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Fundamentals of Daily Shop Floor Management A Guide for Manufacturing Optimization and Excellence

Fundamentals of Daily Shop Floor Management A Guide for Manufacturing Optimization and Excellence

Survival and thriving in today’s business environment require companies to continuously strive for operational excellence at all levels of the organization. Simply working to maintain existing operations is not an adequate or sustainable business strategy especially when competing in a global market. To remain relevant companies must adopt a process control and continuous improvement mentality as an integral part of their daily work activities. These two operational disciplines form the foundation and stepping stones for manufacturing excellence. Processes must be stable capable and controlled as a prerequisite for sustainable improvement. Sustainable improvements must be strategic continuous and focused on process optimization. Modern-day manufacturing is rapidly changing in the face of technological geopolitical social and environmental developments. These challenges are altering the way we think and act to transform raw materials into finished goods. Meeting these challenges requires particular attention to how we develop and engage people and apply technology for long-term sustainability and competitive advantage. This book takes you on a journey to explore the fundamental elements management practices improvement methods and future direction of shop floor management. Part 1 of this five-part book considers workplace culture organizational structure operational discipline and employee accountability as the foundation for a robust manufacturing system. Part 2 studies the impact of process standardization data analytics information sharing communication and people on daily shop floor management. Once the management system has been adequately described Part 3 concentrates on its effective execution monitoring and control with a deep look into the people methods machines materials and environment that make it possible. Like every good manufacturing text efficiency and productivity are key topics. That’s why Part 4 explores various methods tools and techniques associated with product and process development productivity improvement agile methods shop floor optimization and manufacturing excellence. The final section Part 5 shifts focus to emerging technologies engaging the reader to contemplate technology’s impact on the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry. | Fundamentals of Daily Shop Floor Management A Guide for Manufacturing Optimization and Excellence

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The Story of Industrial Engineering The Rise from Shop-Floor Management to Modern Digital Engineering

The Story of Industrial Engineering The Rise from Shop-Floor Management to Modern Digital Engineering

Recipient of the 2020 IISE Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers Joint Publishers Book-of-the-Year Award Industrial engineering is the profession dedicated to making collective systems function better with less waste better quality and fewer resources to serve the needs of society more efficiently and more effectively. This book uses a story-telling approach to advocate and elaborate the fundamental principles of industrial engineering in a simple interesting and engaging format. It will stimulate interest in industrial engineering by exploring how the tools and techniques of the discipline can be relevant to a broad spectrum of applications in business industry engineering education government and the military. FeaturesCovers the origin of industrial engineering Discusses the early pioneers and profiles the evolution of the profession Presents offshoot branches of industrial engineering Illustrates specific areas of performance measurement and human factors Links industrial engineering to the emergence of digital engineering Uses the author’s personal experience to illustrate his advocacy and interest in the profession | The Story of Industrial Engineering The Rise from Shop-Floor Management to Modern Digital Engineering

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The Toyota Mindset The Ten Commandments of Taiichi Ohno

The Toyota Mindset The Ten Commandments of Taiichi Ohno

From the brilliant mind of a legend in the Lean Manufacturing world comes the reasoning behind the importance of using your intellect challenging your workers and why continuous improvement is not only a helpful tool but a necessity on the shop floor. Mr. Wakamatsu recounts captivating first hand experiences with the man who changed the way the world looks at manufacturing. | The Toyota Mindset The Ten Commandments of Taiichi Ohno

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Towards Industrial Democracy Europe Japan and the United States

Towards Industrial Democracy Europe Japan and the United States

This study first published in 1979 analysed the international trend towards industrial democracy in the industrial relations practices in Europe Japan and the United States. The development of industrial democracy was occurring through the establishment of employee and union participation on boards of directors and at the shop floor level in the extension of the role and power of works councils. In other countries the main development was through collective bargaining methods on labor-management relations and management decision-making. The authors examine various countries and explore any highlights lessons and ideas that might be transferable from one political and social context to another. | Towards Industrial Democracy Europe Japan and the United States

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Ballroom Dancing

Ballroom Dancing

Now in its eleventh edition this classic and comprehensive handbook has been revised to bring it up to date with changes on the dance floor and in the rules of dance competitions. The Quickstep Waltz Foxtrot and Tango are all illustrated and described in great detail as well as the versions of most dances approved for championships. Diagrams demonstrate every step from both the Leader’s and Follower’s perspectives and a collection of photographs new to this edition celebrate the diverse range of dancers involved with ballroom. This is the go-to book for dancers competition judges teachers and anyone who needs to be at the forefront of today’s ballroom technique from amateur practice to international championships. | Ballroom Dancing

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Studio Television Production and Directing Concepts Equipment and Procedures

Studio Television Production and Directing Concepts Equipment and Procedures

This updated third edition of Studio Television Production and Directing introduces readers to the basic fundamentals of studio and control room production. Accessible and focused readers of this updated third edition will learn about essential studio and control room terminology and the common technology package. This book is your back-to-the-basics guide to common technology—including principles of directing assistant directing technical directing playback audio ops basic studio lighting an introduction to set design camera ops floor directing story types (VO VO/SOT PKG) basic engineering and more. Whether an established professional or a student this book provides readers with the technical expertise to successfully coordinate live or recorded multicamera production. In this new edition author Andrew Hicks Utterback offers an expanded glossary and new material on visualization walls alternative camera mounts basic engineering and news narrative diagramming. | Studio Television Production and Directing Concepts Equipment and Procedures

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Casino Management in Integrated Resorts

Casino Management in Integrated Resorts

Casino Management in Integrated Resorts introduces students to the changing nature of casino businesses within the framework of an integrated resort or hospitality organisation. In the new integrated casino model casinos play an important role not only in revenue generation but in supporting the other amenities in the resort including bars restaurants hotels and theme parks. This book brings readers up to speed with the challenges of managing a casino within this rapidly expanding gaming–leisure–tourism industry. It covers a range of essential topics such as the basic psychology of casino gaming the role and history of casinos within an integrated resort staffing floor design table and slot game management control and security marketing and social impact. Written in an accessible style this book is suitable for readers with no prior knowledge of or experience in casino operations. It will be an essential introductory yet comprehensive resource for all those undertaking casino management courses.

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Trumping Democracy From Reagan to the Alt-Right

Trumping Democracy From Reagan to the Alt-Right

Since 2014 over 80 people have been killed in the United States of America by Right-wing terrorists. In 2016 Donald Trump was elected President of the United States and received substantial support from White nationalists. This book explains the increase in violent White nationalism and Trump’s ascendancy in the context of the backlash against the presidency of Barack Obama. It demonstrates how there is a dynamic relationship between the Republican Party various Right-wing populist movements and the Right. Far Right social movements political campaigns and the online presence of the so-called ‘alt-Right’ are all discussed. The book argues that unfair hierarchies of race gender and class are not aberrational tremors in America but the fracturing bedrock of a nation in which being White male Christian or straight no longer ensures a stable floor for power status or privilege. This is vital reading for students researchers and activists interested in American politics and the dangers of Right-wing movements and political parties. | Trumping Democracy From Reagan to the Alt-Right

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The Art of Plain Speaking How to Write and Speak in a Way that Will Impress the People that Matter

The Art of Plain Speaking How to Write and Speak in a Way that Will Impress the People that Matter

This is a guide for anyone who wants to connect better with people in the workplace by speaking clearly and with purpose. It is a result of five years at Charlie Corbett’s consultancy Bullfinch Media where he helped convince executives that speaking plainly thoughtfully and behaving with humanity is the best way to win business boost morale and advance careers. It provides carefully detailed wisdom on how to write well speak publicly and stand out in your job as well as how to craft compelling communications make the best of social media and handle the press. The Art of Plain Speaking aims to improve the experience faced by many in the modern workplace a world where senior management are entirely absent from the shop floor – replaced by indecipherable emails from HR – and where people speak in esoteric corporate riddles believing that sounding clever is more productive than speaking clearly. | The Art of Plain Speaking How to Write and Speak in a Way that Will Impress the People that Matter

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Agile Leadership for Turbulent Times Integrating Your Ego Eco and Intuitive Intelligence

Agile Leadership for Turbulent Times Integrating Your Ego Eco and Intuitive Intelligence

This thought-provoking and engaging book is for you whatever your seniority in the private or public sector – if you are curious about the role and purpose of leadership in a turbulent world. It will help you become a more agile leader through understanding and integrating your ego eco and intuitive intelligence. You will gain a deeper understanding of your unique leadership blend through a short diagnostic inventory bringing insight about your strengths and what may be tripping you up. The book offers tips ideas and practical suggestions on how to develop your ability to use the three intelligences in order to expand your leadership repertoire. It will help you enable the teams you lead to be more flexible responsive and autonomous. The authors have drawn on their vast experience from the boardroom to the shop floor the classroom and research around the world to write an easy-to-digest yet ground-breaking book that deals with the root causes of today’s twenty-first-century leadership challenges. Its contents are straightforward and widely applicable. | Agile Leadership for Turbulent Times Integrating Your Ego Eco and Intuitive Intelligence

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The British Empire Sunrise to Sunset

The British Empire Sunrise to Sunset

The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset is a broad survey of the history of the British Empire from its beginnings to its demise that offers a comprehensive analysis of what life was like under colonial rule weaving the everyday stories of people living through the experience of colonialism into the bigger picture of empire. The experience of the British Empire was not limited to what happened behind closed doors or on the floor of Parliament. It affected men women and children across the globe making a difference to what they ate and what kind of work they did what languages and lessons they learned in school and how they were able to live their lives. This new edition expands its coverage and discusses the relationship between Brexit and empire as well as the recent controversies connected to empire that have engulfed Britain: the Windrush scandal the fight over the Chagos Islands and the Mau Mau lawsuits bringing it up to date and engaging with key debates that govern the study of empire. Painting a picture of life for all those affected by empire and supported by maps and illustrations this is the perfect text for all students of imperial history. | The British Empire Sunrise to Sunset

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Office Lean Understanding and Implementing Flow in a Professional and Administrative Environment

Office Lean Understanding and Implementing Flow in a Professional and Administrative Environment

Struggling to apply Lean effectively in your office environment? Office Lean is a book for anyone who wants to apply Lean better in contexts where the work is both intangible and complex. it explains in simple terms what Lean is - and what Lean isn’t - enabling office professionals to understand how it can be successfully applied to their complex office-based work environments. Contrary to popular opinion Lean is not only for mass manufacturing or healthcare. It applies just as much to the digital world of knowledge work industries such as banking and financial services software development and government. But the fundamental concepts straight from the factory floor need a fair amount of translation to be effectively applied in cube farms. Overturning the common perception that Lean is about imposing rigid rules or simply eliminating waste in the name of efficiency Eakin presents Lean as a dynamic flexible people-centric philosophy that delivers outstanding business results by improving employee engagement and customer experience. Office Lean helps Lean practitioners (leaders/managers and coaches/consultants) working in professional office environments access the amazing transformative results Lean can bring to their specific domains. It combines clear explanations of the core concepts of the Lean philosophy with relevant practical examples from the fields of accounting finance insurance IT and government. | Office Lean Understanding and Implementing Flow in a Professional and Administrative Environment

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Structural Wood Design ASD/LRFD

Structural Wood Design ASD/LRFD

This text provides a concise and practical guide to timber design using both the Allowable Stress Design and the Load and Resistance Factor Design methods. It suits students in civil structural and construction engineering programs as well as engineering technology and architecture programs and also serves as a valuable resource for the practicing engineer. The examples based on real-world design problems reflect a holistic view of the design process that better equip the reader for timber design in practice. This new editionnow includes the LRFD method with some design examples using LRFD for joists girders and axially load members. is based on the 2015 NDS and 2015 IBC model code. includes a more in-depth discussion of framing and framing systems commonly used in practice such as metal plate connected trusses rafter and collar tie framing and pre-engineered framing. includes sample drawings drawing notes and specifications that might typically be used in practice. includes updated floor joist span charts that are more practical and are easy to use. includes a chapter on practical considerations covering topics like flitch beams wood poles used for footings reinforcement of existing structures and historical data on wood properties. includes a section on long span and high rise wood structuresincludes an enhanced student design project | Structural Wood Design ASD/LRFD

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Pop Music Production Manufactured Pop and BoyBands of the 1990s

Pop Music Production Manufactured Pop and BoyBands of the 1990s

Pop Music Production delves into academic depths around the culture the business the songwriting and most importantly the pop music production process. Phil Harding balances autobiographical discussion of events and relationships with academic analysis to offer poignant points on the value of pure popular music particularly in relation to BoyBands and how creative pop production and songwriting teams function. Included here are practical resources such as recording studio equipment lists producer business deal examples and a 12-step mixing technique where Harding expands upon previously released material to explain how ‘Stay Another Day’ by East 17 changed his approach to mixing forever. However it is important to note that Harding almost downplays his involvement in his career. At no point is he center stage; he humbly discusses his position within the greater scheme of events. Pop Music Production offers cutting-edge analysis of a genre rarely afforded academic attention. This book is aimed at lecturers and students in the subject fields of Music Production Audio Engineering Music Technology Popular Songwriting Studies and Popular Music Culture. It is suitable for all levels of study from FE students through to PhD researchers. Pop Music Production is also designed as a follow-up to Harding’s first book PWL from the Factory Floor (2010 Cherry Red Books) a memoir of his time working with 1980s pop production and songwriting powerhouse Stock Aitken Waterman at PWL Studios. | Pop Music Production Manufactured Pop and BoyBands of the 1990s

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The Context of Legislating Constraints on the Legislative Process in the United States

The Context of Legislating Constraints on the Legislative Process in the United States

The Context of Legislating provides a much-needed examination of how the rules resources and political conditions within and surrounding different institutions raise or lower the costs of legislating. Using data tracking over 1 100 legislators 230 committees and 12 000 bills introduced in ten state lower chambers Shannon Jenkins examines how political conditions and institutional rules and resources shape the arc of the legislative process by raising the costs of some types of legislative activity and lowering the costs of others. Jenkins traces these important contextual effects across the legislative process examining bill introduction committee processing and floor passage of bills in these legislatures. The analysis reveals that institutional variables shape the legislative process on their own but they also have important interactive effects that shape the behavior of actors in these chambers. After tracing these effects across the legislative process the book concludes by examining the practical implications of these analytical findings. How can the rules of institutions be designed to create effective legislatures? And what do these findings mean for those who seek to shape the policies produced by these institutions? Understanding of how the context of legislating shapes the outputs of legislatures is a critical element of understanding legislatures that has been sorely missing. An original and timely resource for scholars and students researching state legislatures and state politics. | The Context of Legislating Constraints on the Legislative Process in the United States

GBP 18.99
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Quality Management in Engineering A Scientific and Systematic Approach

Quality Management in Engineering A Scientific and Systematic Approach

This book introduces fundamental advanced and future-oriented scientific quality management methods for the engineering and manufacturing industries. It presents new knowledge and experiences in the manufacturing industry with real world case studies. It introduces Quality 4. 0 with Industry 4. 0 including quality engineering tools for software quality and offers lean quality management methods for lean manufacturing. It also bridges the gap between quality management and quality engineering and offers a scientific methodology for problem solving and prevention. The methods techniques templates and processes introduced in this book can be utilized in various areas in industry from product engineering to manufacturing and shop floor management. This book will be of interest to manufacturing industry leaders and managers who do not require in-depth engineering knowledge. It will also be helpful to engineers in design and suppliers in management and manufacturing all who have daily concerns with project and quality management. Students in business and engineering programs may also find this book useful as they prepare for careers in the engineering and manufacturing industries. Presents new knowledge and experiences in the manufacturing industry with real world case studiesIntroduces quality engineering methods for software developmentIntroduces Quality 4. 0 with Industry 4. 0Offers lean quality management methods for lean manufacturingBridges the gap between quality management methods and quality engineeringProvides scientific methodology for product planning problem solving and prevention managementIncludes forms templates and tools that can be used conveniently in the field | Quality Management in Engineering A Scientific and Systematic Approach

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Solution Focused Team Coaching

Solution Focused Team Coaching

Solution Focused Team Coaching offers readers a simple practical and effective way to coach teams. Its evidence-based approach which has been applied successfully to many fields is presented in an engaging pragmatic and approachable way making this book a must read for anyone who wants to broaden their horizon within the team coaching space. This book presents the background and philosophy of Solution Focused team coaching and then moves on to explore its practical application in various formats of team coaching with different audience dimensions. The reader will find a useful structure for team coaching processes as well as detailed descriptions for facilitating team coaching “moves” (conventionally called “techniques” or “tools”) for both online and live settings. With this book it is easy to plan a Solution Focused team coaching process from contract negotiation through workshop design to follow-up and evaluation. It covers difficult team situations such as conflicts and different forms of teams from shop-floor to executive teams Agile teams and special formats of team coaching as well as how to facilitate larger teams. Additionally readers who want to achieve certification and/or accreditation will find it extremely useful to read about ICF EMCC and AC team coaching competencies and how Solution Focused team coaching is an easy way of embedding those competencies. Solution Focused Team Coaching is a must for any coach from those who would like to learn a pragmatic impactful and easy way to move into team coaching to experienced team coaches who would like to learn a new approach and expand their skills and anybody interested in exploring the fascinating world of team coaching.

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