Optimizing Factory Performance: CostEffective Ways to Achieve Significant and Sustainable Improvement,Used

Optimizing Factory Performance: CostEffective Ways to Achieve Significant and Sustainable Improvement,Used

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TQM, Reengineering,Theory of Constraints, JIT,Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing . . .These are just some of the methods that, overthe past five decades, have promised to transformany manufacturing firm into a lean, mean, moneymakingmachine. While each incorporates certainfundamental truths, strengths, and benefits, theyare not panaceas. Nor do they necessarily providemuchneeded insight into the science that underliesfactory performance.James Ignizio, Ph.D., an internationally recognizedperformance optimization expert, believesthat only a balanced approach will provide thesignificant and sustainable improvement requiredof firms who will survive and prosper in thetwentyfirst century.In this breakthrough guide, Dr. Ignizio picks upwhere such concepts as Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturingleave off to provide you with a holistic,threedimensional approach to mastering the artand science of manufacturing.Focusing on the three primary enemiesof factory performancecomplexity, variability,and lackluster leadershipOptimizing FactoryPerformance cuts to the heart of the problem oflessthanworldclass performance and demonstrateshow those enemies manifest themselves incompanies across manufacturing sectors. Ignizioalso explores the insidious effect company politicsand flagging commitment to manufacturing performancehave on competitiveness.Emphasizing the allimportant, often overlookedthird dimension of manufacturingfactoryprotocolsIgnizio describes the types of strategicand tactical changes to physical plant and operatingprocedures any company can make to achieveperformance improvements. In addition, he arms youwith powerful, original metrics for measuring andcomparing factory performance, as well as a set ofinteractive simulation models, available online atwww.mhprofessional.com/ignizio.Running throughout the book is an oftenamusing, always instructive account of the fictionalhightech firm, Muddle, Inc., which helps supportthe concepts discussed in the real world of manufacturing,while reinforcing key lessons learned.Read Optimizing Factory Performance and findout how to transform your organization into the kindof fast, agile manufacturer that delivers the rightproducts to the right customers at the right timeevery time.

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