{"product_id":"9781416567875","title":"Let's Fix It! : Overcoming the Crisis in Manufacturing","description":"\u003cp\u003eNo company is built to last, argues world-renowned manufacturing guru Richard J. Schonberger. In this devastating indictment of current manufacturing practices, Schonberger submits a four-part revolutionary plan to solve the manufacturing crisis for good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom his statistically reliable database of 500 top global manufacturers, Schonberger finds that by the critical worldwide standard of lean production—shedding inventories -General Motors, General Electric, Toyota, and other world leaders have stopped improving. He presents powerful evidence that in recent years record profits have covered up waste and weakness. Clearly a lack of will to renew and recover from the natural tendency toward regression and erosion, it is more than a matter of garden-variety complacency—devastating as that is in this new era of global hypercompetition. Schonberger asserts that the inclination of industry leaders to engage in stock hyping to gain a quick fix from the dot-com explosion has distracted attention from \"the basics\" of world-class excellence. Among other villains contributing to the crisis, Schonberger contends, are newly hired managers with no trial-by-fire experience; bad equipment, systems, and job design; and retention of unprofitable customers and anachronistic command-and-control managerial hierarchies.\n\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cbr\u003eWhat to do? Just as he introduced the legendary \"just-in-time\" framework to the West in the 1980s, Schonberger prescribes strong medicine to cure our current malaise. Find your blind spots, he says. Roll confusing, time-sapping initiatives into a master program that is immune from \"the flavor of the month.\" Put lean into heavy-handed control systems. Develop products and standardize processes at \"home base\" for ease of migrating volume production anywhere in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Free Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145052934223,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":733.0,"currency_code":"TWD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.tw\/products\/9781416567875","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Taiwan","version":"1.0","type":"link"}