and a guest researcher at the TechnicalUniversity Dortmund. Rother’s work hasbought him to numerous companies andhundreds of factories around the world,where he collaborates with people to testideas and shares lessons learned. He splitshis time between Ann Arbor, and Cologne, Germany. |
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Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results $29.95 Lead, Manage, and Develop Your People—the Toyota Way!”Toyota Kata gets to the essence of how Toyota manages continuous improvement and human ingenuity, through its improvement kata and coaching kata. Mike Rother explains why typical companies fail to understand the core of lean and make limited progress—and what it takes to make it a real part of your culture.”—Jeffrey K. Liker, bestselling author of The Toyota Way“By uncovering exactly what makes Toyota the standard bearer in a way that is accessible to every management level, in every industry, Rother has given the business world a true gem—Toyota Kata is a must read!”Keith Allman, President, Delta Faucet Company“Mike Rother’s Toyota Kata is a rare and exciting event—a book that casts entirely new light on a much-heralded set of management practices, giving those practices new significance and power.”from the Foreword by H. Thomas Johnson, author of Profit Beyond Measure“In Toyota Kata, Rother has put his finger on the heart of the coaching process at Toyota. He has distilled the PDCA process to its simplest and most essential core. Much of Toyota’s success is rooted in these subtle yet powerful behaviors Mike so clearly describes. Kata provides a level of clear insight into the key principles underlying Toyota culture in a way that can be easily understood and applied. Essential reading for any company committed to lasting culture change.”Bill Costantino, W3 Group, Former Group Leader TMMK(Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky, Inc.)Mike Rother is an engineer, a teacher,and a guest researcher at the TechnicalUniversity Dortmund. Rother’s work hasbought him to numerous companies andhundreds of factories around the world,where he collaborates with people to testideas and shares lessons learned. He splitshis time between Ann Arbor, and Cologne, Germany. |
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Well Testing Project Management: Onshore and Offshore Operations $155 Well test planning is one of the most important phrases in the life cycle of a well, if done improperly it could cost millions. Now there is a reference to ensure you get it right the first time. Written by a Consultant Completions & Well Test Engineer with decades of experience, Well Test Planning and Operations provides a road map to guide the reader through the maze of governmental regulations, industry codes, local standards and practices. This book describes how to plan a fit-for-purpose and fault free well test, and to produce the documents required for regulatory compliance. Given the level of activity in the oil and gas industry and the shortage of experienced personnel, this book will appeal to many specialists sitting in drilling, completion or exploration departments around the world who find themselves in the business of planning a well test, and yet who may lack expertise in that specialty. Nardone provides a roadmap to guide the planner through this complex subject, showing how to write the necessary documentation and to coordinate the many different tasks and activities, which constitute well test planning. Taking the reader from the basis for design through the well Test program to well test reports and finally to the all-important learning to ensure continuous improvement.Identification and prioritization of well test objectives Confirmation of well test requirements Preparation of detailed well test programs Selection and qualification of test equipment Onsite (onshore and offshore) engineering support and test supervision Detailed well test interpretation Definition of Extended Well Test (EWT) requirements |
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Well Testing Project Management: Onshore and Offshore Operations $155 Well test planning is one of the most important phrases in the life cycle of a well, if done improperly it could cost millions. Now there is a reference to ensure you get it right the first time. Written by a Consultant Completions & Well Test Engineer with decades of experience, Well Test Planning and Operations provides a road map to guide the reader through the maze of governmental regulations, industry codes, local standards and practices. This book describes how to plan a fit-for-purpose and fault free well test, and to produce the documents required for regulatory compliance. Given the level of activity in the oil and gas industry and the shortage of experienced personnel, this book will appeal to many specialists sitting in drilling, completion or exploration departments around the world who find themselves in the business of planning a well test, and yet who may lack expertise in that specialty. Nardone provides a roadmap to guide the planner through this complex subject, showing how to write the necessary documentation and to coordinate the many different tasks and activities, which constitute well test planning. Taking the reader from the basis for design through the well Test program to well test reports and finally to the all-important learning to ensure continuous improvement.Identification and prioritization of well test objectives Confirmation of well test requirements Preparation of detailed well test programs Selection and qualification of test equipment Onsite (onshore and offshore) engineering support and test supervision Detailed well test interpretation Definition of Extended Well Test (EWT) requirements |