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Shingo, Shigeo

 
9780915299522: The Shingo Production Management System: Improving Process Functions

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Here, in Dr. Shingo's final book, he gives us a comprehensive system for the improvement of production functions. This book's broad scope encompasses such diverse topics as Value Engineering, CAD/CAM techniques, and information management. If you've never read Shingo, it will give you an overview of his brilliant concepts. If you are familiar with his genius, you'll find it a much-needed network of his ideas.

It includes:

  • Historical revolutions in production.
  • A production management revolution in the United States.
  • A scientific thinking mechanism for improvement.
  • Creating an improvement plan.
  • Basic flaws in conventional production management improvement.
  • Process functions and operational functions.
  • The effect of the division of labor on the development of work.

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Contenuti

Illustrations
Publisher's Message
Preface

PART I: A History of Production Management
1. Introduction
2. Historical Revolutions in Production
3. A Production Management Revolution in the United States

PART II: Basic Improvement Thinking
4. The Concept of Improvement
5. A Scientific Thinking Mechanism for Improvement
6. Creating an Improvement Plan
7. Basic Flaws in Conventional Production Management Improvement
8. Improvement Misunderstood
9. Take Another Look at Machine Functions

PART III: Improving Production Management
10. The Object of Improvement

PART IV: The First Function of Production Management: Process Improvement
11. Process Functions
12. The Improvement of Process Control Systems

PART V: The Second Function of Production Management: Operational Improvement
13. Process Functions
14. The Effect of the Division of Labor on the Development of Work
15. Types of Operations

PART VI: Basic Steps to Improving Productivity
16. How to Raise Productivity Worldwide

PART VII: Improving Productivity in the Future
17. Final Thoughts

Afterword
Appendix: A Developmental Genealogy of Management Thought On the Criteria for the Shingo Prize
Shingo Bibliography
About the Author
Index

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