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Please use our "Scrap Reduction" Discussion Area to recommend articles for this page related to Scrap Reductions in processes.

"Scrap Reduction" articles for this page can be about methods of scrap cost accounting (calculating scrap cost for calculating true downtime cost) or about ways of scrap reduction in different industries and processes.

Please tell us about Scrap Reductions articles and articles calculating scrap cost. What Scrap occurs as a result of downtime? How is scrap cost  assigned for rework?

Scrap Reduction Articles:

Throughput Accounting: A Guide to Constraint Management - Under traditional cost accounting, the cost of any scrapped item will be its fully absorbed cost. For example, the following table shows that a product ...

Industry Week : Snuffing Out Scrap - ... Manufacturers tend to be more successful in their scrap-reduction efforts when they use some type of scientific approach rather than basing ...

Traceability and scrap reduction in extruded products - Traceability and scrap reduction in extruded products. by " Rubber World"; Business Chemicals, plastics and rubber.

Improving stamping production end to end: Reducing scrap, tooling ...  - Welding coils can reduce scrap, downtime, and tooling damage. A variety of coil end joiners are described, such as portable, stationary, ...

Scrap -- Include in T calculation? - On the other hand, is scrap is material unused, then the cost thereof should be ... In the recent conversation on accounting for scrap, Eli S wrote: ...

 


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The Japanese Path To Maintenance Excellence e-Book

by Mike Sondalini 

This e-book is about the Japanese way of doing asset management and maintenance. If you think you already have a good system then you will enjoy reading it as you compare yours and theirs. If you have a poor system then you will get a totally different view of how great maintenance can be done. New! MP3 audio books version available

 
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New! True Down Time Cost Analysis - 2nd Edition

Feed Forward Publications, February 2006, ESBN: F36-047B-2151-10B2

"True Down Time Costs Analysis focus on costing methods and costing techniques that quantify like activities that previously fell under the indirect cost definition, like the hidden cost of outsourcing, warranties, etc. This technique is a must for Scrap Reduction management, but also should be applied to piece manufacturing and even other industries."

 
high quality educational Ebooks and CDs specifically aimed at increasing the engineering knowledge of plant operators, maintainers and managers.

Engineering E-books Online - All PDF format so your can print multiple copies for your employees. Titles like CMMS Secrets and more topics like ...

Pumps, Materials Handling, Maintenance, CMMS, Bearings, Process Control, Safety, Utilities, Machinery, Metallurgy & Welding, Plastic and Motors.



Overall Equipment Effectiveness:A Powerful Production/Maintenance Tool for Increased Profits by Robert C. Hansen. Industrial Press; 1st edition (January 15, 2002)

World Class Manufacturing: The Lessons of Simplicity Applied by Richard J. Schonberger. The Free Press. New York 1986.

Total Productive Maintenance, An American Approach by Terry Wireman, Industrial Pr; 1992

Making Common Sense Common Practice: Models for Manufacturing Excellence by Ron Moore, Butterworth-Heinemann; 2002

The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox. North River Press, Inc. Great Barrington, MA 1992.

The 5S's: Five Keys To A Total Quality Environment, by Takashi Osada, Asian Productivity Organization, York, 1991.

Quality Maintenance - Zero Defects through Equipment Management, by Seiji Tsuchiya, pub. Productivity Press, Massachusetts, 1992.

The Power of root cause analysis by (by Charles J. Latino, President & Founder of Reliability Center, Inc.)

Managing The Design Factory by Donald G. Reinertsen.

The Quantum Leap... In Speed to Market by John R. Costanza. JcIT Institute of Technology. Colorado 1990

Reengineering the Corporation by Micheal Hammer and James Champy. Harper Business. New York 1993.

Introduction to TPM: Total Productive Maintenance. by Seiichi Nakajima Productivity Press. Cambridge, MA.

Just In Time For America: A Common Sense Production Strategy, by Kenneth A. Wantuck, KWA Media, Southfield MI, 1989.

Zapp! The Lightning of Empowerment by William C. Byham, PhD. and Jeff Cox. Dimensional Development Int'l Press. Pittsburg 1989.

Poka-Yoke: Improving Quality by Preventing Defects by Hiroyuki Hirano, edited by Nikkan Kogyo Shimbum, Ltd. Factory Magazine Productivity Pree. Portland, Oregon 1988.

Zero Quality Control: Source Inspection and the Poka-Yoke System. Shigeo Shingo Productivity Press. Cambridge, Mass. 1986.

A Revolution in Manufacturing: The SMED System. Shigeo Shingo Productivity Press.

Statistical Methods for Quality Improvement by Hitoshi Kume. The Association for Overseas Technical Scholarship (AOTS).

Total Quality Control by Armand Feigenbaum,  New York: McGraw-Hill 1991.

 
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