Reducing process costs with lean, six sigma, and value engineering techniques
A company with effective cost reduction activities in place will be better positioned to adapt to shifting economic conditions. In fact, it can make the difference between organizations that thrive and those that simply survive during times of economic uncertainty. Reducing Process Costs with Lean, Six Sigma, and Value Engineering Techniques covers the methods and techniques currently available for lowering the costs of products, processes, and services. Describing why cost reductions can be ju…
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- Full title :Reducing process costs with lean, six sigma, and value engineering techniques / Kim H. Pries, Jon M. Quigley.
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A company with effective cost reduction activities in place will be better positioned to adapt to shifting economic conditions. In fact, it can make the difference between organizations that thrive and those that simply survive during times of economic uncertainty. Reducing Process Costs with Lean, Six Sigma, and Value Engineering Techniques covers the methods and techniques currently available for lowering the costs of products, processes, and services. Describing why cost reductions can be just as powerful as revenue increases, the book arms readers with the.
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- Publication Date:©2013.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):CRC Press
- Place of Publication:Boca Raton, FL
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2013.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xxxv, 328 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781466597624, 1466597623, 9781439887264, 1439887268
- oclc:ocn827235391
- LC Classification:HD47.3
- Dewey Decimal:658.15/52
Table of Contents
Ch. 1. Introduction -- ch. 2. Saving money with homegrown ideas -- ch. 3. Arbitrary cost down approach -- ch. 4. The Isuzu approach to teardowns -- ch. 5. The DoD approach -- ch. 6. Classical value analysis/value engineering techniques -- ch. 7. Classical techniques -- ch. 8. Saving money with six sigma projects -- ch. 9. Saving money with lean manufacturing -- ch. 10. Saving money with optimization -- ch. 11. Regaining money with cost recovery -- ch. 12. Other methods -- ch. 13. Finding cost reductions -- ch. 14. When cost improvement goes wrong.
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