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Poka-Yoke (Improve Your Product Quality!)

by Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun

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Publisher Comments:

If your goal is 100% zero defects, here is the book for you — a completely illustrated guide to poka-yoke (mistake-proofing) for supervisors and shop-floor workers. Many poka-yoke ideas come from line workers and are implemented with the help of engineering staff or tooling or machine specialists. The result is better product quality and greater participation by workers in efforts to improve your processes, your products, and your company as a whole.

The first section of the book uses a simple, illustrated format to summarize many of the concepts and main features of poka-yoke. The second section shows 240 examples of poka-yoke improvements implemented in Japanese plants.

The book:

  • Organizes examples according to the broad issue or problem they address.
  • Pinpoints how poka-yoke applies to specific devices, parts and products, categories of improvement methods, and processes.
  • Provides sample improvement forms for you to sketch out your own ideas.
  • Use Poka-yoke in study groups as a model for your improvement efforts. It may be your single most important step toward eliminating defects completely. (For an industrial engineering perspective on how source inspection and poka-yoke can work together to reduce defects to zero, see Shigeo Shingo's Zero Quality Control.)

    Synopsis:

    If your goal is zero defects, here is the book for you-a completely illustrated guide to poka-yoke (mistake-proofing) for supervisors and shop floor workers. Poka-yoke ideas result in better product quality, and greater participation by workers in efforts to improve processes, products, and the company as a whole. This book is an encyclopedia of poka-yoke devices, presented as 240 one-page summaries with statements of the problem and the poka-yoke solution. Indexes provide an easy way to find the solution to a particular production problem.

    Product Details

    ISBN:
    9780915299317
    Editor:
    Shimbun, Nikkan Kogyo
    Author:
    Shimbun
    Editor:
    Shimbun, Nikkan Kogyo
    Author:
    Factory Magazine (Eds )
    Author:
    Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun Ltd
    Publisher:
    Productivity Press
    Location:
    Portland, Or.
    Subject:
    Quality Control
    Subject:
    Total Quality Management
    Subject:
    Entrepreneurship
    Edition Description:
    Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
    Series:
    Improve Your Product Quality!
    Series Volume:
    5
    Publication Date:
    February 1989
    Binding:
    Hardcover
    Language:
    English.
    Illustrations:
    Yes
    Pages:
    304
    Dimensions:
    11.20x8.83x.88 in. 2.03 lbs.

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