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The Machine That Changed the World
The Story of Lean Production-- Toyota's Secret Weapon in the Global Car Wars That Is Now Revolutionizing World Industry
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2007
The classic, nationally bestselling book that first articulated the principles of lean production, with a new foreword and afterword by the authors.
When The Machine That Changed the World was first published in 1990, Toyota was half the size of General Motors. Twenty years later Toyota passed...
by Fionnuala Halligan
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Production designers are artistic masters in their own right. They are responsible for the 'look' of a movie; joining productions at an early stage, they coordinate costume design, special effects, set design, make-up, and location scouting to ensure a unified visual appearance. In Production Design,...
by Andreas Behr
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2016
This textbook introduces essential topics and techniques in production and efficiency analysis and shows how to apply these methods using the statistical software R. Numerous small simulations lead to a deeper understanding of random processes assumed in the models and of the behavior of estimation...
Capacity and Inventory Planning for Make-to-Order Production Systems
The Impact of a Customer Required Lead Time Distribution
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
The book presents different models for the simultaneous optimization problem of capacity investment and work release rule parameterization. The overall costs are minimized either including backorder costs or considering a service level constraint. The available literature is extended with the integration...
The New Production of Users
Changing Innovation Collectives and Involvement Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Behind the steady stream of new products, technologies, systems and services in our modern societies there is prolonged and complicated battle around the role of users. How should designers get to know the users’ interests and needs? Who should speak for the users? How may designers collaborate...
The Toyota Template
The Plan for Just-In-Time and Culture Change Beyond Lean Tools
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Much has been written about Toyota over the last 30 years focusing on both its products (superior vehicles), and its operational excellence based on its Toyota Production System (TPS). The Toyota Template details the critical concepts and methods that Taiichi Ohno implemented in developing the Toyota...
Screen Production Research
Creative Practice as a Mode of Enquiry
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Aimed at students and educators across all levels of Higher Education, this agenda-setting book defines what screen production research is and looks like—and by doing so celebrates creative practice as an important pursuit in the contemporary academic landscape. Drawing on the work of international...
by Larry Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Put the Adobe Production Premium toolset to use throughout your production to realize astonishing efficiencies and creative opportunities. Adobe's CS tools are the perfect compliment to Final Cut Studio, with tools that improve your preproduction, production and postproduction capabilities in leaps...
Boardroom Director
How To Produce Exceptional Corporate Video
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Film and video production is an exciting career. And every year, more than a million students worldwide enrol in a film or video production course or program, many of whom pin their hopes on becoming the next Quentin Tarantino or Kathryn Bigelow. And yet, the odds of achieving this are extremely low....
Dynamic and Seamless Integration of Production, Logistics and Traffic
Fundamentals of Interdisciplinary Decision Support
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
This book contributes a basic framework for and specific insights into interdisciplinary connections between production, logistics, and traffic subsystems. The book is divided into two parts, the first of which presents an overview of interdisciplinarity in value-added networks and freight traffic....
Essays in Production, Project Planning and Scheduling
A Festschrift in Honor of Salah Elmaghraby
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
From the Preface:
This festschrift is devoted to recognize the career of a man who not only witnessed the growth of operations research from its inception, but also contributed significantly to this growth. Dr. Salah E. Elmaghraby received his doctorate degree from Cornell University in 1958,...
3D-Druck und Lean Production
Schlanke Produktionssysteme mit additiver Fertigung
Language: German
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Die Prinzipien und Methoden der Lean Production haben aus wissenschaftlicher Perspektive einen hohen Reifegrad erreicht, ihr Durchdringungsgrad in der Unternehmenspraxis steigt stetig. Die additiven Fertigungsverfahren des 3D-Drucks entwickeln sich sehr dynamisch im Hinblick auf neue Verfahren, Materialien...
Write to Shoot
Writing Short Films for Production
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Write to Shoot teaches budding screenwriters and screenwriting filmmakers how to write a short script with production in mind. Beker instructs them how to showcase their strengths, tailor projects to shoestring budgets, resources, and practical production parameters without sacrificing the quality...
Bottles, Preforms and Closures
A Design Guide for PET Packaging
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
As a consultant to the plastics industry, Ottmar Brandau’s focus is on using his engineering knowhow and production management experience to improve quality and productivity, cut down cycle time and introduce secondary processes such as inline printing. This book is a thoroughly practical handbook...