Shifting Paradigms: Reshaping the Future of Industry

by Dave Garwood, Michael Bane

A major U.S. manufacturing company had a setup problem. Tools were centralized and whenever a machine operator needed to do a setup or machine alignment, he checked a wrench out of the storeroom, made the adjustment and returned the wrench to the storeroom. Management wanted to focus on automation, robots and rearranging the factory. Why not, we suggested, give all the machine operators their own wrenches? Problem solved-and for less than $100! Of course, they're not all that easy to solve. But in Shifting Paradigms, Dave Garwood provides answers to many of the million $20 problems we face everyday in our companies.

Join companies like Trane, Eastman Kodak, Bently Nevada, Intermec, and the mythical "Feel Good, Inc." who share their stories in Shifting Paradigms. You'll never view your business through the same old glasses again!

205 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1997