Continuous Improvement Series
About the Book Series
Continuous Improvement refers to all aspects of improving processes, products, methodologies, and techniques to ensure they provide more value to customers and are sustainable. This entails topics such as six sigma, lean, design for six sigma, quality, preventative and predictive maintenance and sustainability. Continuous improvement involves using various methodologies to design and measure changes to document the quantitative and qualitative improvements and sustain the gains. This involves breakthrough thinking and changing the culture of an organization. This series covers the methodological and cultural aspects of driving continuous improvements in all types of organizations for sustainable results. The concepts behind continuous improvement will ensure companies innovate and become the best in class with successful financial impacts.
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Lean-AI: A Humanistic Integration of Lean and AI
1st Edition
By Adil Dalal, Elizabeth A. Cudney
September 15, 2025
We stand at the threshold of a transformative era where the convergence of Lean methodologies and artificial intelligence (AI) is redefining operational excellence. This book is a pioneering exploration of this integration, offering a roadmap for organizations seeking to harness AI’s potential ...
A Career Worth Engineering: Don't Just Graduate—Navigate the Transition from Student to Professional
1st Edition
By John S. Rogers, Sean Maciag
October 22, 2024
Transitioning from student to professional can be a challenging journey, but it doesn't have to be a daunting mystery. In A Career Worth Engineering: Don't Just Graduate—Navigate the Transition from Student to Profession, the authors draw from their own experiences and share valuable lessons ...
Building a Sustainable Lean Culture: An Implementation Guide
1st Edition
By Tina K. Agustiady, Elizabeth A. Cudney
October 07, 2024
This book is an implementation guide for creating a Lean Culture from the ground up while gaining buy-in from key stakeholders and being able to sustain the results. Everyone talks about implementing a Lean Culture, but only provides Lean Tools for the implementation. This book discusses ...
Lean Sustainability: A Pathway to a Circular Economy
1st Edition
By Elizabeth A. Cudney, Sandra Furterer, Chad M. Laux, Gaganpreet S. Hundal
November 13, 2023
While Lean principles have been around for decades, the practices have yet to keep current with the growing area of Sustainability. This book provides an implementation approach to integrating Lean and Sustainability principles toward a circular economy. Lean Sustainability: A Pathway to a Circular...
Affordability: Integrating Value, Customer, and Cost for Continuous Improvement
1st Edition
By Paul Odomirok
March 31, 2021
Affordability is a new concept that allows the implementation of Continuous Improvement for any organization. It encapsulates contemporary methods that improve product and service profitability, increases market share, value, speed, quality and capability, and cuts down on cost. This new method ...
Design for Six Sigma: A Practical Approach through Innovation
1st Edition
By Elizabeth A. Cudney, Tina Kanti Agustiady
March 31, 2021
Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) is an innovative continuous improvement methodology for designing new products, processes, and services by integrating Lean and Six Sigma principles. This book will explain how the DFSS methodology is used to design robust products, processes, or services right the first...
Emerging Frontiers in Industrial and Systems Engineering: Success Through Collaboration
1st Edition
Edited
By Harriet B. Nembhard, Elizabeth A. Cudney, Katherine M. Coperich
March 31, 2021
Success is driven through collaboration. The field of Industrial and Systems Engineering has evolved as a major engineering field with interdisciplinary strength drawn from effective utilization, process improvement, optimization, design, and management of complex systems. It is a broad discipline ...
Healthcare Affordability: Motivate People, Improve Processes, and Increase Performance
1st Edition
By Paul Odomirok
March 31, 2021
Healthcare Affordability: Motivate People, Improve Processes, and Increase Performance applies the Theory of Affordability across the Healthcare Enterprise. Affordability is realized when the Value delivered exceeds the Patient’s requirements, while the expense for the quality resources required to...
Robust Quality: Powerful Integration of Data Science and Process Engineering
1st Edition
By Rajesh Jugulum
March 31, 2021
Historically, the term quality was used to measure performance in the context of products, processes and systems. With rapid growth in data and its usage, data quality is becoming quite important. It is important to connect these two aspects of quality to ensure better performance. This book ...
Statistical Process Control: A Pragmatic Approach
1st Edition
By Stephen Mundwiller
March 31, 2021
People with minimal math skills, and even those with advanced math skills, have difficulty grasping the intuitive concepts behind Statistical Process Control (SPC). Many practitioners do not understand the concepts behind Control Charts, the differences of out of control and out of specification, ...
Additive Manufacturing Change Management: Best Practices
1st Edition
By David M. Dietrich, Michael Kenworthy, Elizabeth A. Cudney
February 18, 2019
Additive Manufacturing (AM) has altered manufacturing as we know it, with shortened development time, increased performance, and reduced product costs. Executive management in industry are bombarded by marketing from their competitors showcasing design solutions leveraged through AM. Therefore, ...
Transforming Organizations: One Process at a Time
1st Edition
By Kathryn A. LeRoy
September 21, 2017
This book offers leaders an approach to systemically affect change and create cultures of excellence where staff work together to change the way they view their work. Based on well-known quality concepts, readers will discover the essential concepts and actions that have the power to transform ...