Quick Response Manufacturing
Quick Response Manufacturing

Author: Rajan Suri

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2020-10-28

Total Pages: 575

ISBN-13: 1482278103

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Developed by the author and now being employed by a number of businesses, Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM) is an expansion of time-based competition, aimed at a single target with the goal of reducing lead times. The key difference between QRM and other time-based programs is that QRM covers an entire organization, from the shop floor to the office, to sales and beyond. Providing guidelines for establishing a QRM enterprise, this volume builds upon kaizen, TQM, TPM, and other practice to help organizations streamline all functions of their operation. It shows how to quickly introduce products, along with ways to rethink materials and production management.

Time to Market
Time to Market

Author: Cyril Charney

Publisher: Society of Manufacturing Engineers

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780872633964

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A key manufacturing issue is speed strategy how to bring new products to market faster while maintaining quality and cost effectiveness. Time to Market: Reducing Product Lead Time is a book that managers at all levels will want to read. It will inform you of the importance of speed to your organization, share examples of how leading companies improved their customer responsiveness and brought new products to market faster, and provide evaluation tools you can use to implement key techniques within your own organization.

EBOOK: The Research Student's Guide to Success
EBOOK: The Research Student's Guide to Success

Author: Pat Cryer

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

Published: 2006-09-16

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0335229638

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A must read for all research students! “The core material in Professor Cryer’s previous editions is classic. I welcome this new edition setting it into current contexts.” – PhD supervisor “When I was doing my own PhD, Pat Cryer’s book was my constant reference companion. Now I am recommending her latest edition to my own students.” – PhD supervisor Insightful, wide-ranging and accessible, this is an invaluable tool for postgraduate research students and for students at all levels working on research projects, irrespective of their field of study. This edition has been thoroughly revised to accommodate the changes in postgraduate education over recent years. Additional material and new emphases take into account: the QAA Code of Practice for Postgraduate Research Programmes recommendations of the Roberts Review the needs of the growing number of ‘overseas’ research students employment issues (including undergraduate teaching) the Internet as a resource for research. There are new chapters on: developing the research proposal succeeding as an ‘overseas’ research student ethics in research personal development planning (PDP)

Responding to Student Expectations
Responding to Student Expectations

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2002-09-03

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9264176225

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Today’s university students are drawn from a highly diverse set of backgrounds. Students appear in various guises as citizens, consumers, and clients. They are fitting university study around increasingly busy lives, often alongside paid employment ...