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Manufacturing Handbook of Best Practices: An Innovation, Productivity, and Quality Focus gives you a working knowledge of today's cutting edge tools - preparing you for the way you will be doing your job tomorrow. With contributions from seasoned manufacturing experts, the book provides a single-source reference to what's currently happening in modern manufacturing facilities. It covers:

• Agile Enterprise and Lean Manufacturing
  
• Six Sigma-Introduction and Six Sigma-Design for Manufacturing and Assembly/ Design for Six Sigma (DFMA/DFSS)
  
• ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14000
  
• Process Analysis and Statistical Quality Control/Statistical Process Control (SQC/SPC)
  
• Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD)
  
• Theory of Constraints/Constraints Management (TOC/CM) and Theory of Innovative Problem Solving (TIPS/TRIZ)
  
• Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing Controls Integration
  
• Design of Experiments (DOE) and Robust Design
  
• Measurement Systems Analysis and much more
  Organized so that the content is easy to find and easy to understand, Manufacturing Handbook of Best Practices: An Innovation, Productivity, and Quality Focus presents an endless supply of the tools and techniques available to the manufacturing professional who wishes to be well-informed. Nowhere else will you find all these modern manufacturing methods covered the way they are in this comprehensive resource.