| View Larger Image | All I Need to Know About Manufacturing I Learned in Joe's Garage: World Class Manufacturing Made Simple | Paperbackby William B. Miller (Author), Vicki L. Schenk. (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Bayrock Press | | Edition: | Revisedth Edition | | Page Count: | 104 Pages | | Publication Date: | August 31, 2004 | | Sales Rank: | 272,599nd |
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Product Description
ALL I NEED TO KNOW ABOUT MANUFACTURING I LEARNED IN JOE S GARAGE explains basic principles of customer focused, high quality, low cost, on-time business management. This international bestseller is endorsed by reviewers from Business Week and other publications, and by numerous business and educational leaders. ALL I NEED TO KNOW ABOUT MANUFACTURING I LEARNED IN JOE S GARAGE is used by thousands of companies, large and small throughout the world, to improve profitability, performance, and employee satisfaction. The book uses a lighthearted short story that explains in easily understandable terms the concepts and techniques of 21st-century business management. It illustrates clearly how to forge a strategy for the future that will lead to outstanding personal and professional achievement. ...JOE'S GARAGE is a classic teaching fable valuable in all business functions. It is essential reading for anybody who wishes to understand how to succeed in today s environment of increasingly tough global competition. An annotated reading list and comprehensive glossary are provided. Countless business leaders, educators, and publications agree that ...JOE's GARAGE is simply the best, and most cost-effective, roadmap for attainment of world class results. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 20 reviews)
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Informative and concise by Nicholas Yax (Big Rapids, MI USA)  4 Stars
August 10, 2008
This book is required for two of the courses in my Manufacturing Engineering program. It was not what I expected, but was written in a short story like format, which made it a much easier read. Not a definitive guide, but gets across several key points in an easy to understand format. Recommended for anyone with a casual interest in the subject, but not for someone looking for an in-depth look. Only takes about 90 minutes to read through, but to really pick everything up may take 2 or 3 reads.
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Baiscs of Lean Manufacturing by Robert Freeman (USA)  5 Stars
June 18, 2008
Provides the basics of lean manufacturing in a way that causes you to want to learn more and apply what is learned.
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Falls short of being World Class by Michael Brown (FL)  3 Stars
October 20, 2007
This is a book that is being passed around work. A very simplistic book an introductory look at 2 different ways of looking at and doing a manufacturing process. I don't know if I would recomend this book except if you wanted a quick and fast look at the two different ways. The major draw back is that it doesn't look at the problem areas of the other way. Basically the "American" way and the "Japanese" way of manufacturing.
I guess I expected more after reading all the glowing reviews in the front of the book. It is an ok book but not great.
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Heere we go again... by EPA316  2 Stars
January 14, 2007
Another book fawning all over Toyota and the Japanese as being the absolute masters of production. No one but them can possibly produce anything properly. Oh, wait, did this book mention that it was AMERICANS who showed the Japanese modern production methods immediately after WWII? By golly, they left out that little detail.. you probably don't hear that too much, but look it up if you don't believe me. For all of the 1950's and most of the 1960's, "Made in Japan" was not a good thing to see on a product. Only in the past 30 years have they gotten good. I won't deny that American companies have gotten sloppy, and they need a cold hard slap to wake them up. But, I think that some of these books go a little overboard heaping praise on Japanese methods.
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Best Primer on Lean Manufacturing by Vaughn D. Williams (Los Angeles, CA) 5 Stars
January 13, 2007
This easy to read book outlines all the concepts of lean manufacturing in an entertaining and understandable manner. I make it required reading for all my Manufacturing Engineers, Department Managers and Supervisors.
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