The Shingo Production Management System: Improving Process Functions - Hardcover

Shingo, Shigeo

 
9780915299522: The Shingo Production Management System: Improving Process Functions

Synopsis

Here, in Dr. Shingo's final book, he gives us a comprehensive system for the improvement of production functions. This book's broad scope encompasses such diverse topics as Value Engineering, CAD/CAM techniques, and information management. If you've never read Shingo, it will give you an overview of his brilliant concepts. If you are familiar with his genius, you'll find it a much-needed network of his ideas.

It includes:

  • Historical revolutions in production.
  • A production management revolution in the United States.
  • A scientific thinking mechanism for improvement.
  • Creating an improvement plan.
  • Basic flaws in conventional production management improvement.
  • Process functions and operational functions.
  • The effect of the division of labor on the development of work.

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