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The Basics of FMEA
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 15.00Systematically assists developers and engineers in achieving quality and cost efficiency. This title fully defines Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) and provides a definitive ten step method for its implementation illustrated by an extended case study. more...
Comeback
Simon & Schuster 2013; US$ 32.95In Comeback, Pulitzer Prize-winners Paul Ingrassia and Joseph B. White take us to the boardrooms, the executive offices, and the shop floors of the auto business to reconstruct, in riveting detail, how America's premier industry stumbled, fell, and picked itself up again. The story begins in 1982, when Honda started building cars in Marysville,... more...
Toyota Talent
McGraw-Hill 2007; US$ 27.95Toyota doesn't just produce cars; it produces talented people. In the international bestseller, The Toyota Way , Jeffrey Liker explained Toyota's remarkable success through a 4P model for excellence-Philosophy, People, Problem Solving, and Process. Liker, with coauthor David Meier, provided deeper insight into the practical application of the... more...
The Decline of the British Motor Industry (Routledge Revivals)
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 42.95First published in 1980, this book considers the British motor industry over the period between 1945 and 1979, analysing the ways in which the industry suffered a considerable decline in the post-war era, when compared to motor industries of other countries or to most other British industries. Rather than blaming labour and management, as has frequently... more...
Toyota by Toyota
CRC Press 2012; US$ 39.95Written by former Toyota associates, Toyota By Toyota: Reflections from the Inside Leaders on the Techniques That Revolutionized the Industry focuses on the purpose of Lean methodologies, techniques, and principles. It compiles more than a century of combined experience from management-level employees who supply little-known insights about the Toyota... more...
The Toyota Way Fieldbook
McGraw-Hill Education 2005; US$ 34.00The Toyota Way Fieldbook is a companion to the international bestseller The Toyota Way. The Toyota Way Fieldbook builds on the philosophical aspects of Toyota's operating systems by detailing the concepts and providing practical examples for application that leaders need to bring Toyota's success-proven practices to life in any organization.... more...
How Toyota Became #1
Penguin Group US 2007; US$ 15.00Everyone knows that Toyota has had an amazing twenty-five- year run, rising from a humble Japanese start-up to a thriving global giant. But how did it pass Ford and GM to become the world?s largest auto manufacturer? And how does it continue to thrive while so many competitors are struggling and failing? Journalist David Magee dug deeply into Toyota?s... more...
Shooting Star
ECW Press 2009; US$ 14.95In the years just after World War II, motorcycles were the third largest source of foreign exchange for the United Kingdom, lagging behind only automobiles and Scotch whiskey. And yet, the British motorcycle industry was essentially dead by 1975. This is the first comprehensive examination of the demise of what was once not only the largest motorcycle... more...
Thinking Small
Random House Publishing Group 2012; US$ 26.00Sometimes achieving big things requires the ability to think small. This simple concept was the driving force that propelled the Volkswagen Beetle to become an avatar of American-style freedom, a household brand, and a global icon. The VW Bug inspired the ad men of Madison Avenue, beguiled Woodstock Nation, and has recently been re-imagined for the... more...
Driven to Succeed
Dundurn 2012; US$ 32.99Hungarian-born Frank Hasenfratz fled his native land in 1956 after the revolution to free his nation from Soviet domination failed. He eventually settled in Guelph, Ontario, where he founded Linamar, now the second-largest maker of auto parts in Canada. This is Frank's story as well as that of the company he created. more...









