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Achieve Zero Chronic Loss through TPM Designed to help TPM teams analyze and eliminate chronic and often neglected problems, P-M analysistranscends typical improvement strategies with a rigorous 8-step method, which ensures that all causal factors are identified and fully investigated. Through effective PM analysis, worker teams develop greater awareness of their equipment, and practice unique skill-building exercises that will elevate their technical skill while eliminating the root causes of p...

Industrial Engineering (IE) lies at the heart of many waste-reduction and quality improvement efforts in the manufacturing industry. This book makes IE techniques accessible to managers, supervisors, and shop floor managers. It provides an overview of the methodologies of process analysis.

Managers of design departments face numerous obstacles and questions when trying to make internal changes, including – Identifying waste in the design process Eliminating bottlenecks Reducing repetition to an absolute minimum Knowing when to employ parallel design instead of letting a designer work on a project from start to finish In this text, consultants Sekine and Arai first identify the difficulties of transforming designers from isolated, multi-project employees to...

An excellent text as a first introduction to structures geared toward architecture students, or as a companion for more traditional engineering / math-based courses including statics and strength of materials or structural principles.    This conceptual, non-mathematical, yet technical look at the principles of structural mechanics, and the physical properties of building elements makes structural mechanics for architecture accessible to all.   Continuing Dr. Salvadori’s passion for educ...

Apparel Merchandising: The Line Starts Here is a comprehensive approach to apparel merchandising from the perspective of the apparel producer. Rosenau and Wilson draw on their extensive backgrounds in the industry covering mens tailored clothing, mens and womens sportswear and activewear and childrens wear, in both domestic and international markets. This text follows the evolution of the merchandising function with emphasis on production efficiency. This entails a focus on product development a...

This is the first substantial history of iron and steel workers in Scotland, covering over 300 years of labor and working conditions in heavy industry. It focuses on the men and boys who mastered heat and fire to make and shape iron in furnaces, forges, mills and foundries before, during, and after the industrial revolution. The second part of the book concentrates on working lives in steel production from the beginning of the industry in the 1870s until its demise in the 1990s. Themes include s...

The history of a great mill and textile manufacturer is recounted in this book with wit and erudition. The story covers Victorian enterprise on a grand scale, the experience of a major industry over many stormy years, changes of fashion, the evolution of design and production of fabrics in many forms and uses, the dramas of war and peace, and the role of the people of Bradford. Listers is both a piece of Victorian industrial history, and a company of the 20th century. The book concludes with an...