The Kaizen Blitz accelerating breakthroughs in productivity and performance

The Association for Manufacturing Excellence has pioneered a powerful version of kaizen - a process for achieving continuous improvement in an organization - called the Kaizen Blitz. This book will show you how to use this tool to deliver breakthrough improvements in your company in areas like produ...

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Main Author: Laraia, Anthony C. 1947-
Other Authors: Moody, Patricia E., Hall, Robert W.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York John Wiley c1999
Series:National Association of Manufacturers series
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300 |a xix, 282 p.  |b ill.  |c 24 cm 
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500 |a Includes index 
505 0 |a Introduction: The Creation of AME's Kaizen Blitz, Jon Brodeur -- The Power of AME's Kaizen Blitz: Learning by Doing -- The Roots of Kaizen -- Improvement Strategy: Implementing the Big Picture -- Getting Ready for Kaizen -- Timeprints and Takt Times -- How to Tell If There Is Improvement: Adding Value, Subtracting Waste -- Uncovering the Flows: Establishing and Clarifying Process Flows -- Forms, Charts, and Measurements -- Sustaining the Gain -- Lean Leadership -- Never Look Back 
520 |a The Association for Manufacturing Excellence has pioneered a powerful version of kaizen - a process for achieving continuous improvement in an organization - called the Kaizen Blitz. This book will show you how to use this tool to deliver breakthrough improvements in your company in areas like productivity, inventory reduction, capacity expansion, and much more. You'll learn how to assemble a kaizen team that will determine solutions to your company's specific problems by designing new systems, correcting mistakes quickly and moving on, running and refining procedures, and ultimately demonstrating a new process in place in just a few days. You'll also read about top U.S. manufacturers who have successfully used the Kaizen Blitz to bring about radical, positive change. 
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700 1 |a Hall, Robert W. 
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