Compiling practical recommendations gleaned from more than 20 years of professional experience, Target Costing: Market Driven Product Design provides numerous examples from field authorities that illustrate valuable concepts and approaches employed in the application of target costing to large-scale manufacturing operations. The authors discuss set

A BUSINESSWEEK BESTSELLERBestselling Lean Six Sigma author Michael George provides the first pocket guide for deployers of Lean Six SigmaThe Lean Six Sigma Pocket Toolbook blends Lean and Six Sigma tools and concepts, providing expert advice on how to determine which tool within a "family" is best for different purposes. Packed with detailed examples and step-bystep instructions, it's the ideal handy reference guide to help Green a...

The fast and easy way to understand and implement Six SigmaThe world's largest and most profitable companies—including the likes of GE, Bank of America, Honeywell, DuPont, Samsung, Starwood Hotels, Bechtel, and Motorola—have used Six Sigma to achieve breathtaking improvements in business performance, in everything from products to processes to complex systems and even in work environments. Over the past decade, over $100 billion in bottom-line performance has been ...

Right Your Software and Transform Your CareerRighting Software presents the proven, structured, and highly engineered approach to software design that renowned architect Juval Löwy has practiced and taught around the world. Although companies of every kind have successfully implemented his original design ideas across hundreds of systems, these insights have never before appeared in print.Based on first principles in software engin...

Meet all your customers’ needs—and your company’s goals—with the tools and techniques of Lean Six Sigma2 top-quality guides in 1 powerful eBook package!When you combine Lean Production and Six Sigma, you can’t fail to deliver positive results on a continual basis. This powerful mix—called Lean Six Sigma—is what some of the world’s most successful organizations use to launch themselves ahead of the competition—and stay there.Now, from one ...

From the award-winning developers of Factory Physics—a powerful leadership guide for breakthrough performanceA comprehensive guide that cuts through the hodgepodge of copycat initiatives, overblown buzzwords, confusing mathematics, and misguided software, Factory Physics for Managers is a breath of fresh air for operations managers and executives.Written by the leaders and experts behind the bestselling Factory Physics, it’s a brilliant crash course in the practi...

In the past few years, we’ve seen many data products based on predictive modeling. These products range from weather forecasting to recommendation engines like Amazon's. Prediction technology can be interesting and mathematically elegant, but we need to take the next step: going from recommendations to products that can produce optimal strategies for meeting concrete business objectives.We already know how to build these products: they've been in use for the past decade or so, but ...

In the 1950s, a planning method was conceived called “Material Requirements Planning (or MRP).” MRP changed the world of manufacturing forever. But times have changed—customer tolerance times are much shorter, product variety and complexity has increased, and supply chains have spread around the world. MRP is dramatically failing in this “New Normal.” Demand Driven Material Requirements Planning (DDMRP) is a practical, proven, and emerging method for supply chain planning and execution tha...

The purposes of this chapter are to provide guidance in using the TOC pull distribution method in order to manage stocks across the supply chain; understanding the current methods used in order to manage stock; understanding the inherent problems with using forecasting in order to manage stock; understanding the steps needed in order to start managing stock levels at the different stocking points according to TOC principles; knowing how to use Buffer Management (BM) to allow better execution ...

The latest and most important information for best practices in the inventory functionInventory Best Practices, Second Edition offers the latest and most important information on advanced techniques and strategies to improve on the accuracy of all ongoing inventories, configure a warehouse for optimum counting efficiencies, and more.Explains the difference between different types of distressed merchandise for disposal purposesShows ...

A properly implemented and managed RCM program can save millions in unscheduled maintenance and breakdowns. However, many have found the process daunting. Written by an expert with over 30 years of experience, this book introduces innovative approaches to simplify the RCM process such as: single vs. multiple failure analysis, hidden failures analysis, potentially critical components analysis, run-to-failure and the difference between redundant, standby, and backup functions. Included are r...

This chapter comes from Lean Six Sigma for Supply Chain Management , written by a master black belt/educator. Neatly condensed into a 10 step process, this book teaches you how to apply the tenets of lean operations (from the Toyota Production System) and Six Sigma management principles to supply chain management. Author Jim Martin includes more than 200 tables and figures describing roadmaps, critical success characteristics as well as specific information necessary to fully integrate Lean S...