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GeoTol Pocket Guide
Rich in color graphics and updated to the latest ASME Y14.5-2009 standard, the GeoTol Pocket Guide is a necessary companion and an ideal reference to the major concepts and necessary formulas used every day by designers, manufacturing and quality personnel, students, and other practitioners working with geometric tolerancing.

Kaizen Event Fieldbook: Foundation Framework, and Standard Work for Effective Events
Kaizen event effectiveness is a prerequisite for lean transformation success. It provides the necessary transformational jump-start momentum, organizational learning and engagement, and sustainable, step-function improvements.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Lean: Lessons from the Road
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Lean: Lessons from the Road reveals the most critical lessons learned over the authors' combined 30-plus years of exploring the lean highways. Lean leaders add value by changing things, moving them forward, and producing different results than the day before.

Precision Machine Design
This book is a comprehensive engineering exploration of all the aspects of precision machine design-both component and system design considerations for precision machines. It addresses both theoretical analysis and practical implementation providing many real world design case studies as well as numerous examples of existing component and their characteristics.

Fundamentals of Manufacturing, Third Edition
This book is a valuable resource for anyone with limited manufacturing experience and training. It also provides a structured review of the fundamentals of manufacturing for individuals planning to take the Certified Manufacturing Technologist (CMfgT) or Certified Manufacturing Engineer (CMfgE) certification exams.
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