Wed, 01/26/2011 - 09:29
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Enabling management to verify that processes are being performed correctly and in an efficient manner, standardized work provides limitless opportunities for process improvements. So much so, that it has become a…
Tue, 01/11/2011 - 11:22
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Traditional statistical process control assumes that manufacturing process data come from a normal bell-curve distribution. Numerous supplier reports and in-house control charts are essentially meaningless, because…
Mon, 01/10/2011 - 13:52
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Written specifically to address the application of lean practices in government and the public sector, Lean for the Public Sector: The Pursuit of Perfection in Government Services, by Bert Teeuwen (CRC Press, 2010),…
Tue, 01/04/2011 - 12:01
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Miniaturization and nanotechnology have become inextricably linked to traditional surface geometry and metrology. This interdependence of scales has had profound practical implications.
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Tue, 12/21/2010 - 16:35
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- From newborns switched in the nursery to medication mix-ups and hospital-acquired infections, we are all familiar with the horror stories about hospital safety. The safety issue in U.S. hospitals has become so…
Mon, 12/13/2010 - 12:42
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- In the book Leading the Lean Healthcare Journey: Driving Culture Change to Increase Value (CRC Press, 2010), by Joan Wellman, Patrick Hagan, and Dr. Howard Jeffries, every health care organization can learn from…
Tue, 11/09/2010 - 15:58
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Explanations of theory, lists of rules, and discussions of procedure are the basis of learning lean Six Sigma. However without a visceral understanding of the application of this powerful system in various…
Tue, 11/09/2010 - 05:00
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- The growing demand for online courses and supporting technology has resulted in structural and functional challenges for universities and colleges. These changes have led many distance-education providers to recognize…
Wed, 10/06/2010 - 18:54
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- The A3 format was developed by Toyota for telling the story of improvement. It provides a way of communicating a proposed idea or a problem on a single A3-sized sheet of paper, encouraging efficiency, clarity, and…
Fri, 09/24/2010 - 12:25
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- With the exponential increase in computing power and the broad proliferation of digital cameras, super-resolution imaging is poised to become the next “killer app.” The growing interest in this technology has…