IMPLEMENTING TWI : creating and managing a skills -based culture.

Featuring strategies employed in Lean, this volume describes the experiences of organizations using TWI more than 60 years after the Training Within Industry program turned the U.S. into the industrial giant that won World War II. Based on their experience implementing TWI in organizations as divers...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: GRAUPP, PATRICK
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: [Place of publication not identified] CRC Press, 2018.
Series:Productivity Press Book
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Compelling Need for Skills Training; Section I: TWI Takes Hold in the U.S.-Again; Chapter 1: Learning to Do Again What Was Already Done Before; Chapter 2: Tenacious at Nixon Gear, Inc.; Chapter 3: Getting TWI to Take Root in an Organization: TWI as an Integrated Process; Section II: TWI'S Connection to Lean; Chapter 4: TWI as an Integral Part of Strategic Lean: Standard Work, Continuous Improvement, Respect for People; Chapter 5: The Role of a TWI Champion at Donnelly Custom Manufacturing
  • Chapter 6: Starting Over to Get It Right at Albany International Monofilament PlantSection III: TWI and Culture; Chapter 7: Building a Culture of Competence: The Human Element of Each TWI Program; Chapter 8: Culture Building at W. L. Gore; Chapter 9: TWI Returns to Healthcare at Virginia Mason Medical Center; Section IV: TWI Implementation; Chapter 10: Applying TWI to Your Organization; Chapter 11: A Preemptive Turnaround at Currier Plastics, Inc.; V: Expanding TWI by Leveraging JR, JI, and JM; Chapter 12: TWI's Problem Solving Training; Conclusion: A New Beginning for TWI; Index