Modern Approaches to Manufacturing Improvement: The Shingo System Book

Publisher's Foreword
1. Editor's Introduction: Shigeo Shingo's Contributions to Manufacturing
2. Author's Introduction: Fundamental Flaws in European and American Production Philosophies

SECTION ONE: Improvement
Introduction
3. Basic Concepts for Improving Production System
4. Stage One: Problem Identification
5. Stage Two: Basic Approaches to Improvement
(I) Understand the Status Quo
6. Basic Approaches to Improvement
(II) The Pursuit of Goals
7. Basic Approaches to Improvement
(III) Better Means
8. Stage Three: Making Plans for Improvement
9. Stage Four: Translating Improvement Plans into Reality
10. Understanding and Conviction
11. The Force of Habit

SECTION TWO: Zero Quality Control: Source Inspection and the Poka-Yoke System
Introduction
12. Inspections
13. Approaching the Zero QC Method
14. More on Inspection Systems
15. Using Poka-Yoke Systems

SECTION THREE: A Revolution in Manufacturing: The SMED System
Introduction
16. Introduction to SMED
17. Setup Operations in the Past
18. Fundamentals of SMED
19. Techniques for Applying SMED
20. Applying SMED to Internal Operations
21. Basic Examples of SMED
22. Effects of SMED

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