The BASICS Handbook is designed to show personnel at all levels within a manufacturing operations environment that, with easy to understand continuous improvement tools, they can make a difference to operational performance where safety, quality, cost, delivery, and people are paramount to business success. The tools and techniques throughout, based upon examples from the author''s experience, demonstrate that no matter what industry, they can bring the desired added value.
This book will help any manufacturing shop floor add value in terms of quality/cost and delivery performance. It will also show how using tools and techniques from the "coal face" out will improve process performance by using simple data collection and measurement - not only on outputs, but just as importantly on "critical to quality inputs" such as process parameters and their processing windows - to deliver the desired output KPIs. The power and confidence that this gives to local experts and pro
