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As part of the Project Management Essential Library, this book provides project managers with new skills and innovative approaches to the fundamentals of effectively managing projects. It covers the principles of estimating projects in a discipline-independent context. Written by Dr. Parviz F. Rad, Editor of the Project Management Journal(R), this book will help you gain insights into best practices for progress monitoring and cost management, as...
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As manufacturing businesses world-wide face fierce competition and operate in rapidly changing markets, customers are demanding higher quality products and ever more competitive prices and delivery times. This concise and easy to read text, based upon actual experience, defines the fundamental ingredients required to introduce quality improvement into an organization.
The book opens with a discussion of past and present concepts of quality, and provides...
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Discusses how to identify and develop plant materials with resistance to insect pests. Covers terminology and categories of resistance, and presents techniques for studying plant resistance. Also gives consideration to potentially resistant material. Examines the molecular biology and genetics of insect resistance in crop plants, and insect genes capable of overcoming resistance to form insect biophytes. The closing chapter presents hitherto unpublished...
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"This edition addresses the theme of reliability against the backdrop of increasing litigation in the area of product performance. New chapters also introduce and provide a historical perspective for Six Sigma, and discuss practical applications of the concepts of service excellence within healthcare organizations." "This book also expands its analysis of management of process quality, customer focus and satisfaction, organizing for TQM, control charts...
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Abstract: Environmentally safe methods for keeping the home pest-free are presented in this book based on latest findings of several research groups. Cockroaches, mosquitoes, lice, rodents, spiders, and fleas comprise some of the creatures that can be controlled without resorting to the use of chemical pesticides. Diagrams of inexpensive equipment for control and pictures of the pests discussed are included.
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W. Edwards Deming's revolutionary management ideas brought about a complete turnaround at companies like Ford, Xerox and General Motors. His name is legendary in Japan for the role he played in reinvigorating their industries after World War II. But American managers, many of them looking for a quick-fix recipe for success, undertook the Deming method as if it were a simple management plan. What they failed to recognize was that the Deming method...
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"This book presents the results of an assessment of the state of robotics in Japan, South Korea, Western Europe and Australia and a comparison of robotics R & D programs in these countries with those in the United States. The comparisons include areas like robotic vehicles, space robotics, service robots, humanoid robots, networked robots, and robots for biological and medical applications, and based on criteria such as quality, scope, funding and...
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Charismatic inventor of the Fourteen Point philosophy for quality, W. Edwards Deming took his techniques to Japan, where they were readily adopted and credited for that country's economic triumph. Here Gabor explores the development of "quality" as a management science, from the United States to Japan and back again.
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