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

~ Shigeo Shingo (Author)

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Shingo is an unquestioned genius+the Thomas Edison of Japan.... He has an approach to problems and solutions that is usually quite simple and always brilliant.

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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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Product Details

• Hardcover: 207 pages
• Publisher: Productivity Press; 1 edition (July 1, 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0915299151
• ISBN-13: 978-0915299157
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #240,436 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the best ever writen book on machine improvement, April 17, 2000

By	antoine marty, Gemini Consulting (France) - See all my reviews

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 ...)

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent thought provoking book!, April 1, 1999

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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

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Key Strategies for Plant Improvement, September 12, 2005

By	Tony Polidori "TPS" (CT, USA) - See all my reviews

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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.