World Class Manufacturing
The Lessons of Simplicity Applied
$47.58
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
24 January 2008
Summary
Since the invention of double-entry bookkeeping, managers have judged a company’s worth by sales and profits. Now Richard Schonberger exposes the fallacies of this timeless practice. Schonberger’s pathbreaking new research reveals that, from 1950 to 1995, while “financials” dipped and soared repeatedly, industrial decline and ascendancy correlated perfectly with inventory turnover – one of two key nonfinancial indicators and a bedrock measure, along with customer satisfaction, of a company’s …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781416592549 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1416592547 |
| Author: | Richard J. Schonberger |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | The Free Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 24 January 2008 |
| Weight: | 404g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 152mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
Soma Coulibaly Operations Quality Assurance Manager, Hallmark Cards, Inc. Once again, Richard Schonberger has defined the new standard for excellence.
John M. Burnham
CFPIM Regional Vice President, American Production and Inventory Control Society
Richard Schonberger has successfully addressed the next steps in the journey toward becoming world-class manufacturers – issues of holistic view and perspective, effective interfacing among functional areas, and demonstrated results that demolish the arguments that “we’re different” and “it can’t be done.” Each of his chapter topics is logically and persuasively developed. In a word, I wish I had written this book.
Philip Gray
Vice President, Defense Systems & Electronics Group, Texas Instruments
“World Class Manufacturing” brings together for the first time all the programs and approaches we at Texas Instruments and other companies have been working toward for the past six years – total quality control, just-in-time manufacturing, statistical process control, manufacturing cells, and, most important, employee involvement. It will be required reading for managers who have marketing, product design, and manufacturing responsibilities.
Richard J. Schonberger
Richard J. Schonberger is the author of Japanese Manufacturing Techniques. President of the consulting firm of Schonberger & Associates, Inc., in Seattle, Washington, he was formerly George Cook Professor of Management at the University of Nebraska. He is a world-renowned authority on production and manufacturing.
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