Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 283 pages
- Published by: Shady Brook Pr
- Edition: 1st Edition March 3, 2003
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0972788107
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0972788106
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Book Dimensions:
9.3 x 6.3 x 1 inches
- Weighs: 1.4 pounds
Product Description
Author Ronald L. Buckley describes a step-by-step process that will enable manufacturing companies to become efficient money-making organizations, able to compete and win in the new Millennium. The author draws on his own manufacturing experience to share real life challenges, describing situations that readers involved in manufacturing will find relevant, interesting and useful. He explores in detail such vital topics as:
Continuous Improvement: a process which not only improves profits but also develops employees' skills and knowledge, making them a greater asset to their company.
Lean-flow Manufacturing techniques, with productivity-raising programs that create flexibility and improve throughput velocity, such as: linked-cell Kanban pull systems and quality improvement techniques including Statistical Process Control, Six Sigma, Poka-yoke (Mistake Proofing), First-Pass Yield Improvement and Out-of-Box Failure elimination.
"Cross-Functional Self-Directed Teams," in which employees from many different areas of the business work as a team to improve the Company's competitive position, as well as their own self-confidence and job satisfaction.
Author Ronald L. Buckley is a recognized operations leader in the manufacturing world, with thirty-five years of experience and manufacturing expertise in improving quality, reducing costs and delighting his Customers.
An investment made in reading this book will prove to be fruitful not only to the reader but also to all those individuals over whom the reader has direct and indirect influence.
About The Author
Author Ronald L. Buckley is a recognized operations leader in the manufacturing world, with thirty-five years of experience and manufacturing expertise in improving quality, ensuring on-time delivery, and reducing costs. He has held positions of increasing responsibility in several of this country's most highly regarded manufacturing companies, most recently as Vice President of Manufacturing for General Electric Medical Systems Information Technologies. The author has held similar positions with Raytheon and US Surgical (Tyco). He has served as an advisor on the Board of Governors for the Connecticut Technology Program for Lean Manufacturing (ConnStep), on the State of Connecticut Industry Cluster Advisory Board, and on the Manufacturer's Coalition Advisory Board Connecticut Technology Association.
Reader ReviewsAuthor Ronald Buckley has written what will surely be considered the Manifesto for Manufacturing at the dawn of the Third Millenium. He clearly and concisely puts forth a methodology based, not on theory, but his own experiences in turning his factories into manufacturing powerhouses to be reckoned with. From the factory, to quality, to cross functional self-directed work teams, Buckley shares with his readers a blueprint for "doers". Only a thirty year operations veteran could offer his readers this sage advise, " Sure, it would be nice if the resources were available for a full blown Six Sigma program; however much progress can be made using the simpler tools, such as SPC. So if you are a smaller organization, start with SPC and when you collect from the payoff of your efforts here, move on to Six Sigma, but don't think for a minute that you cannot compete without it." This may be considered heresy by the Six Sigma "bigots" but for a small or midsize company struggling to survive it's like the clouds parting and the stone tablets being handed down from on high! If your company's back is up against a wall, your choices have been reduced to two: You can quit or you can stand and fight. If you choose to stand and fight "Winning in a Highly Competitive Manufacturing Environment" can be a tool to begin rebuilding your factory with a chance to have a future!
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