{"product_id":"lets-fix-it-overcoming-the-crisis-in-manufacturing-9781416567875","title":"Let's Fix It!: Overcoming the Crisis in Manufacturing","description":"\u003cb\u003eNo company is built to last, argues world-renowned manufacturing guru Richard J. Schonberger. In this devastating indictment of current manufacturing practices, Schonberger submits a four-part revolutionary plan to solve the manufacturing crisis for good.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom his statistically reliable database of 500 top global manufacturers, Schonberger finds that by the critical worldwide standard of lean production--shedding inventories -General Motors, General Electric, Toyota, and other world leaders have stopped improving. He presents powerful evidence that in recent years record profits have covered up waste and weakness. Clearly a lack of will to renew and recover from the natural tendency toward regression and erosion, it is more than a matter of garden-variety complacency--devastating as that is in this new era of global hypercompetition. Schonberger asserts that the inclination of industry leaders to engage in stock hyping to gain a quick fix from the dot-com explosion has distracted attention from \"the basics\" of world-class excellence. Among other villains contributing to the crisis, Schonberger contends, are newly hired managers with no trial-by-fire experience; bad equipment, systems, and job design; and retention of unprofitable customers and anachronistic command-and-control managerial hierarchies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat to do? Just as he introduced the legendary \"just-in-time\" framework to the West in the 1980s, Schonberger prescribes strong medicine to cure our current malaise. Find your blind spots, he says. Roll confusing, time-sapping initiatives into a master program that is immune from \"the flavor of the month.\" Put lean into heavy-handed control systems. Develop products and standardize processes at \"home base\" for ease of migrating volume production anywhere in the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Free Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/25\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781416567875\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.76d","brand":"Richard J. Schonberger","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52491339989173,"sku":"9781416567875","price":17.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_f30c183a-0d90-4a90-a1ba-7eeb1a70a1f8.jpg?v=1777995825","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/lets-fix-it-overcoming-the-crisis-in-manufacturing-9781416567875","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}