| Book Description
This casebook, designed as a companion volume to Richard J.
Schonberger's World Class Manufacturing: The Lessons of Simplicity
Applied, contains 26 cases that let students of WCM concepts solve
actual JIT and TQC implementation problems in a wide variety of
manufacturing and corporate settings. For readers with specific
concerns, each case lists the topics covered (i.e., kanban, total
preventive maintenance, partnership with customer) and each case
includes questions on issues that companies commonly face in
implementing WCM concepts. Dr. Schonberger also explains two JIT
and TQC concepts not previously published -- micro-JIT analysis of
shop-floor conditions by ratios and the "naturalistic"
approach to quality improvement.
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