Operational Excellence A Concise Guide to Basic Concepts and Their Application /

As industrial companies are placing a higher focus on operations, this book comes at the right time with a compilation of basic concepts of Operational Excellence and their application. Operational excellence allows companies to recover from reductions in gross margins and low profitability, which l...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Issar, Gilad (Author), Navon, Liat Ramati (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:Management for Professionals,
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Assurance of Supply (AOS)
  • Cost of Goods (COGs)
  • Decision Support Systems (DSS)
  • Drum, Buffer, Rope and Days of Inventory (DOI) Control
  • Emails (the LEAN Version)
  • Empowerment
  • Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP).-Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA)
  • Gross Margin (GM)
  • Hiring Practices for Operations
  • Human Resources (HR)
  • Innovation in the Operations
  • Interfaces and Their Improvement in Operations
  • Just in Time (JIT)
  • Kan Ban
  • Key Performances Indicators (KPI)
  • LEAN Operations
  • Leadership in the Operations
  • Meetings and LEAN Decision Making
  • Manufacturing Overhead (MOH) and Departmental Expense Control
  • Manufacturing Excellence in Daily Life
  • New Product Introduction (NPI)
  • One on One Meeting
  • Personal Development
  • People Motivation, Productivity and Satisfaction
  • Quality
  • Return on Investment (ROI) Calculations and CAPEX Decisions
  • Safety
  • Supply Chain and Win-Win Relations with the Suppliers
  • Services and Customer Assurance
  • Team Work and its Development
  • Theory of Constraint (TOC)
  • Variability - Managing the Variability in Operations
  • Voice of the Employee
  • Yield, Improvement and Sustaining High Yield
  • Where, When and How We Can Apply the Operational Excellence Concise Guide Methods?.