About Improvement Tools Qld
Improvement Tools.com is a leading supplier of Books - DVD's - Training Kits - Facilitator guides and participant workbooks for use in industry by Lean and Six Sigma practitioners, and training organisationsthroughout Australia and New Zealand.
We also provide technical books and DVD's for trade and engineering training to tertiary education institutes and training providers.
Improvement Tools.com is the Australasian distributor for ENNA (5S and quick changeover solution packages), The Lean Store (books and resource for Lean Manufacturing, Jobshop, Office and Healthcare), GoalQPC (Pocket books for Lean, Six Sigma and ISO9000 programs), Society of Manufacturing Engineers (Lean and Manufacturing process DVD's and books), Industrial Press (Process improvement related books).
Improvement Tools.com is based in Brisbane, Australia and is a member of The Improve Group of companies - Australasia's leading Competitive Manufacturing training organisation.
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While lean is a popular term on the shop floor, this video will show you a company that didn't stop there.
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Manufacturing and service related businesses are heavily dependent on office and administrative processes, which can add up to 60 percent to all the costs associated with meeting customer demand. Applying lean techniques to the office must begin with a new definition of waste, backed by a set of techniques designed to eliminate waste and streamline nonvalue-adding activities.
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2006 SHINGO PRIZE for EXCELLENCE in MANUFACTURING RESEARCHLean production has been proven unbeatable in organizing production operations, yet the majority of attempts to implement lean end in disappointing results. The critical factor so often overlooked is that lean implementation requires day-to-day, hour-by-hour management practices and skills that leaders in conventional batch-and-queue environments are neither familiar nor comfortable with.
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Permanently changing the attitudes of employees is a difficult task. What might be considered a lean operation one day could slide back into the old ways of doing things overnight. The only way to truly build a lean culture is to fundamentally change the workplace culture and get buy in from every employee at all levels of the organization.
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Through the successful application of Lean in the job shops, a group of world-class plants decided to share their world-class best practices in the Running Lean series of workbooks. BackStreet Lean is the flagship of this series and provides the foundation in which all job shops and small manufactures should take notice.
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Part of the award-winning Manufacturing Insights Video Series, this program uncovers the innovations that are expanding this process beyond robotic resistance spot welding and arc welding. We examine how more high-volume manufacturers of vehicle structures are using laser and hybrid welding to make fast, reliable welds.
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Permanently changing the attitudes of employees is a difficult task. What might be considered a lean operation one day could slide back into the old ways of doing things overnight. The only way to truly build a lean culture is to fundamentally change the workplace culture and get buy in from every employee at all levels of the organization.
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In commemoration of the 125th anniversary of the "Machinery's Handbook," this is the Collectors Edition Replica of the original first edition, published January, 1914. Leather bound, 4-5/8 x 7, 1st edition collectable.
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What is Lean?Pure and simple, lean is reducing the time from customer order to manufacturing by eliminating non-value-added waste in the production stream. The ideal of a lean system is one-piece flow, because a lean manufacturer is continuously improving.
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Good management of inventory enables companies to improve their customer service, cash flow and profitability. 'Best Practice in Inventory Management' outlines the basic techniques, how and where to apply them, and provides advice to ensure they work to produce the desired effect in practice.
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