This book explains the increasingly important concept of 'just-in-time' management of manufacturing or JIT. The essence of the book is to show managers how JIT works, both in theory and practice, and how they can learn from Japanese manufacturers, who developed JIT. Key feature of the book include (1) its practical nature, which is provided in a highly detailed analysis of JIT and (2) setting JIT in the broader manufacturing context. It is required reading for all manufacturing and production ma...
Baths and Sanitaryware (Key Note Report S.)
All I Need to Know about Manufacturing I Learned in Joe's Garage : World
by William B Miller
Cartons & Cartoning
World Textiles
This is a story about goat hair, gathered from herds that graze among the high-altitude monasteries of Little Tibet, woven in villages near the Kashmiri border with Pakistan, and sold to the ladies-who-lunch of London's Notting Hill. It is also the story of a beautiful valley with some ugly secrets. A journalist based in India, Justine Hardy started trading pashmina shawls as a way of raising money to support an education programme in some of Delhi's slum areas. In setting up the company she spe...
The Five Year Outlook for the Global OCTG Market
Tomorrow's Team: Women and Men in Construction (Construction Industry Board, #9)
This report focuses on equal opportunities for women within the industry. It encourages the development of attitudes, practices and physical environments within the industry that neither directly nor indirectly have the effect of placing women at a disadvantage. The working group for this guide was chaired by Sandi Rhys-Jones from the Constructors Liaison Group.
Code of Practice for the Selection of Sub-Contractors (CIB reports)
This code of practice sets out the following key principles. It: seeks a commitment to short tender lists and selection on the basis of quality and price; ensures that contractors offer sub-contracts which meet the principles contained in 'Constructing the Team'; rules out Dutch auctioning; ensures that main contractors notify clients in advance of the commencement of work of the names of 'first line' subcontractors; secures a commitment from subcontractors to work co-operatively with other subc...
World Textile and Apparel Trade and Production Trends
Indian Steel Industry: Market Projections and Company Strategies Out to 2015
Design for Six SIGMA, Chapter 5 - Design for Six SIGMA Project Algorithm
by Dr Kai Yang
Construction Statistics Annual
2018 U.S. Industry Forecast-Manufacturing Industries (2018 U.S. Industry Forecast, #2)
by Craig a Barnes
Additive Manufacturing for Plastic Recycling (Sustainable Manufacturing Technologies)
This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date discussion of breakthroughs on additive manufacturing for plastic material recycling to boost a circular economy. It offers new ideas of combining/hybridizing processing methods that work as a source of information for manufacturers in making new and strategic product development plans. Additive Manufacturing for Plastic Recycling: Efforts in Boosting a Circular Economy provides a critical, comprehensive, methodological, and strong state-of-the...