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LeanSpeak The Productivity Business Improvement Dictionary

LeanSpeak The Productivity Business Improvement Dictionary

This dictionary specific to lean business processes contains over 500 terms used in lean management and manufacturing. Easy to access accurate and comprehensive LeanSpeak will become the desktop tool of choice for lean manufacturing practitioners from the shop floor to the corner office. Here are some examples of entries in LeanSpeak:gemba: Japanese word of which the literal translation is the real place. In the manufacturing field gemba means the shop floor where the actual product is being made as contrasted to the office where support services are provided. lean: shorthand to refer to a lean manufacturing system of which the Toyota Production System is the foremost example that has relatively little non-value-adding waste and maximum flow. The term has been used pejoratively to refer to anti-labor practices intending to reduce the number of workers within a company and to strong-arm tactics with suppliers. takt time: the rate at which product must be turned out to satisfy market demand. It is determined by dividing the available production time by the rate of customer demand. For example if customers demand 240 widgets per day and the factory operates 480 minutes per day takt time is two minutes. If customers want two new products designed per month takt time is two weeks. It is a calculated number not a reflection of your capability. It sets the pace of production to match the rate of customer demand. Also available as an ebook in Microsoft Reader Adobe Acrobat Reader or Palm Reader formats. | LeanSpeak The Productivity Business Improvement Dictionary

GBP 170.00
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Reshore Production Now How to Rebuild Manufacturing and Restore High Wages High Profits and National Prosperity in the USA

Reshore Production Now How to Rebuild Manufacturing and Restore High Wages High Profits and National Prosperity in the USA

This book addresses the vital importance of reshoring US manufacturing capability to ensure economic and military security and then discusses the proven methods that the United States used to gain manufacturing supremacy in the first place. The vital takeaway is: If the job can be made sufficiently productive the per-unit labor cost ceases to be relevant which means a business can pay high wages realize high profits and deliver low prices simultaneously. The contest is then not between high wages and cheap labor but between efficiency and inefficiency and when automation is involved machine against machine. Readers will be able to put these principles to work very quickly to achieve tangible results. The relatively low Federal minimum wage has meanwhile become a major issue but inflation skyrocketed in the second quarter of 2022 when higher wages and higher demand for goods and services were not matched with higher productivity. The book addresses the relationship between the money supply and the velocity of money to prices wages and productivity. A manufacturing resurgence in the United States will not only increase our standard of living enormously but generate taxable economic activity that will help pay down rather than increase the Federal debt. Higher productivity also delivers a greater supply of goods to accompany higher wages and thus works against inflation. This can prevent looming recessions and disruptions. | Reshore Production Now How to Rebuild Manufacturing and Restore High Wages High Profits and National Prosperity in the USA

GBP 34.99
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American Healthcare Why It Costs So Much Yet Remains a Beacon of Growth and Development

American Healthcare Why It Costs So Much Yet Remains a Beacon of Growth and Development

Selected by the Association of University Programs in Health Administrationfor the Bugbee-Falk Book Award Is the health sector a curse or a blessing? The American health sector now accounts for a fifth of the economy. American healthcare spending per capita far exceeds that of other developed countries. Yet our health as measured by life expectancy and infant mortality is poor by comparison with the developed world. Other measures of quality including hospital-acquired infection are too common. Healthcare costs financially cripple households despite advances associated with the Affordable Care Act. There is widespread dissatisfaction with the American healthcare system and support for more change. It is also the case that the health sector has been a leader in the evolution of the American economy. Economic development is driven by innovative technology. We tend to applaud new technology and the improvement it brings to our lives. Important recent technologies often grow rapidly and faster than the wider economy. This leads to larger shares of the economy. Yet there is considerable apprehension about costs and economic impact of health spending. This book details important health sector institutions and uniquely explores linkages between healthcare and broader economic growth. The book addresses asymmetric information between providers and consumers as well as between insurers and beneficiaries. There is a focus on monopoly power in labor markets which contributes to inefficiencies in the system. The author also discusses cost-effectiveness and allocative efficiency as well as emphasizing productivity and its relationship to the wider economy. | American Healthcare Why It Costs So Much Yet Remains a Beacon of Growth and Development

GBP 38.99
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Achieving Lean Changeover Putting SMED to Work

Achieving Lean Changeover Putting SMED to Work

Defined as the total process of converting a line or process from one product to another changeover will not only help your organization improve quality and flexibility but it will save thousands and sometimes even tens of thousands of dollars per hour. Achieving Lean Changeover: Putting SMED to Work is about the practical implementation of the single minute exchange of die (SMED) philosophy developed by Shigeo Shingo at Toyota. Although the book is principally about changeover of manufacturing packaging and assembly processes the general concepts and examples are also applicable in lighter industries that require turnover of processes including airlines hospitals operating rooms and food service. Filled with practical examples the book shares proven methods that can help you convert changeover downtime to productive uptime. It explains why reducing changeover time is important financially and provides a structured methodology to help you identify and implement improvement opportunities. The author addresses both the machinery issues with changeover/ SMED and the associated operational issues such as costs waiting times material movement documentation and product/component design. He also devotes a chapter to discussing in detail how to calculate the cost of changeover downtime an area that remains a mystery to many. Taking a holistic approach to changeover the text includes a chapter devoted to organizing changeover improvements keeping them on track and developing and implementing a formal changeover reduction program. Presenting time-tested methods and practical examples from a variety of industries it offers you the opportunity to reduce changeover time and cost and provide your organization with the flexibility needed to better satisfy your customers in three important dimensions: product variety responsiveness and price. | Achieving Lean Changeover Putting SMED to Work

GBP 170.00
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Ways of Greening Using Plants and Gardens for Healthy Work and Living Surroundings

Ways of Greening Using Plants and Gardens for Healthy Work and Living Surroundings

This book focuses on rethinking working and living spaces and understanding how greening can make them healthier and their occupants happier. It teaches how to see unique ideas for spaces and some of the materials needed to create the designs. Inspired by a study that states that 8% of a space needs to have plants in order to positively affect the air quality of the space this book explores what that minimum would look like in spaces and how it can be done to existing spaces as well as to new site designs greening both interiors and exteriors. Using the mathematical amount of 10% per square foot the illustrations start at that quantity of greening and show how it can look. The sites selected are both public and private sites as well as interior and exterior. As there are more modalities needs and locations where people now work making sure that multiple types of spaces are designed for people’s success is more relevant than ever. This includes designs for more traditional offices open-air offices commercial spaces homes studios and more. Ways of Greening: using Plans and Gardens for Healthy Work and Living Surroundings gives readers a way to not only understand greening but to understand how to see greening applied to their place. The two basic ways to see the spaces selected are existing spaces to which greening design is applied afterward and upcoming spaces in which greening design can be built directly into the space. The first type of retrofitting greening into existing spaces can also be combined with the second type of space (new designs). There are examples of both types throughout the book. Essentially this book addresses ways in which business owners residents developers architects agencies and others can integrate greening to improve the air quality and the quality of life with a green solution. | Ways of Greening Using Plants and Gardens for Healthy Work and Living Surroundings

GBP 42.99
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Throughput Economics Making Good Management Decisions

Throughput Economics Making Good Management Decisions

Schragenheim Camp and Surace three leaders of TOC community are tackling one of value destroyers of corporations—the misuse and abuse of traditional cost accounting. This book develops a practical methodology for better decision making by looking at the impact of certain types of decisions on a company’s bottom line. This well-defined methodology allows mid-managers higher level managers and financial staff to create real value by concentrating on what truly matters. Boaz Ronen Professor Emeritus Coller School of Management Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv IsraelThroughput Economics is a must read for entrepreneurs and managers who want to make their organizations more and more antifragile. Andrea Zattoni CEO of Antifragility ItalyManagement accounting is a dry topic. Throughput Economics is not—managers can learn a lot they can apply to their company from it. Rudolf Burkhart Business Development Director Vistem Gmbh GermanyThroughput Economics challenges the current thinking of how to evaluate cost risks and rewards of any deal or any other new market opportunity being considered especially the practice of calculating cost-per-unit. Instead this book offers a process that directly answers the critical question: If we accept the proposed decision will the performance of the organization improve?The process involves the intuition of the key people in the organization together with the relevant data to come up with the best available information from which to form a reasonable range of net profit when the considered decision is added on top of all the other activities undertaken by the organization. The process is explained and demonstrated using a variety of cases where the organization faces a new non-trivial idea along with a detailed explanation of how it should work including software support that provides very quick response to many what-if suggestions. This book offers a new and well-defined process applicable to every organization that considers both financial impacts and capacity limitations and also includes the impact of uncertainty by providing the range of reasonable results rather than one number which is always proven wrong in the end. Overall the book provides a holistic method for simplified decision making in seemingly complex or shifting environments using a constraints mindset to facilitate companies’ realization for the first time their true potential. | Throughput Economics Making Good Management Decisions

GBP 31.99
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