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Quick Response Manufacturing:
A Companywide Approach to Reducing Lead Times
by Rajan Suri; Productivity Press, 1998
Although "lean" is all the rage right now, lean manufacturing is based on the JIT strategy perfected by Toyota 30 years ago. Instead of adopting 30-year-old strategies to compete in today's dynamic market, this definitive volume on the subject of Quick Response Manufacturing demonstrates how a small but growing number of companies in the U.S. Midwest are leapfrogging their lean competitors. QRM strategy is particularly suited to reducing lead times for low-volume, high-mix or custom-engineered products.
Included are case studies of seven companies -- including John Deere, Ingersoll and Trek Bicycle -- that successfully use QRM as well as 15 specific steps to implement your own successful QRM program; hundreds of tools and examples to show you how QRM succeeds; and discussion on cells, teams and the need for employee empowerment.
"This book is more than a manufacturing book, it is a book that defines the strategy that will win the next competitive war in the business world: response time."
Bill Butterfield, Supplier DevelopmentDeere & Co.
To order up to four copies for a U.S. or Canadian shipping address, call (608) 262-4709, or print an order form (PDF) and fax it to (608) 265-4017, or send it with a check/money order/P.O. (payable to the University of Wisconsin) to:
Center for Quick Response Manufacturing
3160 Engineering Centers Building
1550 Engineering Drive
Madison, WI 53706
For five or more volumes or for shipping addresses outside of the continental United States, please contact Productivity Press (www.productivitypress.com) or your bookseller of choice.
