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Manufacturing excellence : renewal and rebirth
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For years, automotive supplier GAFFER has been able to survive using its old management and production practices. But times have been changing and GAFFER's future looks bleak. Jake is a retired pro...
For years, automotive supplier GAFFER has been able to survive using its old management and production practices. But times have been changing and GAFFER's future looks bleak. Jake is a retired production planner, reflecting on his long history with the GAFFER factory and what is currently happening. He wonders how things might change as their main customer wants a completely new part to be not only produced, but also designed at GAFFER. Just when the old management is about to mess up the relationship with the customer, there is a new factory manager. He starts turning the factory around and Jake shares all of the juicy stories with his coffee mate, Ben.
Details
- Creator
- Kenneth N. McKay and Vincent C.S. Wiers
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- New York, [New York] (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : Momentum Press, 2015
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 134 pages) : illustrations
- ISBNs
- 9781606508527, 1606508520, 1606508512
- OCLC
- ocn932525901, ocn940512438
- Includes index.
- Introducing Ben -- Ben and Jake -- Strategy -- The instrument cluster -- Fear -- Mr. Big intervenes -- The contract -- Culture shock -- The grim reaper -- The new boss -- The good, the bad, and the ugly -- Shared fate -- What makes a line a good line? -- Setting examples -- See the light -- Teaching the basics -- The new incentive scheme -- Breaking the eggs to get an omelet -- Promotions and shutdowns -- Another contract -- Back at the factory -- Some last thoughts -- Teamwork -- Waste and reclamation -- Mentoring -- Cast, in alphabetical order -- Index