Selecting the right manufacturing improvement tools : what tool? When?

Many industrial engineers, manufacturing managers, design engineers, and other professionals charged with the responsibilities of product development, manufacture, and ongoing operations, are baffled by the plethora of quality improvement tools that have been developed over the last 20 years or so.

Lean management? Six Sigma? Kaizen management? What do they mean and when is one used over another?

This new book, by acclaimed author and industry consultant Ron Moore, helps to answer those questions and then some.

The book will first outline the essential aspects of these quality control and quality management tools.

It will then go on to explain how each is applied and when best applied, pointing out comparative advantages and disadvantages.

One of the most important concepts this book develops, however, is Aligning the Organization.

Without it, all of these management tools will produce at best fragmented results, and at worst cause more harm than good.

Manufacturing has to align with marketing, and each must align with overall product and business growth strategy.The book offers unprecedented help in understanding how everything from Failure Mode and Effects Analysis to Lean Manufacturing to Predictive Maintenance to Root Cause Analysis work together and can have lasting and meaningful effect on the success of any manufacturing enterprise.

Written expressly for materials engineering students who have a need to gather broad-based materials knowledge yet understand the fundamentals addresses a wide variety of materials-related technical needs that can prescribe both, the why and the how of a process addresses the processing metals, ceramics, polymers and composites, including semiconductors and other functional materials.