Reducing Production Costs

This book is written for everyone who is trying to do more with less! Using a proven methodology of reducing production costs, it shows you how to evaluate paybacks so that you can pick winning improvement strategies. Unlike many programs (that often rely on smoke and mirrors), this approach is built solely on the process data itself. These techniques remove guesswork and replace it with practical tools built upon a rigorous theoretical foundation.

Some of this material has been available for years, but there has been no serious effort to integrate the tools into the conceptual framework that promotes their effective use.

Use this book and join practitioners who have been taught the conceptual framework for the techniques and have had spectacular results! Their success is proof that this methodology, used as the foundation for improvement efforts, does work-and works supremely well-in practice.

Discover how the nature of data leads to two distinctly different approaches to improvement.
Learn how to get the most out of existing systems using observational studies.
See how to quantify the Excess Costs of Production.
Learn how to quantify the Excess Costs of Use.
Discover how these Excess Costs are related to Capability Indexes.
Learn how to use the tables to find the Excess Costs for: Two-Sided Specifications, One-Sided Specifications, Target at Boundary Condition, and when the Nominal Costs change with aim.
Get the formulas for finding the Excess Costs for Count Data.
Find all of the computational details for the ten tables of Excess Costs in the summary chapter.

This book is intended to breathe a breath of life into the dry bones of the computations and techniques of SPC, and to take you to the point where you understand how simple and easy it is to continually and relentlessly reduce production costs-leading, of course, to a better bottom line!

Dr. Donald J. Wheeler has been actively planting the seeds of transformation in companies and organizations around the world for over 25 years. His classes have been credited with being the essential element in turning companies around and taking them from red ink to black. In less spectacular ways his seminars have been the foundation for establishing learning cultures within many organizations in various industries. Unlike so many classes where the emphasis is upon techniques, Dr. Wheeler's classes go far beyond mere techniques to teaching the way of thinking needed to use those techniques effectively. He has worked with over 250 companies in chemical processing, health care, medical equipment, information technology, steel and aluminum production, agribusiness, food production and processing, electronics, pulp and paper processing, automotive suppliers, government agencies, and banking. Dr. Wheeler has taught over 1000 seminars in the USA, Canada, Mexico, England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Portugal, South Africa, Brazil and Malaysia. Over 60,000 students from the US and 32 countries on five continents have attended his seminars, which are held in Knoxville, Tennessee. Marketing research shows that word of mouth advertising brings in the majority of these students. We love it when our clients and students tell their friends and colleagues how good Dr. Wheeler's classes are! Along with his acclaimed seminars, Dr. Wheeler has also authored or coauthored twenty books which collectively form the definitive library for Discovery through Data Analysis. His books are being used throughout the US and in over 41 countries around the world. Dr. Wheeler has M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Statistics from Southern Methodist University. He taught at the University of Tennessee for 12 years where he was an Associate Professor of Statistics. He is a Fellow both the American Statistical Association and the American Society for Quality, and he was an associate of Dr. W. Edwards Deming until his death in 1993. In short, Dr. Wheeler is the internationally recognized expert on Data Analysis and SPC. He has the knowledge, the experience, and the ability to communicate that knowledge and experience to others. For more information on Dr. Wheeler's books and seminars, contact SPC Press at 800-545-8602.