{"product_id":"9780071632850-optimizing-factory-performance-cost-effective-ways-to-achieve-significant-and-sustainable-improvement","title":"Optimizing Factory Performance: Cost - Effective Ways To Achieve Significant And Sustainable Improvement","description":"Binding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: 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 providemuch - needed 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 thetwenty - first century. In this breakthrough guide Dr. Ignizio picks upwhere such concepts as Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturingleave off to provide you with a holistic three - dimensional approach to mastering the artand science of manufacturing. Focusing on the three primary enemiesof factory performance complexity variability and lackluster leadership Optimizing Factory Performance cuts to the heart of the problem ofless - than - world - class 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 all - important often overlookedthird dimension of manufacturing factoryprotocols Ignizio 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 fictionalhigh - tech 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 time every time.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Optimizing Factory Performance: Cost - Effective Ways To Achieve Significant And Sustainable Improvement\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Ignizio James\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Mcgraw - Hill Education - Europe\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9780071632850\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 400 Pages, 75 Illustrations, Unspecified\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 8\/1\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Production \u0026amp; Quality Control Management","brand":"Ignizio James","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49591092412721,"sku":"IN-G-9780071632850","price":64.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9780071632850-optimizing-factory-performance-cost-effective-ways-to-achieve-significant-and-sustainable-improvement","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}