Manufacturing Handbook of Best Practices: An Innovation, Productivity, and Quality Focus (St. Lucie Press Apics Series on Resource Management)

Manufacturing Handbook of Best Practices: An Innovation, Productivity, and Quality Focus gives you a working knowledge of today's cutting edge tools - preparing you for the way you will be doing your job tomorrow. With contributions from seasoned manufacturing experts, the book provides a single-source reference to what's currently happening in modern manufacturing facilities. It covers: Agile Enterprise and Lean Manufacturing Six Sigma-Introduction and Six Sigma-Design for Manufacturing and Assembly/ Design for Six Sigma (DFMA/DFSS) ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14000 Process Analysis and Statistical Quality Control/Statistical Process Control (SQC/SPC) Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD) Theory of Constraints/Constraints Management (TOC/CM) and Theory of Innovative Problem Solving (TIPS/TRIZ) Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing Controls Integration Design of Experiments (DOE) and Robust Design Measurement Systems Analysis and much more Organized so that the content is easy to find and easy to understand, Manufacturing Handbook of Best Practices: An Innovation, Productivity, and Quality Focus presents an endless supply of the tools and techniques available to the manufacturing professional who wishes to be well-informed. Nowhere else will you find all these modern manufacturing methods covered the way they are in this comprehensive resource. Annotation The 19 chapters in this collection present new approaches to design, organization, and quality control in the manufacturing environment. The contributors describe a cross-functional approach to maximize concurrent development of both a product design and the means to produce the design, the lean manufacturing technique for eliminating waste from the production process, and the six sigma approach to advancing the objectives of continuous improvement. Other topics include the latest version of ISO 9000, the agile enterprise, measurement systems analysis, supply chain management, and the TRIZ theory of innovative problem solving. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) An agile enterprise is adept at reorganizing its people, management, physical facilities, and operating philosophy very quickly to produce highly customized products and services to satisfy a new customer or a new market.