Process Improvement Principles: A Concise Guide for Managers
Where the improvement of processes and systems across diverse industries is concerned, the Process Improvement Principles is a bible of sorts for improving the design and operations of all types of systems. The set of 25 principles shared throughout the textbook can be applied in the manufacturing industry, healthcare, distribution, warehousing, retail, and aviation industry among others.
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Where the improvement of processes and systems across diverse industries is concerned, the Process Improvement Principles is a bible of sorts for improving the design and operations of all types of systems. The set of 25 principles shared throughout the textbook can be applied in the manufacturing industry, healthcare, distribution, warehousing, retail, and aviation industry among others.
Process Improvement Principles was written by Dr. C Dennis Pegden, the founder of Simio LLC. The principles discussed in this productivity publication leverages Dr. Pegden’s more than three decades of experience providing optimization solutions and solving the production challenges both small and large enterprises face. This book does not propose or present a process improvement methodology such as Six Sigma or lean manufacturing. Instead, it presents and illustrates basic principles for process improvement that can be used with any methodology within your process improvement projects.
The 25 principles are outlined concisely to ensure managers and decision-makers with hectic schedules can quickly devour its contents and immediately apply them to solve real-world problems.
C. Dennis Pegden, Ph.D. is the founder/CEO of Simio LLC, and was previously the founder/CEO of Systems Modeling Corporation, now part of Rockwell Software. He has held faculty positions at both the University of Alabama in Huntsville and The Pennsylvania State University. He led in the development of the SLAM, SIMAN, Arena, and Simio simulation products, and the simulation-based scheduling features in Preactor 400 (now owned by Siemens) and FactoryTalk Scheduler (now owned by Rockwell). He is the author/co-author of five books on simulation and has published papers in several other fields, including mathematical programming, queuing, computer arithmetic, scheduling, and simulation.
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