Kaizen (Ky'zen), the Key to Japan's Competitive SuccessRandom House Business Division, 1986 - 259 páginas Kaizen means gradual, unending improvement, doing "little things" better; setting --and achieving --ever higher standards. It is Kaizen, says Masaaki Imai, that is the simple truth behind Japan's economic "miracle" and the real reason the Japanese have become the masters of "flexible manufacturing" technology -- the ability to adapt manufacturing processes to changing customer and market requirements, and do it fast ... For the first time, Western managers have a comprehensive handbook of 16 Kaizen management practices they can put to work. Using more than 100 examples of Kaizen in action, 15 corporate case studies, and 50 charts and graphs, Mr. Imai examines step by step all the roles Kaizen plays in. --inside cover |
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KAIZEN The Concept | 1 |
Improvement East and West | 23 |
KAIZEN by Total Quality Control | 43 |
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achieve agement Aisin-Warner analysis approach areas audit Award better campaign Cause-and-Effect Diagram check points company-wide competitive complaints control chart control points corporate cost criteria cross-functional goals cross-functional management CWQC Deming Prize deployed diagram efforts employees established evaluation factory FIGURE functional implementation industrial innovation introduce TQC involved Japa Japan Japanese companies Japanese management just-in-time KAIZEN strategy kamban Kaoru Ishikawa Komatsu labor machine maintenance management's manager's manufacturing Masaaki Imai measures ment Nissan Nissan Motor number of suggestions organization output PDCA cycle percent plant policy deployment process-oriented product planning product quality profit programs QC circles quality assurance quality deployment quality problem relations requirements result Ricoh scheduling skills small-group activities solving specific standards started suggestion system supervisors suppliers Taiichi Ohno targets tion top management Total Quality Control Toyota Toyota production system Western management workers workplace workshop
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The Practice of Quality Management Phillip J. Lederer,Uday S. Karmarkar Vista previa restringida - 1997 |