Value Engineering


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This invaluable reference teaches effective and practical techniques to improve the overall performance and outcome of design projects in various industries. Value Engineering highlights the application of value methodology to streamline current day operations, strategic planning in company or business segments, and everyday business decisions in the private sector. The book shows how to maximize budgets, reduce life cycle costs, improve project understanding, and create better working relationships. It explains how to gather information for the creation, evaluation, development, and presentation of new project ideas and shows how to design an appropriate task agenda and timeline.







Value Analysis and Engineering Reengineered


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By mastering the re-engineered value analysis & value engineering (VA/VE) problem-solving value methodology outlined in this book, any organization will be able to self-diagnose problems and self-discover solutions. The book is the product of Abate Kassa's dual lenses of experience and research over four decades. The book updates and upgrades VA/VE by integrating popular improvement methodologies, including Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, Total Quality Management, Kaizen, Business Process Reengineering, and Project Management, into the scientific method of the value methodology he dubbed PISERIA.




Value Analysis Tear-down


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This book presents a new technology, first developed in Japan by Sato, for improving existing products and creating new and better products. It combines traditional tear-down with the technologies of value analysis and value engineering.




Value Analysis and Engineering Reengineered


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Thought leader Abate Kassa finds the U.S. government‘s arbitrary cost-cutting directives of austerity measures or sequestration as a perfect example of moving in the wrong direction. Their system follows rule-sense rather than value-sense. In this book, Mr. Kassa proposes reengineered value analysis/value engineering (VA/VE) as the way to deliver s




Value Analysis in Design


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Value Engineering


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After more than 50 years as a manager and VE pioneer, Richard J. Park presents Value Engineering: A Plan for Invention. Park demonstrates how to adopt VE as a thinking process that can enable you to increase your problem solving skills, cultivate innovation, reduce costs, improve productivity, and more. Features




Value Analysis


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This book is about value, about the value of a car you want to buy, a workbench you decide to make, or a house you want to sell. It will be of interest to those industrial managers who must increase gross margins despite higher wages and material costs and to design engineers, buyers, cost accountants, quality specialists, industrial engineers, and those men in Marketing and Finance who have their fingers on the pulse of a product value.