Preventive Maintenance Made Simple

Kanban Made Simple is the first simple "how-to" guide for incorporating the just-in-time ingenuity of the Kanban system into any manufacturing environment. From the Japanese word for "visual record", the technique dictates that suppliers deliver parts to the warehouse only as they are needed, reducing storage in the production area. Using before-and-after case studies, this easy-to-follow guide contains information on establishing project goals, forming a Kanban team, and designing the process.

Can you get rapid results and still be effective? Where do you begin and what techniques should you use? What have others done and what were their lessons learned? Andrew Muras and Glenn Goodnight answer these questions and many more based on years of experience in implementing and teaching at both commercial and government organizations. Filled with case studies, this book highlights techniques that are effective in the real world. Whether practitioner, manager or executive, youre sure to gain the insights needed for program success. I find their approach to foundational aspects both structurally sound and engagingand critical for sustaining cost and quality performance improvements. Dr. Penny Weller, Hackett Group FastTrack is easy to use, easy to understand, and easy to communicate. Billie Gayle Lewis, LSS Blackbelt Ive been working with Andrew and Glenn for many years their workshops and trainings are typically our best attended and highest rated events. Guy Clayton, Director, IQPC Table of Contents Chapter 1: The FastTrack Approach for Rapid, Cost Effective Implementations Chapter 2: Shared Services Chapter 3: Chargebacks, Service Level Agreements and Service Catalogues Chapter 4: Information Technology Chapter 5: Product & Customer Profitability Chapter 6: Capacity Analysis Chapter 7: Performance Management, Metrics and Scorecards Chapter 8: Enterprise Wide Implementations Chapter 9: Benchmarking Chapter 10: Outsourcing Chapter 11: Government Chapter 12: Business Transformation: Linking ABC/M with Lean and Six Sigma

Successfully start your own profitable business Starting your own business is an American Dream. But raising money requires a polished business plan that sells financial backers on your idea. The Perfect Business Plan Made Simple approaches the business plan as a sales document that will persuade bankers and venture capitalists to invest in your new or growing enterprise. Featuring examples and detailed sample plans, this updated edition addresses legal concerns and special issues unique to internet-based businesses. Detailed writing instructions, overviews of the funding process, and explanations of why certain arguments are crucial make this guide invaluable to both novices and experienced entrepreneurs. Important topics include: • your business’s mission and strategy • the written plan and the role of presentations • the target audience principle • making financial projections • how to make and present a marketing plan • special considerations for service businesses • contingencies–what you’ll do if things go wrong • legal and ownership issues • dot-com businesses • a self-test to see if you’re cut out to be an entrepreneur Look for these Made Simple Books: Accounting Made Simple Arithmetic Made Simple Astronomy Made Simple Biology Made Simple Bookkeeping Made Simple Business Letters Made Simple Chemistry Made Simple Computer Science Made Simple Earth Science Made Simple English Made Simple French Made Simple German Made Simple Inglés Hecho Fácil Investing Made Simple Italian Made Simple Keyboarding Made Simple Latin Made Simple Learning English Made Simple Mathematics Made Simple Philosophy Made Simple Physics Made Simple Psychology Made Simple Sign Language Made Simple Spanish Made Simple Spelling Made Simple Statistics Made Simple Your Small Business Made Simple

Proven strategies for Joint Commission survey readiness This updated edition of our annual best-seller includes new tools and case studies of successful tracers from facilities around the country. Through a clear and concise breakdown of standards in an easy-to-understand mock survey checklist format, survey committee leaders will be able to easily delegate the right forms to the right people on their committees Each checklist is downloadable and can be customized to fit the specific needs of your facility. What's new in this year's edition * Mock tracer tools that you can customize and implement at your facility * Case studies of successful tracers used by hospitals around the country * Sections on tracer methodology and changes to The Joint Commission's leadership and medical staff standards * Modified scoring and new implementation benchmarks for the National Patient Safety Goals * Policies and procedures for each standard, including the required elements of each * Downloadable tools and forms that you can easily distribute to different departments Benefits * Identify and address compliance weak spots in time for a survey visit * Train staff on their roles in a survey, and gauge your facility's level of preparedness * Embrace the first-hand experience of the authors, who have put together tracers in hospitals * Organize your department with survey simulations and effective checklists

The Preventive Maintenance Monthly is an official publication of the Army, providing information for all soldiers assigned to combat and combat duties. The magazine covers issues concerning maintenance, maintenance procedures and supply problems.

The book deals with the techniques of handling situations which could crop up at home as well as in the international arena while negotiating business . . . With globalization, it marks a new age for the Indian industry. For players and observers alike in this age, the book will serve as a practical guide. Business World Almost all sections of the book carry examples and problems to help the reader hone his skills in the art of negotiation. . . This book, simple and easy to read, yet laden with intellectually stimulating facts and guidelines, holds the key to successful negotiation. The Economic TimesAlmost all transactions barring acts of pure altruism involve varying degrees of give and take, otherwise known as the fine art of negotiating. This book explains how all parties to a negotiation could be winners. Negotiators need to understand that it is not necessary that only one party wins; if they will only take the trouble to find out what the other party really wants, and then go about designing a package that gives it to them, they can gain what they themselves want from the process. It is this careful peeling away of the unwanted elements that leads to successful negotiation. This book contains all the secrets used by canny negotiators to achieve their objectives. Negotiation is a process, not an event that can be learnt. All the steps that lead to mutually satisfying outcomes are described here: creating the climate, identifying interests, and selecting BATNA (Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement) outcomes that you will go through in any negotiation. Studded with many examples, valuable tips from great negotiators, and many interesting cases, this book allows the reader to hone his skills while mastering the concepts involved in this crucial area of management. With practice, you will gain skill at facilitating each step of the process, and as your skill increases, you'll discover that negotiating can be fun.

A “captivating…constructive” (Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again) guide to breaking free from the thoughts, habits, jobs, relationships, and even business models that prevent us from achieving our full potential. Almost everyone feels stuck in some way. Whether you’re muddling through a midlife crisis, wrestling with writer’s block, trapped in a thankless job, or trying to remedy a fraying friendship, the resulting emotion is usually a mix of anxiety, uncertainty, fear, anger, and numbness. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Anatomy of a Breakthrough is the “deeply researched and compelling” (Cal Newport, New York Times bestselling author of Digital Minimalism) roadmap we all need to escape our inertia and flourish in the face of friction. Adam Alter has spent the past two decades studying how people become stuck and how they free themselves to thrive. Here, he reveals the formula he and other researchers have uncovered. The solution rests on a process that he calls a friction audit—a systematic procedure that uncovers why a person or organization is stuck, and then suggests a path to progress. The friction audit states that people and organizations get unstuck when they overcome three sources of friction: HEART (unhelpful emotions); HEAD (unhelpful patterns of thought); and HABIT (unhelpful behaviors). Despite the ubiquity of friction, there are many great “unstickers” hidden in plain sight among us and Alter shines a light on some exceptional stories to share their valuable lessons with us. He tells us about the sub-elite swimmer who unstuck himself twice to win two Olympic gold medals, the actor who faced countless rejections before gaining worldwide fame, the renowned painter who became paralyzed and had to relearn to paint with a brush strapped to his wrist, and Alter’s own story of getting unstuck from a college degree that made him deeply unhappy. Artfully weaving together scientific studies, anecdotes, and interviews, Alter teaches us that getting stuck is a feature rather than a glitch on the road to thriving, but with the right tweaks and corrections, we can reach even our loftiest targets.