Compared to its widespread implementation in nearly all areas of production, Lean improvement lags behind in the process industries. Drawing on 40 years of experience at one of the world’s largest chemical and materials manufacturers, Peter King provides the first Lean resource written explicitly for the process industries. Focusing on where the needs of the process industry differ from those of parts assembly manufacturing, he discusses the eight wastes described in Lean literature, looking at how they manifest themselves in process operations. He explains how to adapt value stream mapping for process operations and how to identify and eliminate the root causes of bottlenecks.
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Industrial Chemistry
Industrial Engineering & Manufacturing
Lean Manufacturing
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At The Danaher Corporation, George Koenigsaecker led the lean transformations of both the automotive and tool groups. He also led The Hon Company’s successful lean conversion, which doubled productivity and tripled revenues, leading Industry Week to recognize HON on their list of the "World’s 100 Best Managed Firms." Written to help executives in determining right from wrong during a lean initiative, this lively work shows that lean is more about an approach than it is about tools. It presents the successful strategies and case histories of several key American leaders who have been instrumental in bringing lean to the forefront of various industries.
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Lean Manufacturing
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Written by business leaders for business leaders, this book explores successful supply chain improvement requirements and methodologies. It covers the use of these techniques in a story about Twin City Manufacturing, a fictitious company based on the authors’ actual experiences. Whether you are intimately familiar with the supply chain discipline or have limited experience, the authors present a valuable roadmap that can be applied to supply chain improvement. Drawing on their combined 70 years of experience, the authors will arm you with the knowledge and methods needed to identify and implement change, and give you the confidence needed to become an effective change agent.
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Lean Manufacturing
Supply Chain Management
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Written by one of the leading authorities in the industry, this book provides a basic primer on the American health care system. Using simple-to-understand language supplemented by insightful anecdotes and examples, the author cuts through the thicket of health care reform rhetoric to offer a step-by-step blueprint for achieving real improvements in health care delivery, as well as putting curbs on growing health care costs. He explains how health insurance works in the U.S. compared with the rest of the world and outlines the barriers to American reform. He also discusses why health care costs are going up so rapidly and sets realistic goals for care improvement. "George Halvorson offers a timely and compelling prescription to addressing the chronic ills of our health care system … ." —Tom Daschle, Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader "George Halvorson, CEO of the nation’s largest health care delivery system, says reducing costs while expanding coverage not only should be done, but can be done, and tells us how … ." —Dr. James Robinson, Professor of Health Economics, UC Berkeley
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Healthcare Management
Public Administration & Management
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Designed for the busy health care professional who needs to collect, analyze, and/or evaluate data, this readily accessible work explains the fundamental concepts, uses, and misuses of statistics. Without jargon or mathematical formulas, the author introduces the practice of quantitative analysis to provide an understanding of the principles of scientific inquiry, applied to clinical medicine, program evaluation, policy analysis, management, accounting, and research. The book discusses practical scientific methods to show why statistics cannot compensate for bad science or bad data. It will help readers to intelligently evaluate the many numbers that cross their desk in the normal course of business.
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Statistics for the Biological Sciences
Quality Assurance & Total Quality Management
Healthcare Management
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Healthcare Payment Systems: An Introduction provides a complete introduction to healthcare payment systems. Written by Duane Abbey, one of the nation’s leading experts and most sought out consultants on payment systems, this volume makes the monumental task of medical reimbursement approachable and manageable. Covering the fundamentals and terminology needed to understand this discipline, and the strategies needed to master it, Dr. Abbey will help you begin to develop the solid core of skills and knowledge needed to confidently approach payment systems as tools to use rather than hazards to avoid -- tools that will lead to improved revenue cycles and higher levels of profitability.
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Healthcare Management
Finance
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Designed for easy reference by people with busy schedules, this concise manual provides hospital board members and executives with practical guidance on how to become actively engaged in the transformation of their organization. It focuses on how the healthcare industry as a whole is transforming and stresses the importance of having board members who are able to provide leadership. The manual is ideal for orienting new board members and for providing experienced members with insight on key issues. It supplies questions to ask stakeholders that will facilitate engagement. Each chapter is organized around action steps designed to build organizational quality and facilitate change.
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Quality Assurance & Total Quality Management
Healthcare Management
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Volume 6: JIT Implementation Forms and Charts provides a comprehensive diagnostic tool for JIT operations and includes a wealth of checklists, memos, and essential forms for recognizing waste in operations and implementing the 5S’s. It includes engineering forms for line-balancing, skills training, visual controls, changeover improvement, mistake-proofing, and standard operations. This indispensable resource also supplies a set of forms and charts useful when introducing and promoting JIT or lean to your plant and includes the JIT management forms that Hirano uses to implement "JIT Awareness Revolutions." PDF versions of more than 40 forms can be downloaded from the books description page on the CRC Press website.
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Lean Manufacturing
Business & Management
Manufacturing Engineering
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Providing details on how to implement standardized operations in manufacturing, including essential information on how to establish, improve, and preserve standard operations, Volume 5: Standardized Operations — Jidoka and Maintenance/Safety covers the key topic of Jidoka , or human autonomation — essentially how to separate human activity from machine work without producing defects. It also addresses the essential aspects of maintenance in a JIT environment and how to prevent breakdowns. The book includes time-saving information on how to quickly recognize why injuries occur and create a strategy for zero injuries and zero accidents.
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Lean Manufacturing
Business & Management
Manufacturing Engineering
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Volume 4: Leveling — Changeover and Quality Assurance provides essential background on the core concept of level production in a JIT, or lean, manufacturing system and the implementation techniques. It also discusses changeover and the rules and procedures for changeover improvement and covers quality assurance in the context of level production, including how to recognize structures that create defects, plan for achieving zero defects, and make use of mistake-proofing devices.
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Lean Manufacturing
Business & Management
Manufacturing Engineering
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