Productivity Improvement Idea Bank

2019
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2011

March 2011
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2010

October 2010 - Air plane
Reinvent Your Hawker
More Speed, Fuel economy (7%)
Avaition Partners Winglets
http://www.duncanaviation.aero/airframe/promotions/winglets/hawker.php

2005 

Design-build model can increase productivity in construction industry compared to design-bid-build model.

http://www.mcdean.com/services/docs/prefab%20bill%20dean%20article.pdf

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2004

T N S Machining, Inc. has found a universal shop-wide coolant that has solved many common operational problems.  PICOCOOL 5254, a new generation high technology synthetic coolant, provides excellent lubricity for a variety of machining operations on many different materials especially difficult aluminum alloys. Reduced machine downtime and improve machining.

(Source: http://www.picochemical.com/mag/T%20N%20S%20Machining%20Productivity%20Improvement.doc)

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Bibliography

Productivity Improvement Using Ten Process Commandments  (Software Ind. Context), 2009

http://www.pmi.org/PDF/Patra_Bartaki_2009.pdf

Chip Design Process Productivity Improvements - Presentation - 2007

http://www.cvsi.fau.edu/download/attachments/267/Radical_Productivity_Improvement_Presentation.pdf?version=1

Making to High Performance and Productivity Improvement of Steel Bar and Wire Rod Rolling Process
NIPPON STEEL TECHNICAL REPORT No. 96 July 2007

http://www.nsc.co.jp/en/tech/report/pdf/n9604.pdf

How to Improve Fab Productivity  (2006)

http://www.ferret.com.au/n/How-to-Improve-Fab-Productivity-n714257

PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT OF COMPOSITES PROCESSING THROUGH THE USE OF INDUSTRIAL MICROWAVE TECHNOLOGIES
Progress In Electromagnetics Research, PIER 66, 267–285, 2006

http://ceta.mit.edu/PIER/pier66/21.06111901.Ku.pdf

Power Plant Efficiency Improvement in India (2004)

Presentation by S.C. Deosharma, NTPC

http://www.iea.org/work/2004/zets/apec/presentations/sharma.pdf

Five Leadership Skills for Implementing Productivity Improvement

http://www.maconline.org/tech/estimating/newsletter.pdf  Vol.20, No.3

All Newsletters link

http://hilltop.bradley.edu/~jadrian/newslet.html

SATPI: Strategic Administration by Total Productity Improvement
Michitoshi Oishi (Around 1999)

http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/mcn/pdf_files/part6_4.pdf

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Reports - Productivity Improvement

Productivity Improvement for Fossil Steam Power Plants, 2009
Date Published: 1/15/2010
Full list price:$25,000 (US dollars)
Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.
EPRI 3420 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, California 94304

(Productivity Improvement for Fossil Steam Power Plants, 2009  )

http://mydocs.epri.com/portal/server.pt?

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Journal Articles

PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT OF COMPOSITES PROCESSING THROUGH THE USE OF INDUSTRIAL MICROWAVE TECHNOLOGIES
Progress In Electromagnetics Research, PIER 66, 267–285, 2006

http://ceta.mit.edu/PIER/pier66/21.06111901.Ku.pdf

Productivity improvement in heart surgery - a case study on care process development 
Authors: Sauli Karvonen;  Juhani Rm ;  Mauri Leijala ; Jan Holmstrm 
Production Planning & Control, Volume 15, Issue 3 April 2004 , pages 238 - 246

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Books

Total productivity management: a systemic and quantitative approach  By David J. Sumanth
CRC Press, 1998

http://books.google.com/books?id=mLAv09ocvTsC

Creating productive organizations: developing your work force : manual By Elizabeth A. Smith
CRC Press, 1995

http://books.google.com/books?id=piE82NXBHdAC

The productivity manual By Elizabeth A. Smith
1995, Gulf Professional Publishing

http://books.google.com/books?id=zj2jspgdcn4C

Productivity management: a practical handbook, Page 965 By Joseph Prokopenko, International Labour Office
International Labour Organization, 1987

http://books.google.com/books?id=0jyOKj8S_iYC

Productivity: A Practical Program for Improving Efficiency By Clair F. Vough, Bernard Asbell
Productivity Research International, 1986

http://books.google.com/books?id=w5U4HAAACAAJ

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Updated on 25 Dec 2019
23 March 2012