Manufacturers Books

It's nice to have an updated set of EU GMPs in book form. The problem is that the regulations continue to change, so the printed copy is never quite current.

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.........