Reducing process costs with lean, six sigma, and value engineering techniques

Pries, Kim H.Quigley, Jon M. ; Quigley, Jon M. ; Quigley, Jon M. - - Boca Raton : CRC Press - 2013

Introduction -- Saving money with homegrown ideas -- Arbitrary cost down approach -- The isuzu approach to teardowns -- The dod approach -- Classical value analysis / value engineering techniques -- Classical techniques -- Saving money with six sigma projects -- Saving money with lean manufacturing -- Saving money with optimization -- Regaining money with cost recovery -- Other methods -- Finding cost reductions -- When cost improvement goes wrong.