Zero Quality Control: Source Inspection and the Poka-Yoke System

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		List Price: $87.95		From: Productivity Press From: Productivity Press Salesrank: 70698 Released: 1986-04-01
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Zero Quality Control: Source Inspection and the Poka-Yoke System Editorial Review:
Dr. Shingo reveals his unique defect prevention system, which combines source inspection and poka-yoke (mistake-proofing) devices that provide instant feedback on errors before they can become defects. The result: 100 percent inspection that eliminates the need for SQC and produces defect-free products without fail. Includes 112 examples, most costing under $100. Two-part video program also available; call for details.

Customer Reviews:
You've got to read that
Every factory or operations person has to read that, and start thinking like him! This is the mindset that will take the companies to the future. The wasteful ones will vanish along the way!The Machine That Changed the World

Zero Quality Control (Zero QC) Is The Ideal Production System
".....The title of this book refers to three critical and interrelated aspects of quality control as taught by Shigeo Shingo.

ZERO QUALITY CONTROL (ZERO QC) IS THE IDEAL PRODUCTION SYSTEM....."
[from the book of the publisher's preface]

Excellent book on Zero Quality Control
The author has really shown the way to achieve zero defect through best method of quality control. The idea implementation of source inspection, self checks and successive checks and their result is really impressive. Various method shown to eliminate various errors and defects during manufacturing provides the eye-opening to people who want to acheive zero defects with zero quality control.

Not as good as Shingo's SMED, but......
Book info : I read the 1st English edition that was published in 1986.
Pre required knowledge: None
Purchased price : USD 29,99
General : The book is easy to read, in occasion the book is repeating itself and the 1st chapter is a copy from Shingo's book on SMED.

Book content:
The book is basically divided into 2 parts. Part 1 (46% of book content) handles all the theory on processes, operations and the different kind of inspections. Then the book moves on to Quality Control, Statistical Quality Control and Zero Quality Control with the explanation of how this can be achieved by Poka-Yoke devices. The 2nd part of the book handles examples of Poka-yoke systems and more information on the author. Because of the age of the book some of the ideas are still good but the solutions are outdated.

It is a good book; but I was a bit disappointed after reading Shingo's book on SMED. Maybe were my expectations to high, if you are able to purchase this book for a reasonable price I recommend it.

Master piece, but...
The book can be divided into two parts:
1-st: theory, philosophy of Zero Quality Control; this part is well written, gives you power to act.
2-nd: samples of POKA YOKE; this part you can omit unless you will find similar problem that has been solved - old equipment, poor pictures and drawings.
From my experience - use wisdom from the first part of that book to explain to your collegues "WHY USE POKA YOKE?", then they will find the technical solutions.

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