Cellular Manufacturing
Cellular Manufacturing: One-Piece Flow for Workteams introduces production teams to basic cellular manufacturing and teamwork concepts and orients them for participating in the design of a new production cell. Use this book to get everyone on boar...
Guide to Successful Brickwork
The BDA Guide to Successful Brickwork is the definitive practical guide to obtaining successful results in brickwork construction. Written by a team of experts from the Brick Development Association, the representative group in industry for brickw...
Identifying Waste on the Shopfloor
Like all Shopfloor Series books, Identifying Waste on the Shopfloorpresents concepts and tools in simple and accessible language. The book includes many illustrations and examples to explain basic concepts and some of the challenges that are encou...
Water and Climate Change Adaptation
This publication sets out the challenge for freshwater in a changing climate and provides policy guidance on how to navigate this new "waterscape". It examines the range and complexity of possible changes¿ in the water cycle and the chal...
Health at a glance 2021
Health at a glance 2021
Standard Work for the Shopfloor
Standard work is an agreed upon set of work procedures that effectively combines people, materials, and machines to maintain quality, efficiency, safety, and predictability. Work is described precisely in terms of cycle time, work in process, sequ...
Kaizen for the Shop Floor
The philosophy of kaizen, which simply means continuous improvement, needs to adopted by any organization seeking to implement lean improvements that go beyond cost cutting. Kaizen events are opportunities to make focused changes in the workplace....
Mistake-Proofing for Operators
The Zero Quality Control System (ZQC) is a mistake-proofing approach that prevents defects by monitoring processing conditions at the source and correcting errors that cause defects. Since it is human nature to make mistakes, ZQC does not blame pe...
SharePoint User's Guide
There's nothing like teamwork for making progress on a project, but sharing information and building on each other's successes can be challenging when your team is scattered across the miles. Microsoft's SharePoint helps teams and organizations cl...
Kaizen Teian 1
Kaizen teian -- the Japanese-style proposal system for continuous improvement -- is the most direct and effective method for channeling employees' creative energies and hands-on insight. This book is the first in a new three-volume set that brings...
Lean Office
The Lean Office: Collected Practices and Cases is a compilation of articles previously published in the Productivity Press newsletter, Lean Manufacturing Advisor. These articles discuss lean implementations in non-manufacturing operations, from de...
Pull Production for the Shopfloor
In a "pull" production system, the final process pulls needed parts from the previous process, which pulls from the process before it, and so on, as determined by customer demand. This allows you to operate without preset schedules and a...
Kanban for the Shopfloor
Kanban is the name given to the inventory control card used in a pull system. The primary benefit of kanban is to reduce overproduction, the worst of the seven deadly wastes. A true kanban system produces exactly what is ordered, when it is ordere...
OEE for Operators
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is a crucial measure in TPM that reports on how well equipment is running. It factors three elements ---the time the machine is actually running, the quantity of products the machine is turning out, and the qu...
Lean Culture
The hard part of implementing a lean transformation, according to most experts, is dealing with the "soft" issues, such as culture change. Getting employees to live and breathe lean -- actively supporting and buying into lean concepts an...
Kaizen Teian 2
More than a guide to establishing a proposal system, this volume presents methods for teaching know-how. It gives each reader the principles for thinking creatively about improving his or her own work. This highly practical book is filled with eas...
Just-in-Time for Operators
Are you ready to implement a just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing program but need some help orienting employees to the power of JIT? Here is a concise and practical guide to introduce equipment operators, assembly workers, and other frontline employe...
Human Development Report 2007/2008
This year's Human Development Report explains why we have less than a decade to change course and start living within our global carbon budget, and how climate change will create long-run low human development traps, pushing vulnerable people into...
Human Development Report 2006
Human Development Report 2006
Att Leva Som Vaken - Sinnesrobönen Om Acceptans
I denna bok kommer vi utforska kraften i sinnesrobönen och hur acceptans kan vara nyckeln till att uppnå inre frid. Genom att fördjupa vår förståelse för sinnesrobönen och dess koppling till acceptans kommer vi upptäcka det som hjälper oss att navigera genom livets utmaningar. Eventuellt hittar vi känslan av harmoni. Du kommer finna grunderna för ordning och att släppa taget. Hur du kan öppna upp för acceptans. Att med öppenhet samt medvetenhet omfamna livets situationer till varaktig acceptans och sinnesro. Hur förbindelsen med oss själva ser ut. Låt oss fortsätta att odla och utforska denna väg mot inre frid.
2022 Special Report on Human Security
The report finds a development conundrum. Despite people on average living longer, healthier, and wealthier lives, these advances have not succeeded in increasing people's sense of security. This is true for countries right across the development ...
