Competitive Manufacturing:
Proven Strategies and Techniques That Will Allow Your Organization To Compete In The Global Economy
Random House / Xlibris Publishers 171 pages
Available in Hard Cover $31.00
Soft Cover $21.00
This is the first book by Thomas J. Sowell that comprises The Manufacturing Efficiency Series. It explains how to banish waste, reduce inventory, improve material flow, eliminate human error, determine scheduling capacity, establish equipment maintenance programs, time and cost management, and many other cost reduction activities. Written without technical babble for the busy manager, it demystifies the various techniques that can be used to improve productivity and reduce costs on the manufacturing production floor.
The book consist of 11 Chapters and 16 Diagrams that will allow you to develop strategies for long term continuous improvement plans and provide solutions to your manufacturing problems.
Competitive Manufacturing is a book that walks you through the important techniques that every manager should be implementing in order to sustain profitable manufacturing operations and compete in the global marketplace. Included are examples to implement the techniques, and the results of their impact on the bottom line.
"Tom Sowell has a unique blend of industrial engineering and management expertise that has allowed him to write a book that should be read by all manufacturing managers who are responsible for productivity."
Frank Harwich
Manufacturing Manager
Gillette Company
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Strategies to Achieve Managerial Competitiveness
Random House / Xlibris Publishers 163 pages
Available in Hard Cover $ 31.00
The second book by Thomas J. Sowell that comprises The Manufacturing Efficiency Series. It is filled with practical resources of information for any manufacturing organization that wants to obtain a competitive market advantage.
The strategic management process is the focus of this book. It reviews why strategy formation can be so elusive and difficult to grasp. Dimensions of strategy, analytical process, behavioral approaches, and patterns of past action are just a few of the topics examined.
You can not just rely on past strategies that are rooted in your organization to lead you to success in today's networked market. Executive managers are responsible for the development and effective implementation of management strategy. To navigate the global marketplace, senior managers need to know how to plan the most efficient use of material resources, as well as manage more complicated global networks to optimize service and quality.
Strategic Manufacturing Management consists of 13 Chapters and includes 33 Illustrations. Chapter treatments include the strategy formation process, functional strategy, business level strategy, corporate level strategy, and horizontal strategies. Also included are discussions of vertical integration, acquisition and restructuring strategies, leverage buyouts, structure and control, corporate innovation and much more.
" Tom Sowell has identified and presented some remarkable strategies and methods to lead manufacturing organizations into the competitive global marketplace. Overcoming the obvious hurdles and roadblocks when developing strategy can be challenging for any management team, but he explains in detail how to move forward."
Michael Harris
V.P. of Manufacturing
Tyco international
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Coming Soon!
The Foreign Manufacturing Paradigm
Powerful Techniques for Successful Implementation
The is the third book that will be included in The Manufacturing Efficiency Series and will available for purchase in January, 2010
This powerful book will explain the philosophies and techniques that foreign manufacturers are using to compete in the global economy, and why many domestic companies are attempting to become lean.
It contains In-depth explanations of how to successfully implement Lean Manufacturing techniques and can be used as a valuable resource guide for managers at all levels. It will consist of 13 Chapters and 22 Figures that will provide examples of various techniques such as Value Stream Mapping, Process Flow, Kanban and Pull Systems, Standardization, Supplier Partnerships, Problem Solving, The A3 Report, Controlling the Change. and so much more.
Hard cover for $34.00 plus $3.00 Shipping & Handling.
Coming Soon!
The New Drivers of Economic Wealth
How Energy and Manufacturing Technologies Will Create Wealth
This is the fourth book that is included in "The Manufacturing Efficiency Series" and will be available for purchase in May 2010
Companies will focus on the environment because they can save money by using less energy and fewer raw materials. Nations around the globe are taking an increasingly international view of controlling energy costs. Many changes will be forced by governments at all levels. The manufacturing sector will be prepared and have the technology to provide the necessary means to produce energy efficient products.
This book will consist of 200 pages and 13 Chapters. It will explain in detail how and why the next economic boom will be advanced by the emergence of energy technologies, and the important role that manufacturing industries will contribute when making evolving products.
Hard cover for $ 35.00 plus 3.00 Shipping & Handling
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