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In order to cut costs during the economic downturn, many businesses are implementing abstinence policies.
This could mean laying off workers and cutting some wages.
In fact, those actions might only work for a short time.
Unless the company implements a culture of continuous improvement and alters its method of operation, the situation may recur and become even worse.
This brings us back to the purpose for which the Toyota production system was...
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To save money during the economic downturn, many businesses are using abstinence policies. This might mean firing employees and reducing pay for some people. Actually, those actions might only work for a little while. If the company doesn't make a culture of always getting better and change how it works, the problem might happen again and get even worse. This takes us back to the reason why the Toyota production system was created.Waste means something...
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Today, tens of thousands of companies are struggling to become "time-based" competitors, inspired by such corporations as Motorola, General Electric, Citicorp, and a myriad of others who have cut production time in half-or more. But until now, the literature has focused on the theory and philosophy of fast cycle time, rather than the tools and techniques for implementing it. Here, for the first time, Christopher Meyer, an internationally recognized...
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The paradigm change in the twenty-first century for project management needs to be addressed in a new concept of a Quality Management System (QMS). The current practices of project management as they relate to QMS do not adequately address customer concerns. To satisfy these concerns, the creators must plan, execute and, most importantly, document what is necessary for the individual project within the program under the umbrella of the organization....
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Creativity has long been thought to be an individual gift, best pursued alone; schools, organizations, and whole industries are built on this idea. But what if the most common beliefs about how creativity works are wrong? Group Genius tears down some of the most popular myths about creativity, revealing that creativity is always collaborative--even when you're alone. Sharing the results of his own acclaimed research on jazz groups, theater ensembles,...
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Gemba is a Japanese word meaning the actual place where value-creating work happens. Many leaders use gemba only for solving problems, visiting only when there is an issue. Others practice gemba walks on a daily basis to follow up and monitor the situation. However, Toyota believes that leaders truly develop through daily experiences at the gemba. In reality, gemba is a principle for managing, developing and improving people and processes. It is a...
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L'avenir appartient aux managers qui sauront souder leur équipe afin d'optimiser la performance de l'entreprise.
Ouvrage de référence sur le management et la communication d'équipe, ce livre est aussi un guide pratique. Il enseigne une méthode simple et innovante pour impliquer vos collaborateurs, stimuler l'intelligence collective et ainsi alléger votre gestion au quotidien. Vous y puiserez une abondance d'exemples et de pistes d'action...
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Many businesses say that lean failed to meet their long-term objectives and that the improvements it brought about were only temporary. When businesses utilize lean as a toolkit, copying and pasting the methodologies without trying to adapt the employee culture, manage the improvement process, maintain the outcomes, and grow their leaders, 7 out of every 10 lean projects fail. The primary objective when the Toyota production method was developed was...
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Heijunka, which means "production smoothing or leveling" in Japanese, is a method that helps balance production in all areas and with suppliers over time. It aims to make Just-In-Time (JIT) production easier. Heijunka is an important part of Just-in-Time (JIT) production. It means finding and keeping a consistent level of production. The main purpose of using the Heijunka technique is to provide goods at a consistent pace, which allows other operationsto...
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Takt is a German word that means the speed or rhythm of something. Takt time is a number that helps make sure that the pace of making pacemakers matches the pace of selling them. One of the most important things to consider in lean manufacturing is takt time. This is the rate at which customers want a certain group of products to be produced by one step in the manufacturing process. Takt time is a number that tells us how much time we have to make...
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Yet many companies focus on the mechanisms of implementation--one-piece flow, pull production, takt time, standard work, kanban--without linking those mechanisms back to the pillars that hold up the entire system. JIT is fairly well understood, but jidoka is key to making the entire system stick. A lot of failed implementations can be traced back to not building this second pillar. Jidoka is one of the main pillars of the TPS. The TPS is presented...
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In order to identify unusual vibration occurrences and assess the general health of the test object, vibration analysis is a procedure that tracks vibration levels and looks into the patterns in vibration signals within a component, piece of equipment, or building. It is frequently conducted on both the frequency spectrum, which is derived by applying Fourier Transform to the time waveform, as well as the time waveforms of the vibration signal directly.Mechnical...
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Mantenimiento industrial aplicado es un libro didáctico destinado a crear una gestión de mantenimiento integral, orientada a la mejora y al desarrollo de la actividad industrial. Es un paso a paso que ofrece al lector una visión completa de cómo debe ser abordado el mantenimiento industrial, desde el inicio hasta su implementación.
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Cyberattacks are more destructive than ever, but your c-suite can stop them. This book tells you how.
Cyberattacks are worse now than ever before. To defeat cybercriminals, companies must focus on the low-hanging fruits of cybersecurity. It's all about the basics. Companies laid low by ransomware failed to practice good cyber hygiene by recklessly allowing weak or reused passwords, not turning on multi-factor authentication, or neglecting to install...
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Having no standardization work process means no quality. Everyone will do this task differently. Tracking the source of errors is difficult without the work standard. When a leader perform gemba walk on shop floor to observe the situation, there is no benefit from the walk when there is no standard. In the classic old way of management, companies were and (many are still) following the Taylor's principle, Taylor said that industrial engineers should...
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In spite of highly industrial development trend, manpower requirement plays a vital role. An organization should be prepared well in advance to face the needs, or else all its operation will come to a grinding halt.
Some specialized equipmentsare operated by certain trained skilled personnel and if they are expected to retire in the month of November, then the organization should be aware of it and forecast it to prepare new comers with adequate...
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Overall Equipment Effectiveness: A measurement of total productive maintenance (TPM) that quantifies how efficiently equipment is used. OEE is derived from three factors: The availability rate calculates the percentage of scheduled time lost due to equipment breakdowns and changes. The operating speed losses-running at rates slower than the design speed and brief stops-are measured by the performance rate. The quality rate calculates the percentage...
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Takt time is calculated as the amount of manufacturing time that is available divided by the volume of orders. In the 1930s, the German aviation industry employed Takt for the first time as a production management tool. The idea was widely used within Toyota in the 1950s, and by the late 1960s, it had been adopted by the majority of the Toyota supplier base. Every month, Toyota assesses the takt for a process, with a modifying review occurring every...
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Production kanban, which translates to "sign" or "signboard" in Japanese, instructs an upstream process on the kind and number of goods to produce for a downstream process. In a pull system, a kanban is a signalling tool that provides approval and instructions for the manufacture or withdrawal (conveyance) of products. The conveyance used by the downstream process is referred to as the "withdrawal." The assembly process and the client, the assembly...
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This comprehensive guide reveals 11 paths to making money in the scrapbook market, along with the tools to do it. Every career option, business situation, and topic a scrapbook artist may encounter is covered in clear, calm, step-by-step explanations and short, easy-to-grasp chapters. Quotes, advice, and tips from industry experts; checklists and self-assessment questionnaires; convenient business forms, sample contracts, and planning tools; and amusing...
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