According to W. Edwards Deming, American companies require nothing less than a transformation of management style and of governmental relations with industry. In Out of the Crisis, originally published in 1982, Deming offers a theory of management based on his famous 14 Points for Management. Management's failure to plan for the future, he claims, brings about loss of market, which brings about loss of jobs. Management must be judged not only by the quarterly dividend, but by innovative plans to stay in business, protect investment, ensure future dividends, and provide more jobs through improved product and service. In simple, direct language, he explains the principles of management transformation and how to apply them.

Out of the Crisis

* Starting from Need* Evolution of the Toyota Production System* Further Development* Genealogy of the Toyota Production System* The True Intention of the Ford System* Surviving the Low-Growth Period

Toyota production system : beyond large-scale production

Rapid advances in industrialisation and informatisation methods have spurred tremendous progress in developing the next generation of manufacturing technology. Today, we are on the cusp of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. In 2013, amongst one of 10 ‘Future Projects’ identified by the German government as part of its High-Tech Strategy 2020 Action Plan, the Industry 4.0 project is considered to be a major endeavour for Germany to establish itself as a leader of integrated industry. In 2014, China’s State Council unveiled their ten-year national plan, Made-in-China 2025, which was designed to transform China from the world’s workshop into a world manufacturing power. Made-in-China 2025 is an initiative to comprehensively upgrade China’s industry including the manufacturing sector. In Industry 4.0 and Made-in-China 2025, many applications require a combination of recently emerging new technologies, which is giving rise to the emergence of Industry 4.0. Such technologies originate from different disciplines ...

Industry 4.0: state of the art and future trends

House of Quality

Kaizen: The key to Japan‚s competitive success

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A decomposition approach for manufacturing system design

Manufacturing System Design

In this paper, recent developments on the Internet of Things (IoT) and its applications are surveyed, and the impact of newly developed Big Data (BD) on manufacturing information systems is especia...

Big data analytics with applications

Systematic design and evaluation of segmented production system structures is the subject of this paper. Recently emerged paradigms of Lean Management and Business Process Re-engineering call for a...

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The application of axiomatic design and lean management principles in the scope of production system segmentation

TRIZ is a Russian acronym for the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving, which is a little-known algorithmic system for solving engineering problems. It has been developed by Altshuller and colleagues for over 50 years in the former Soviet Union (he started his work on an algorithm for the solution of inventive problems in 1946). Axiomatic Design has been developed by Suh and colleagues at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA for about 20 years (their first paper was published in 1978; Suh et al. (1978)). Both theories have lately gained popularity due to the need for a science-based design methodology. Interestingly, many concepts of the two design theories seem to be in coincidence, even though they have been developed quite independently for a long time. In this paper, several concepts of TRIZ are reviewed from the standpoint of Axiomatic Design. The concept of ideality, the concept of conflicts (or contradictions) and the Sufield model of TRIZ are studied and explained using the Axiomatic De...

David S. Cochran

Papers

A decomposition approach for manufacturing system design

Manufacturing System Design

Big data analytics with applications

The application of axiomatic design and lean management principles in the scope of production system segmentation

Reviewing TRIZ from the perspective of Axiomatic Design