Manufacturers Books

The best I've seen, they could have put some of the over seas gun powder to shell chart in it but this works for me. I've the loads I need to shoot all day, I shoot Trap and Skeet.
thank You, John Taylor,
Bubba

The book is generally good. interesting Railway pictures from the 1970's in the St. Louis, MO metropolitan area. I worked for Amtrak at Union Station during 1974-1976 and then at Manufacturers Railway for many years. The Amtrak section features F-40 locomotives only. None of the old E-8's and none of the two different style Turbo-Trains that serviced St. Louis in the Mid 1970's. Some of the captions for the pictures of those Railways are in error. A picture of the Manufacturer's Engine House is labeled as a warehouse and the description of the work done there applies partially to work done at St. Louis Refrigerator Co. The Alton and Southern, another switching railroad, should have been included in the section with the Terminal Railroad and Manufacturers R.R. but is with the "Major Railroads" Page 57 is more of a history lesson than a cameo of the Illinois Traction Railroad in the 1970's.
But "nit picking" aside, the pictures are good and depict an era of St. Louis rail history when downsizing and merging were the rule of the day. There are several b/w shots of "fallen flag" railways including Missouri Pacific, GM&O, Frisco, MKT and others.

Great book, showing a variety of early German manufacturers!

This is an excelent book for manufacturing organizations in how to have a competitive advantage based on customer service. It all starts understanding customer needs. Continues explaining how to handle private labels, information technology, direct product profitability, space managment, what are the key questions to know about each customer and finally, and where you get the best advice, examples of real benefits valued by retailers. Will definetively help you define your best trade organization after understanding the basic trade marketing tasks and building customers into planning and operations. Key questions: What are our retailers goals and strategies?. What is the competitive positioning of the retailing?. What are their SWOT? What brands should we produce and for whom?. How important is private label an important strategy of our retailers?. Do we know their direct product cost (warehouse, handling and shelf space)?. Do we know ther direct product profitability to give them advice on space managment? What they whant from us? What do they think of us?. Key concepts: EPOS (Electronic point of sale), EFTOPS (Electronic funds transfer at point of sale), EDI (Electronic data interchange)TRADANET (an electronic mailbox), DPP (direct product profitability),DPC (Direct product cost),DPPROI (Direct product profitability return on inventory), NAM (National account managers). Don't get behain other competitors, get your competitive advantage based on customer service!

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ful of data ,as what the title means.add more japanese top models may attract more customers to enjoy the differ in technologies within the east and the west.some comment from the public could help,rather that all proffesionnal did all jobs.

if you want to learn about MRP this is the book but do not call it lean manufacturing implementation because it is everything but a lean manufacturing implementation manual

So call "LEAN Manufacturing Implementation" title is very appealing. Very bad decision buying this book. I have several other books on the subject. From Mr. Pyzdek to Womack (warranted satisfacton with this guy's book) and some other japanese authors on the subject. I paid $6.00 for the book "The machine that changed the world" I learned more reading this book. This book is highly priced. Shame on APICS backing up this kinda of got-to-write-a-book authors. I hope the author could read this comentary and give me money back. This book is just the product of somebody not enought professional to accept HE CAN'T WRITE A BOOK ON THE SUBJECT. Very repetitive, boring. Anyways...!!!

This treatment of Lean Manufacturing is written from the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS) viewpoint. The center of the manufacturing world for the production control dept. is the MRP software which makes this viewpoint on Lean interesting, especially since two of the major advantages of implementing Lean is to reduce inventories and to eliminate production control department overhead. The only requirements for MRP in a lean environment are long term raw material scheduling and finished product delivery scheduling.
Hobbs does not establish the roots of Lean (The Toyota Production System) nor does he use Japanese lean terms with the exeption of Kanban and Kaizen. Nor does he recognize the existence of the value stream map (VSM) choosing to use the process flow diagram (PFD) to define the manufacturing process. Thus Hobbs only defines process level manufacturing data and totally ignores the systems approach to lean Manufacturing. As a result the Lean Enterprise, total lead time, and how the manufacturing process relates to the whole value stream are not even adddressed. He is, however, quick to use total lead time in his so called 'Strategic Business Analysis'. Finally, the key concept of pull/flow production control is not fully compared to push/MRP production control. Herein lies the proof that pull/flow is superior.
This is the only treatment of lean manufacturing I have found that espouses providing for scrap and rework in the manufacturing process. There is no jidoka even mentioned.
Somehow the term 'MRP' shows up on almost every page. This book should be labeled 'In Defense of MRP'.
There is no bibliography - all original?

1) A lean practitioners publication 2/10
2) A lean managers publicaton 4/10
3) Clear thought/Organization 3/10
4) Information Content 2/10
5) New or original content 2/10
6) Topical relevance 2/10

This book gives a new insight about the PROCESS and shows some ways to optimally design it with minimum wastage. The concepts described here is not just limited to the manufacturing process but extends to any other business process. Consideration of the resources in Man , Machine , Workstation and Inventory sets a well-defined boundary of constraint for designing new production line.
Not only for the new line , few of the concepts of this book can be applied for optimization of the old production lines also.
As a whole this book is a good investment which can be used as guidelines for new line design and improvement of the old line.

It is very unusual when a consultant reveals their secrets to implementation concepts. Dennis Hobbs tells how to implement lean on a step by step basis. The secrets of kanban calculation in addition to line balancing are exposed. This book is a critical resource for companies interested in conducting their own lean implementations. Dennis provides detailed explanations and not just lean stories that fail to get to the real issues of how to implement the concepts.

I had been searching hard to find honest reviews of popular nutritional supplements. I learned far more from The NutritionalSupplements.com Bible than expected. The most helpful part was reading the hundreds of first hand experiences that honest, unbiased consumers have had while using popular diet, weight loss, and muscle building supplements. Plus, there are tons of reviews of just about every nutritional supplement on the market today. I now only buy a supplement after reading reviews of it in The NutritionalSupplements.com Bible. This way I know that it works before I try it and I am getting much better results.

Without a doubt this is the biggest piece of junk I have even bought.
Totally worthless info.
Presentation is a question and answer forum.
Junk.

The NutritionalSupplements.com Bible is an amazing resource that tells you the good and the bad about supplements through the experiences of people who actually use them. So much of the supplement information out there is thinly disguised sales pitches from companies trying to sell you a product, but this book is different. There are hundreds of reviews from real supplement users on everything from Creatine to Ephedra to St. John's Wort.

The book is organized alphabetically with dictionary-like headings at the top of every page, so finding the information you want is a breeze. You won't believe some of the horror stories people have had with supplements you can buy at any drug store. I can't tell you how much money I've saved by referring to The NutritionalSupplements.com Bible before buying a product. If you want to know if a supplement works as advertised, you need this book! I recommend it highly.

This book is definitely NOT worth the $. It has opinions of readers without concrete scientific facts, or even names to back up what they say. It is like being in a chat room. You really do not know what you are getting. I am angry as I blew $30 on a book that should be priced in the $9 range. My favorite supplement book was written by The EAS founder, Bill Phillips.

One has to assume when one utilitizes a volume clearly setting forth its intentions of representing facts that one can trust the accuracy of the information included. Why else would one use the source much less purchase it? I bought this book because I had acquired a pair of cufflinks on eBay . . . touted as having been manufactured by Tiffany & Co. whose marks I know well simply from personal experience. The mark was clearly not one of theirs, and a knowledgeable friend (a dealer in fine jewelry) recommended I buy it. I quickly found the precise mark from my cufflinks and identified the manufacturer. However, I happen to be related to the owners of another firm and swiftly searched for their name and mark. The information was erroneous. The authors had switched the name of the president of the firm (my long since departed uncle) to the name of the company itself. Anyone looking for this very prestigious (their pieces have become collector items) manufacterer would have searched in vain. How many other mistakes are contained in this volume? Can I trust the information I gleaned initially? Were this a source for brain surgeons, there would be an explosion of complaints. Does not accuracy apply to all fields? I think so.

This is a great ref book for Jewelry Companies that are long gone, their marks and company background. However it is missing some well known companies from the 50's and 60's but to it's credit there are also marks that ARE included that belong to little known companies. The layout could be improved as sometimes companies marked with a logo, and not the name, finding the logo means you have to search the whole book if you don't know who it was made by. That being said the book is a must have for all jewelry collectors as the info contained within is NOT the opinion of the author, it is taken from actual historical books, and vintage Trade guides etc.

If you collect jewelery fine or costume this book is a must. Those little marks that you need your 10X loupe for are deciphered! This is not an exhaustive list because there are new treasures found every day but it will really help the collector figure out just who made that lovely item! Get this one now.........

Panic! Alert! Paradigm shift! "E-shock" originates from that obnoxious time period when everyone with a mouth, pen or posterior spouted Darwinist warnings of extinction for any business that failed to embrace the Internet and its associated New Economy. "The new game in town means some of the traditional barriers are breaking down and new ones are taking their place," de Kare-Silver states. "Understand these new rules and win. Ignore them and die."

DIE!

"E-shock" is clearly intended to arouse Joe Businessman's survival instincts. For a college geography student like me, it fails to get the adrenaline pumping. Fortunately, it is a quick read. De Kare-Silver writes about modern consumer time poverty -- one of the reasons you're reading this may very well be that you're too busy and pressured to bother making it to the bookstore -- and the book is thus written for the person on the go. Its never ending bullets, lists and overviews would tidily transfer to a PowerPoint presentation. In fact, I think I would rather have received the book in such a form.

Without going into gruesome detail, "E-shock" is concerned with the implications of the e-commerce revolution for the retailer, manufacturer and business in general. The Internet has spawned a New Economy and with it come all sorts of changes that you'd better consider. You need to change your operations. You need to rethink your strategies. But don't worry; consultants such as De Kare-Silver are out there to help you.

You need to realize that E-commerce investments can actually be earnings diluting. You should forget PE ratios when evaluating an e-business. You should consider internet flotations as part of the formula for delivering shareholder value.

You should also do away with commas.

"E-shock" finds this form of punctuation antiquated in the context of the new business-writing environment. When I read sentences such as, "Bursting onto the scene in 1994 it has caused a major rethink on how to sell products and services to consumers," I can't go any further without penciling in a comma between '1994' and 'it.'

But I'm just a stodgy old dinosaur lumbering along shackled to the Old Punctuation. If I had an ounce of self-preservation, I would adapt and invest in the New Punctuation, which I suspect goes something like this:

1) Because they take up time and space do not bother with commas and in order to remain competitive you may have to do away with semicolons hyphens and 10% of your periods.

2) Not only is "e-" an acceptable prefix to any word, concept or phrase, it is the New Prefix. It is the e-new e-way of e-doing e-things so e-get e-with e-the e-program e-.

3) A major issue will be punctuation distribution. In a virtual sentence, how do you deliver your periods, semicolons and exclamation points to the sentence's consumer? You may have to try novel approaches such as starting sentences with ampersands or centralizing all of your paragraph's periods next to one word with a high demand, such as "the."

4) Some forms of punctuation will be easier to adapt to the virtual environment than others. A big factor is familiarity. Consumers will be quite willing to see periods, commas and question marks in their virtual sentences, but more obscure things like tildes (~) will seem less trustworthy to online readers.

5) Accept the fact that cannibalisation will occur. For example, semicolons may be used in many instances in which a period would suffice instead. You may not use as many periods as you used to, but that's simply part of the New Punctuation.

I hope you invest in this book so that you'll be more prepared for these sort of changes. As de Kare-Silver says, "It's a bit like staking out the ground for the future and the market recognises to survive ... [one must] do that and to do it now. Like the gold rush, there is only going to be so much territory, so ... [one must] stake out [one's] share."

Of course, the gold rush only lasted a few years. This book is already in its second edition and I wouldn't be e-shocked if it needs updating again soon.

In the book, E-Shock: The New Rules ¡V Internet Strategies for Retailers & Manufacturers, the author, Michael de Kare-Silver, not only presents a lot of e-commerce pioneer¡¦s examples, but also quotes data (from leading journals and newspapers) and interviews (from business executives and think tanks) to help answer those questions. As a whole, the book is not a theoretical but practical, up-to-date volume and, especially, will help retailers and manufactures answer whether their companies are ready for virtual selling and how to proceed opportunities for e-commerce.

De Kare-Silver acknowledges that forecasting future market development can never be an exact science, but he argues that he has been enormously encouraged in his conclusions and convictions by a number of people. In the first part of the book, de Kare-Silver cites a bunch of reports from newspapers and magazines (e.g. Business Week, Reuter News Service, etc), interviews of CEOs (e.g. Bill Gates) and research or report (e.g. A.C. Nielsen research) to support his assertions. For example, he quotes Gate¡¦s words: ¡§The internet is a tidal wave. It will wash over nearly all industries drowning those who don¡¦t learn to swim in its wave¡¨ (p. 40). Moreover, Jagadish Sheth, professor of marketing in Goizueta business school, indicates that ¡§the combination of technology sophistication, equipment power and ease of use plus the supporting infrastructure will make electronic purchasing widespread in the U.S. by the year 2005¡¨ (P. 42). Those consolidated assertions give de Kare-Silver a stronger ground to say that it¡¦s time to go shopping on line.

Also, de Kare-Silver believes, ¡§survival of the fittest.¡¨ Timing, keen observation and real-time decisions decide if you will be a winner or a loser in the future e-shopping competition. So he also gives the readers some innovative companies (e.g. 1-800-FLOWER, First Direct, Levi Strauss) that pioneered changes in the electronic selling arena. They have a history of innovation and they are learning on e-commerce at every step. He strongly recommends that it is important to be at the forefront as the internet develops. That is to say, you lose one minute, and you may lose forever in the e-shopping era.

Then, he tries to analyze the far-reaching impacts of the e-commerce revolution and provides essential survival rules for retailers and manufacturers. Facing up to the skyrocketing growth in online shopping, he argues that some of old business administration models are no longer applicable, and as a result, winners in the future need to learn new rules early and learn to play by them. The soaring growth in e-shopping has generated a new set of survival rules for retailers and manufacturers. De Kare-Silver tries to pinpoint some rules and strategies for those who are interested in e-shopping to abide by. Some of these new rules include ¡§be ready to cannibalize,¡¨ ¡§be prepared to become a multi-channel operator,¡¨ ¡§get on interactive TV,¡¨ ¡§think in terms of convenience, convenience, convenience,¡¨ ¡§create a sense of community service¡¨ and the like, is a blueprint for the retailers doing business in the 21st century. Indeed, he tells retailers and manufacturers how to seize the competitive edge in time to help their business.

De Kare-Silver highly recommends retailers and manufactures take ES (electronic shopping) TEST into account when propelling e-shopping. The ES TEST, which provides simple step approaches (including product characteristics, familiarity and confidence, and consumer attributes) will help the retailers and manufactures to evaluate products and services best suited for online selling. As De Kare-Silver put it, ¡§the marketplace is dynamic, things are changing rapidly¡K, those who watch their marketplaces carefully and evaluate the trends rigorously can put themselves in the best possible position to respond electronically if and when demand
grow¡¨ (p. 117).

The book¡¦s most intriguing chapter is ¡§ the next wave in e-shopping.¡¨ De Kare-Silver reminds us of thinking about the next wave in e-shopping in the last part of the book. In addition to sophisticated consumer demand, rapidly improving technologies are the key forces driving the changes in shopping habits and the arrival of new wave in e-shopping.

With the development of digital TV, de Kare-Silver wonders if this new technology will be the winner of e-shopping in the future. Consequently, he interviews leading experts and commentators including Curtis Kopf ... Mike Nevin (from Dixons), Bruce Lynn (from Microsoft¡¦s Web TV), and James Ackerman & Julian Eccles (From BiB TV) to help answer the question. They dare not disagree that the wave of the future in e-shopping is digital TV because many large corporations are investing heavily in TV interactive shopping channel. Digital TV, undoubtedly, will become omnipresent quickly and play a significant role in e-shopping in the future.

By and large, the author prefers giving empirical cases to building theories, so it is easy to read even though your background is not related to business. The rules or strategies previously mentioned teach retailers and manufactures how to respond to changes and competition. This book targets retailers and manufactures: how to make profits and survive in the changing market. These are the important issues the author discusses, but I think the author can do more. I suggest that the author can mention the issue of business ethics. Are there any new strategies or rules that may invade consumer¡¦s privacy? Should retailers and manufactures adapt all the data of consumers they get on line for any purpose? These questions are needed to discuss more for developing a sound e-shopping environment. Business rules and strategies are necessary, however, business ethics cannot be neglected, either.

The author also mentions a bunch of examples from the UK, U.S., and some from Japan. However, people in different countries, of course, do not share the same attributes. Undoubtedly, you cannot assure if the rules and strategies workable in the western world will fit in the rest of the world. If the author can compare the differences of e-shopping experiences in different countries and create some alternative rules and strategies, I would be further likely to back him up.