Includes bibliographical references and index. Butuner, H. (2017). Results-based systematic operational improvement. Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press.

Part I: Improvement Planning -- Chapter 1: Result-based improvement -- Productivity -- Importance of Productivity for Businesses -- Relationship between Profitability and Cost Results-Based Improvement -- Chapter 2: Results-based Systematic Improvement Planning -- SIP: Approach -- SIP: Three Fundamentals -- SIP: Six Steps -- Organize the Program and Investigate the Current Status by Data Analysis -- Clarify Improvement Targets -- Understand Analysis ad Determine Operational Leverages -- Develop Alternative Improvement Ideas -- Evaluate Ideas and Select the Best -- Implementation Plan of Selected Improvements and Control -- Part II: Steps of Systematic Improvement Planning -- Chapter 3: Organize the Program and Investigate the Current Status by Data Analysis -- Improvement Program Organization -- Planning Issues, External Conditions, and Program Schedule -- Review the Current Situation -- Chapter 4: Clarify Improvement Targets -- Chapter 5: Understand Analysis and Determine Operational Leverages -- Measurement and Analysis Techniques -- Analytical Quality Tools -- Pareto Diagram (for Root Cause Analysis) -- Cause-and-Effect Diagram -- Control Tables -- Histograms -- Distribution Diagrams -- Control Sheets -- Work Sampling -- Work Study -- Flow Process Chart/Activity Analysis Chart -- Sequence Diagram -- Customer Surveys -- Financial Analysis -- Process Analysis -- Capacity Analysis -- 5W -- Determination of Operational Leverages -- Problems According to Their Appearance -- Determining Possible Operational Improvement Leverages -- Chapter 6: Develop Alternative Improvement Ideas -- Process of Idea Development -- Generation of Ideas for Improvement -- Description of Ideas -- Operational Improvement Techniques -- Layout Planning-Systematic Layout Planning -- Materials Handling Planning-Systematic Handling Analysis -- Container Planning-Systematic Container Planning -- Planning and Process Improvements -- Cell Design-Systematic Planning of Cells -- Group Technology -- Line Balancing -- Just-in-Time Production -- Single-Minute Exchange of Die -- Kanban -- Error Prevention (Poka-Yoke) -- 5S -- Total Productive Maintenance -- Kaizen -- Chapter 7: Evaluate Improvement Ideas and Select The Best Ones -- Chapter 8: Implementation Plan of Selected Improvements and Control -- Implementation Plan -- Monitoring and Evaluation

Results-Based Systematic Operational Improvement brings you a new perspective, and more significantly, provides benefits by the application of this systematic methodology. This book provides a complete set of practical improvement techniques. More importantly, it guides you to identify the appropriate tools to use for each circumstance, how to use the tools, and how to target them directly to achieve effective results. Results-Based Systematic Operational Improvement presents a systematic method of improvement. This straightforward method is easy to understand. It is based on fundamentals. It is universally applicable to any type of business. This book assembles the different ideas, processes, and techniques under the same roof, to develop a systematic methodology that is easily understandable and applicable. Part I discusses productivity for businesses that have monitored their deficiencies. It specifically provides definitions of results-based improvement and the systematic method with regard to improvement planning to raise awareness from the perspective of the employees. Part II takes you through the Systematic Improvement Planning Pattern. Systematic Improvement Planning consist of a pattern of six steps through which each project passes, and the three fundamentals involved in any improvement project. The book describes step by step the procedure and improvement techniques to use. Each chapter is devoted to a specific step of the pattern.