epub |eng | 2015-12-12 | Author:Sia Mohajer [Mohajer, Sia]

Chapter 10: False Cause ♦ ♦ ♦ “Correlation does not imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing, ‘look over there’.” —xkcd catalog30 If ...

epub |eng | | Author:Don Norman

The Problem of Inappropriate Automation I once argued that the current state of automation was fundamentally unsound because it was in the dangerous middle ground, neither fully automated nor fully ...

epub |eng | 2015-06-28 | Author:Reddy, Ajay

Takt Time We know “lead time” is the time it takes to deliver a work item, as measured from the initial commitment through delivery into the first infinite queue. “Throughput” ...

azw3 |eng | 2015-06-28 | Author:Reddy, Ajay [Reddy, Ajay]

Takt Time We know “lead time” is the time it takes to deliver a work item, as measured from the initial commitment through delivery into the first infinite queue. “Throughput” ...

mobi |eng | 2007-03-12 | Author:Womack, James P. & Jones, Daniel T. [Womack, James P.]

7 DEALING WITH CUSTOMERS We’ve now walked through the steps in the motor-vehicle production process—the factory, research and product development, and components supply. In each of these areas, we found ...

epub |eng | 1996-06-12 | Author:Michael Hammer

JIM MARR OF TEXAS INSTRUMENTS—COACH Texas Instruments is not only becoming a process-centered organization through reengineering, it is using the structures and techniques of process centering in the reengineering effort ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1997-08-07 | Author:Michael Hammer

PART III ENTERPRISE CHAPTER 10 THE SOUL OF A NEW COMPANY A CORPORATION is more than a collection of processes, more than a set of products and services, even more ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2012-01-23 | Author:Daniel Markovitz [Markovitz, Daniel]

It’s no surprise that our ability to focus on a single task without interruption is waning. To some extent, an increase in interruptions is an inevitable result of the larger, ...

epub |eng | 2011-12-19 | Author:Mark & Graban [Mark & Graban]

Conclusion As with any Lean tools or methods, hospitals should not implement visual management, 5S, or kanban because a book says so or to be part of a trend. The ...

epub |eng | 2015-11-01 | Author:Joakim Ahlstrom [Ahlstrom, Joakim]

Description of the IT company’s systematic improvement work Analysis of the Results Imagine what would happen if I took you and ten of your colleagues to a junkyard and asked ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2013-09-23 | Author:Boutros, Tristan & Purdie, Tim [Boutros, Tristan]

FIGURE 6-17 Knowledge Management LifeCycle NOTE The KM life cycle is repetitive in nature, as are most Process Improvement methods, and is an ongoing activity. Benefits of Knowledge Management Knowledge ...

epub |eng | 2010-03-25 | Author:Thomas Pyzdek & Paul A. Keller

FIGURE 8.9 Control chart patterns: freaks. FIGURE 8.10 Control chart patterns: drift. Cycles often occur due to the nature of the process. Common cycles include hour of the day, day ...

mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Paul Keller

Distributions When process and population data are fit by assumed distributions, broad predictions can be made with minimal data. Popular statistical distributions include the binomial and Poisson distributions for discrete ...