Business Management & Leadership
The Product Wheel Handbook Creating Balanced Flow in High-Mix Process Operations Peter L. King and Jennifer S. King “A clearly written guide to designing and improving product wheels ... . Pete and Jennifer King take you through a logical step-by-step process without ever resorting to simplistic recipes. This book will be valuable to businesses where both pull and push systems apply. Highly recommended!” —Peter C. Compo, Director of Integrated Business Management, DuPont
“The authors have a gift for writing well, in a way that will keep the reader connected throughout this excellent work. It flows through the methodology in a well-structured and logical way and could only be written by someone who has lived through product wheel implementation many times ... definitely a must-read for any Lean practitioner.” —Henrique Fagundes, Senior Project Manager, DuPont
The product wheel (PW) design process has practical methods for finding the optimum sequence, therefore minimizing changeover costs and freeing up useful capacity. This book describes this proven technique for dealing with all of the issues related to multiple product situations. It walks the reader through a logical, detailed, step-by-step, process for designing and implementing the PW technique. Breaking down a fairly complex design process into discrete, practical, manageable steps, it includes a case study that illustrates the design process and the benefits.
The Expanded and Annotated My Life and Work Henry Ford's Universal Code for World-Class Success William A. Levinson, Henry Ford, and Samuel Crowther Henry Ford's My Life and Work remains one of the most comprehensive books on management ever written: a universal code, to use Ford's words, that applies to every human field of endeavor. It contains not only all the basic elements of what is now called the Toyota Production System, but also the organizational and human relations principles necessary to gain buy-in and engagement from all participants. This annotated edition intersperses Ford's original material with detailed explanations and contemporary examples that put it into context for twenty-first century business leaders and Lean manufacturing practitioners. • Delivers unequivocal world-class results in the language of money as applied by its author during the first part of the twentieth century • Synergizes Lean manufacturing and human relations principles into a universal code that makes it possible to deliver high profits, high wages, and low prices simultaneously
Selected Contents:
• Breaks a fairly complex design process down into manageable steps
Introduction. The Beginning of Business. What I Learned About Business. Starting the Real Business. The Secret of Manufacturing and Serving. Getting Into Production. Machines and Men. The Terror of the Machine. Wages. Why Not Always Have Good Business? How Cheaply can Things be Made? Money and Goods. Money—Master or Servant? Why Be Poor? The Tractor and Power Farming. Why Charity? The Railroads. Things in General. Democracy and Industry.
Catalog no. K15304, April 2013, 219 pp. Soft Cover, ISBN: 978-1-4665-5418-4 $49.95 / £31.99
Catalog no. K15486, April 2013, 319 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4665-5771-0 $49.95 / £31.99
• Describes a proven technique for dealing with the issues related to multiple product situations • Walks the reader through a step-by-step process for designing and implementing the techniques
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