The Sayings of Shigeo Shingo: Key Strategies for Plant Improvement (Japanese Management)

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The Sayings of Shigeo Shingo: Key Strategies for Plant Improvement (Japanese Management) Editorial Review:
Here is a great introduction to the remarkable mind of Shigeo Shingo, indisputably one of the great forces in manufacturing. In this book Dr. Shingo describes his approach to manufacturing improvements, developed and refined over the course of a brilliant career. He called it the Scientific Thinking Mechanism (STM).

The Sayings of Shigeo Shingo leads you through the five stages of STM, with appropriate examples taken from notes Dr. Shingo collected during his consulting trips to American and Japanese plants. It shows how, in many cases, the most brilliant ideas are often so simple they're overlooked. Or they're dismissed because they seem ridiculous:

• A Japanese plant, after first rejecting the idea as "too silly," finds that unhulled rice is ideal for smoothing the rough surfaces on pressure-formed ebonite switches
• Granville-Phillips, in Boulder, Colorado, reduced defects to zero in one process after Dr. Shingo suggested illuminating circuit boards from below to reduce errors involved in the insertion of diodes and resistors

The Sayings of Shigeo Shingo is must reading for plant managers and engineers. It formalizes the powerful and creative way of thinking that Shingo himself used time and again to overcome problems that seemed virtually insurmountable.

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Key Strategies for Plant Improvement
Very little new info. Other books also keep repeating same thing.
TPS From an Industrial Eng' Viewpoint and SMED are the only two Shingo books needed.
Everything else is repetition.
Update: 2/24/10. I just received Fundamentals Principles of Lean Manufacturing, by Shingo. It's a hard read due to the writing and labels Shingo placed on the lean tools, principles but, I think it's a very good book for the practitioner. Similar to OHNO's books; requires the student to do shop floor activity and capture their own learning. Then the book has more meaning and will help codify our own learning.
thanks to the publisher.

the best ever writen book on machine improvement
Shigeo Shingo details the approach to improve unefficient equipments. The technical approach and the people change management are combined and explained in numerous convincing examples. This book is a must to anyone starting as manufacturing engineer (project, maintenance production ...)

Excellent thought provoking book!
Shigeo Shingo is truly one of the most under rated quality gurus out there. His methods and genius rank with Deming and Juran, but are much more easily applied. If you are interested in SMED, Constraint Management, Poka-Yoke or continuous improvement READ THIS BOOK

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