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It's About Time

The Competitive Advantage of Quick Response Manufacturing

By: Rajan Suri

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It's About Time

The Competitive Advantage of Quick Response Manufacturing

By: Rajan Suri

In the decade since the publication of Rajan Suri’s landmark book, Quick Response Manufacturing, the innovative principles of QRM have been proven with impressive results at many companies, big and small, in a variety of industries. While the key principles of QRM remain unchanged, after a decade of teaching QRM workshops to senior executives, Suri has developed a clear, concise, and accessible method of presenting QRM strategy using four core concepts: 1. The Power of Time – the huge impact time has on your entire enterprise 2. Organization Structure – how to structure your organization to reduce lead times 3. System Dynamics – understanding how interactions between jobs and resources impact time to make better decisions on capacity, lot sizes, and similar issues 4. Enterprise-Wide Application – QRM is not just a shop floor strategy, it extends across your whole enterprise including material planning and control, supply management, office operations, and new product introduction Presenting new case studies on QRM implementation, It's About Time: The Competitive Advantage of Quick Response Manufacturing illustrates how QRM can not only reduce lead times but also improve quality, reduce operating costs, and enable companies to gain substantial market share. This practical reference explains how factories in advanced nations can use QRM strategy to compete with manufacturers in low-wage countries. In addition, it provides helpful pointers for QRM implementation, including accounting strategies, novel cost-justification approaches, and a stepwise process for implementation. Also included are downloadable resources with five appendices that provide a number of practical details to assist in the success of your QRM implementation. When you are ready to start implementing QRM, you will find that these appendices contain time-saving tips to help you work through implementation issues¿including simple calculation methods and tools to support the design of your QRM strategy. You can also access these Appendices on the Downloads and updates tab on https://www.crcpress.com/9781439805961. The author, Rajan Suri, recently became one of only 10 people to be inducted into Industry Week's 2010 Manufacturing Hall of Fame.

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The Practitioner's Guide to POLCA

The Production Control System for High-Mix, Low-Volume and Custom Products

By: Rajan Suri

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The Practitioner's Guide to POLCA

The Production Control System for High-Mix, Low-Volume and Custom Products

By: Rajan Suri

POLCA (Paired-cell Overlapping Loops of Cards with Authorization) is a card-based visual control system that manages the flow of jobs through the shop floor: at each operation, it controls which job should be worked on next to meet delivery targets. POLCA ensures that upstream operations use their capacity effectively by working on jobs that are needed downstream, while at the same time preventing excessive work-in-process (WIP) build-ups when bottlenecks appear unexpectedly. POLCA is particularly suited to companies manufacturing high-mix, low-volume and customized products. Such companies struggle with long lead times, late deliveries, and daily expediting to meet delivery dates. ERP systems are not designed to deal with this highly variable environment, and add-on software such as Finite Capacity Scheduling systems can require complex installation. Also, the Kanban system does not work well with low-volume or custom production. POLCA has delivered impressive results in such environments. It does not require any complex software implementation: it can be used without an ERP system or it can seamlessly complement an existing ERP system. This book: Provides a step-by-step roadmap on how to implement POLCA; invaluable for both companies that wish to implement POLCA as well as consultants and academics advising such companies. Explains the concepts in practical and easy-to-understand terms by showing detailed shop-floor examples. Includes more than 100 illustrations for understanding how POLCA works as well as for elaborating on details of the implementation steps. Contains case studies written by company owners and executives documenting their POLCA implementation process and the results achieved in various industries in six countries.

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Taylor & Francis

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1351170740

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Quick Response Manufacturing

A Companywide Approach to Reducing Lead Times

By: Rajan Suri

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Quick Response Manufacturing

A Companywide Approach to Reducing Lead Times

By: Rajan Suri

Developed by the author and now being employed by a number of businesses, Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM) is an expansion of time-based competition, aimed at a single target with the goal of reducing lead times. The key difference between QRM and other time-based programs is that QRM covers an entire organization, from the shop floor to the office, to sales and beyond. Providing guidelines for establishing a QRM enterprise, this volume builds upon kaizen, TQM, TPM, and other practice to help organizations streamline all functions of their operation. It shows how to quickly introduce products, along with ways to rethink materials and production management.

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1482278103

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The Practitioner's Guide to POLCA

The Production Control System for High-Mix, Low-Volume and Custom Products

By: Rajan Suri

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The Production Control System for High-Mix, Low-Volume and Custom Products

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Quick Response Manufacturing

A Companywide Approach to Reducing Lead Times

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A Companywide Approach to Reducing Lead Times

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Al Qaeda's Global Crisis

The Islamic State, Takfir and the Genocide of Muslims

By: V. G. Julie Rajan

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Al Qaeda's Global Crisis

The Islamic State, Takfir and the Genocide of Muslims

By: V. G. Julie Rajan

This book focuses on the crises facing Al Qaeda and how the mass killing of Muslims is challenging its credibility as a leader among Islamist jihadist organizations. The book argues that these crises are directly related to Al Qaeda’s affiliation with the extreme violence employed against Muslims in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan in the decade since 9/11. Al Qaeda’s public and private responses to this violence differ greatly. While in public Al Qaeda has justified those attacks declaring that, for the establishment of a state of ‘true believers’, they are a necessary evil, in private Al Qaeda has been advising its local affiliates to refrain from killing Muslims. To better understand the crises facing Al Qaeda, the book explores the development of Central Al Qaeda’s complex relationship with radical (mis)appropriations and manifestations of takfir, which allows one Muslim to declare another an unbeliever, and its unique relationship with each of its affiliates in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan. The author then goes on to consider how the prominence of takfir is contributing to the deteriorating security in those countries and how this is affecting Al Qaeda’s credibility as an Islamist terror organization. The book concludes by considering the long-term viability of Al Qaeda and how its demise could allow the rise of the even more radical, violent Islamic State and the implications this has for the future security of the Middle East, North Africa and Central/South Asia. This book will be of much interest to students of political violence and terrorism, Islamism, global security and IR.

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It's About Time

The Competitive Advantage of Quick Response Manufacturing

By: Rajan Suri

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Feather Touch

By: Ramon Dharma Rajan

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Feather Touch

By: Ramon Dharma Rajan

The story follows the afterlife of Dev. After his death, Dev becomes a conscience and his first human is a boy named Kanha. The first part of the story traces the childhood of Kanha from birth till the end of his school life. The second part of the story is set 5000 years in the past, at one of the oldest civilisations in the world. Things take a dramatic turn when the village has some unexpected visitors. Love blooms between Sita and Aditya, the prince. But love isnt such an easy task after all. A collage of mysteries are unravelled as Dev narrates the third and final act in the story. As the story draws a metophor around the history of India, the climax opens up to a happy and peaceful future for the world.

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Partridge Publishing

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1482856689

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E-Governance in India

The Progress Status

By: Sunil K. Muttoo,Rajan Gupta,Saibal K. Pal

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E-Governance in India

The Progress Status

By: Sunil K. Muttoo,Rajan Gupta,Saibal K. Pal

The book discusses the concepts of E-Governance from the understanding of a naïve user. While providing introduction to the concept, it shows the status of E-Governance in India through various measures, and its progress through different case studies. The historical development of E-Governance around the world and its rise in few developed and developing nations have also been discussed. The book also elaborates the establishment of E-Governance in India in detail and then compares the progress in Indian states through different measures and metrics. The structure of the E-Governance in India has been explained, including the explanation of the details related to National E-Governance Plan. The book is a combination of theoretical and practical concepts defined over various aspects of E-Governance in India. This book serves as the first stage reading material for any individual working in the Indian region on E-Governance.

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Springer

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9811388520

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New Cosmopolitanisms

South Asians in the US

By: Gita Rajan

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New Cosmopolitanisms

South Asians in the US

By: Gita Rajan

This book offers an in-depth look at the ways in which technology, travel, and globalization have altered traditional patterns of immigration for South Asians who live and work in the United States, and explains how their popular cultural practices and aesthetic desires are fulfilled. They are presented as the twenty-first century’s “new cosmopolitans”: flexible enough to adjust to globalization’s economic, political, and cultural imperatives. They are thus uniquely adaptable to the mainstream cultures of the United States, but also vulnerable in a period when nationalism and security have become tools to maintain traditional power relations in a changing world.

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Stanford University Press

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080476784X

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It's About Time

It's About Time

The Practitioner's Guide to POLCA

The Practitioner's Guide to POLCA

Quick Response Manufacturing

Quick Response Manufacturing

The Practitioner's Guide to POLCA

The Practitioner's Guide to POLCA

Quick Response Manufacturing

Quick Response Manufacturing

Al Qaeda's Global Crisis

Al Qaeda's Global Crisis

It's About Time

It's About Time

Feather Touch

Feather Touch

E-Governance in India

E-Governance in India

New Cosmopolitanisms

New Cosmopolitanisms

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