Book Description
The authors document an approach to TPM planning and deployment that modifies the Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance 12-step process to accommodate the experiences of North American plants. They include details and advice on specific deployment steps, OEE calculation methodology, and autonomous maintenance deployment. This book shows how to make TPM work in unionized plants and how to position TPM to support and complement other strategic manufacturing improvement initiatives. More than just an implementation guide, it's actually a testimonial of proven TPM success in North American companies through the adoption of "best in class" manufacturing practices.
Customer Reviews:
Good book for management who want to implement TPM.......2005-10-22
Good book if you're interested in (implementing) TPM. The book is very easy to read and does not keep repeating itself. Basically TPM is a(n) (big) extension on Keizen Teian and it might be useful to read a book on that subject as well, but is not necessary to understand the book. The book reviews all the steps how to come to a TPM system, especially the part on the preconditions is interesting, because based on my own experience this help your organization already a lot. The appendix contains a master plan for implementing TPM. In my opinion it is a good start but a more detailed checklist would have been better, but you can't have it all.
TMP.......1999-03-24
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Book Description
Shows how TPM can be implemented by modifying many of the standard techniques and programs currently used in the United States. Helps organizations optimize the effective use of corporate assets in order to maintain a competitive advantage in their respective marketplaces.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent introduction to maintenance and TPM.......2002-07-11
"Total Productive Maintenance: An American Approach" provides the reader with a good introduction to both TPM and maintenance in general. The author recognizes that most U.S. companies do not have the prerequisites for TPM - a work order system, preventive maintenance schedules, CMMS, inventory controls, etc. - adequately implemented and wisely chooses to cover these topics in some detail before discussing TPM implementation. In doing so, he provides the reader with a wonderful introduction to maintenance management.
Typical of Terry Wireman, the book is written in no-nonsense language that gets straight to the point. He resists the temptation to include unnecessary topics and details, and thus is able to adequately cover TPM and many of the maintenance basics in only 186 pages - a true achievement. In addition, Wireman includes several useful tools, such as a maintenance organization maturity grid, a list of typical metrics with benchmarks, and a business case template.
This book is a worthwhile read for anybody involved in maintenance.
tpm
July 10, 2002
Customer Reviews:
Scottie.......2007-09-26
This is the best book I've found that helps to organize the integration space within the industry. This book has helped to organize my thoughts and communicate with others effectively on how to leverage integration patterns. I highly recommend this book to help obtain a foundational understaning of the integration space.
Excellent patterns book.......2007-08-28
Upon recently changing jobs and focusing on messaging design and architecture, I was steered toward this book by my peers. Without getting into too much detail, before joining my new team, I had never heard of patterns (came from a product support area), much less asynchronous messaging design. Needless to say, this book has been invaluable in my learning process as well as conveying our direction to others.
This book is written in such a way that it is very intuitive. Diagrams help support the concepts and code examples as well.
I would highly recommend this as a must read/reference guide for anyone designing messaging solutions.
Great book for messaging pattern understanding.......2007-08-27
This is a fantastic book if you are looking for patterns to base your messaging designs and architecture around. The way this book goes about explaining some of the asynchronous messaging patterns seemed to provide a great deal of benefit to developers and designers who were stuck in the synchronous way of doing things. Great explanations and illustrations, would recommend to anyone researching EAI or ESB technologies or just a more structured, efficient way of messaging in general.
Enterprise Application Integration .......2007-07-29
I've been using the patterns in this book for several years now. These patterns help me to focus on the problems my customers need solved rather than what technology to use. This has helped to produce numerous successful systems and these patterns have consequently become the basis for many architecural redesign efforts at my company.
The Bible for Enterprise Application Integration.......2007-07-12
As a developer working on application integration for the last 5 years I am so thrilled about this purchase. Just started out reading and though I feel a little overwhelmed I can so much relate to all the patterns being discussed. Its being tough to digest and register the terminologies but I am sure I will get there as I progress. Definitely the best technical books I have ever purchased and is must have for any one who is involved with application integration !
Book Description
"This book...gives EAI architects and developers the opportunity to learn directly from the authority on distributed computing, EAI, and CORBA." -David S. Linthicum Chief Technology Officer, SAGA Software, Inc.
In this book a CORBA pioneer provides proven, cost-effective techniques for integrating enterprise applications (including legacy applications) into modern, multiplatform systems. He also offers valuable advice and guidance on how to build new CORBA-based applications using the latest features of CORBA 3 . * Articles on related topics
* Continually maintained ORB and integration server, vendor, and product comparisons
* A dynamic discussion group on architectural best practices
Customer Reviews:
CORBA as an EAI-enabling technology.......2000-06-18
This book gives a very good overview of Enterprise Application Integration(EAI) and about the methods and the techniques for approaching EAI successfully. The main thing is about the role of CORBA as an EAI-enabling technology and the domains where EAI needs. The later chapters explains the latest additions in the evolving CORBA technology apart from some precious real world examples towards its goal. It is a very useful book for those who are to use CORBA as a viable integrating technology.
Wow! Finally a CORBA Book I can understand!.......1999-12-28
Excellent! Worth every penny. I especially liked the chapter on security...
Customer Reviews:
Essential templates to integration.......2005-02-06
The statement on the last page, "This book is not intended to be a full blown integration methodology", holds true. This book is essentially a walkthrough of the provided document templates (see Appendix and the included CD) and provides only limited information about how to use or implement an integration methodology. In fact, the templates are the main reason to buy the book, but don't expect to read about a tried and tested integration methodology or (unfortunately) how to develop an enterprise integration architecture.
The authors do include a fair number of 'lessons learned', but they are scattered across a very repetitive book, so don't assume you can easily find them again. I found the authors' choice of 'important lessons' odd at times. For example, section 8.3 makes some key points about metadata for integration architecture, but the points only feature in the standard text whereas a description about XML is highlighted in a framed box. That really seemed like a waste of two pages.
The second key part of the book is the "Integration Road Map" first introduced on page 11. The road map (not to be confused with a methodology!) is meant as a "step-by-step" guide to implement a reference framework based on the provided templates. Incidentally, it also serves as a reading guide to the book.
The problem with the road map is that it fails to explain how the individual activities (read: templates) hands together, i.e., they lack an obvious way to link the templates together into a coherent architecture description. This is why the book falls somewhat short of the stated goal of demonstrating how to document a reference integration architecture. 'Disjointed' is the word I was looking for.
The authors' have focused on what the templates should describe rather than how the templates describe a certain view or aspect of the enterprise integration to ensure a consistent end-to-end architecture. "Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond" is a good reference on how to do this.
Oh, and before I finish. The book's constant reference to importance of building "re-useable" components is not a bad thing, but just remember that good re-useable software components only come from the knowledge of what and how people will re-use them - guessing will almost certainly only lead to wasted development effort and undermine the business' confidence in the IT department or vendor.
Elegant, Easy to Read, Good Primer for Managers.......2004-12-13
If you are a manager to whom information technologists report, or a manager that employs technical advisors who in turn help oversee varied IT procurements and implementations, then this book is an ideal primer. It can also be scary, because I will wager than in 7 out of 10 cases, the technical experts are not pursuing the enterprise integration fundamentals that this book outlines.
Both authors are strong in their own right. The book bring together Bill Ruh, former MITRE, MITRETEK, and Concepts 5 guru, today the global manager for CISCO AONS, who is updating his 2000 book on the topic, with Beth Gold-Bernstein, who has consulted, lectured, and written on this topic, and has her own book titled "Enterprise Integration: A Practical Approach."
I regard the book, and the topic, as a watershed between the old days of configuration management and a focus on data that was largely within internal custody, and today, when real-time data integration and exploitation is required across both all internal points (i.e. including the 85% that is in emails and hard drives) and external points--not just the web, but supplier, buyer, regulatory, and other databases.
I recommend this book for managers in part because the book itself is quite clear on the fact that information technology by itself, no matter how much money is thrown at it, will not achieve enterprise information integration. Management mind-sets, management metrics, management enforcement of standards and compliance with the strategic direction implied by enterprise integration, are all required.
Early in the book there are important references to both scale and speed, with the key difference between the 1990's and today being that instead of humans accessing the data, there now much more machine to machine communication and sharing, and this requires hyper-speed. There is also much more focus on event-driven information actions, with Delta Airlines being cited as a very good case study--the system must be able to take many autonomous actions triggered by an event (e.g. an airplane more than 15 minutes late, with repercussions across gate management, luggage management, connections management, catering management, etc.). Zero latency, real-time enterprise, and event-driven information transactions are among the buzz words.
The case study of CISCO on page 6 grabbed me early on--my primary focus is on the Global War on Terror (GWOT), and reading about CISCO's move to real-time metrics (this book is *very* strong on metrics, which I take to be a very good thing) and real-time decision making and course corrections, I was thinking to myself that CISCO is to information as special operations are to terror. So when CISCO doubled productivity, cut costs by 30%, and made daily reporting the norm, I say to myself: okay, now let's see that in GWOT....this book is Ref A in answering that challenge. Another case study, on FedEx using hand-held devices as both points of data entry in the field, and end points for data value to the field, also struck me as relevant to GWOT.
Throughout the book, one of its own phrases: "people are the most expensive part of any system," keeps resonating, because everything in here is about either increasing productivity or reducing the time-cost of information transactions. This book also has a very healthy focus on information sharing across all boundaries, with appropriate security, privacy, and legal attributes for each transaction.
Standards receive heavy emphasis throughout.
The book is slightly dated on the topic of automated metastandards and semantic data definitions, but I know the authors to be personally very engaged in the very latest developments surrounding semantic web and synthetic information architectures and other related automated assignments of meaning, so I take this to be primarily an issue of timing--the book had to be put to bed.
The chapters on Information Integration Architecture and on Information Integration, the ones I was most looking forward to reading, strike me as the least developed among the many excellent parts of this book. In part this is because Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is just coming of age, and truly scalable solutions to the challenge of managing global multi-media multi-lingual unstructured information data (Cf. InfoSphere AB in Sweden) are just now coming into being. This chapter does provide an important itemization of key organizations responsible for metadata standards, and lays out a framework for establishing "who needs to know what when" as part of the manager's contribution to the over-all enterprise integration planning process. These two chapters excel in pointing out that information management is about ensuring long-term data value, allowing for reachback over time and space.
In its conclusion the book makes reference to turf wars, training, reducing redundancy, reducing reliance on proprietary technologies with lock-in costs, finding a return on assets, and creating a culture of reuse. The last hundred pages of the book, and the CD-ROM, provide templates that any manager could reasonably demand of their technical advisors. I opened these up and found them very useful, to the point of being worth at least a week if not more of man-time, and hence easily repaying the price of the book many times over.
The bibliography is good and the index has been thoughtfully developed. I recommend this book to anyone who deals with global information in any form, but especially to managers who might be wondering if their IT people have any clue as to where they are taking the enterprise and its information. This book also strikes me a superb textbook, both for undergraduates as a primer, and for graduates as a foundation for a more nuanced discussion. For myself, it was "just enough, just in time" information, exactly what I wanted and needed in my specific context.
Great book on a timely topic!.......2004-12-03
Nothing is hotter in IT right now than integration. The authors have done a great job in not only explaining the term "enterprise integration," but arguing that it's as much a business concept as it is a technological one. The short case-study examples propel the text forward and give it a real-world credibility. The authors have obviously walked the integration walk, and their book is an effective testimonial to their experience.
Jill Dyche
Author of The CRM Handbook and eData
Book Description
Get expert guidance on how to exploit EAI tools and approaches to share data, applications, and business processes within an organization. The authors#151;senior software architects with extensive experience building enterprise-level integration solutions#151;turn the conceptual foundation of enterprise integration into real-world design and development approaches for Microsoft- BizTalk- Server and the Microsoft .NET Framework. Architects and developers will learn how to address common enterprise application integration challenges, avoid pitfalls, and apply best practices for making better design decisions#151;and reducing development complexity and costs. Plus, you can download all the book's code samples to study or adapt for your own projects.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent book Must read is you integrate on MSFT OS.......2004-10-28
I found this book to be very helpful with regards to Application Integration using the Microsft platform. The authors do a great job of walking the reader through the in's and out's of making disparate applications work and the potential and inevitable roadblocks that happen when undertaking these type of projects. This is a must read if you work in the Microsoft environment.
The best book for enterprise integration on Microsoft side.......2004-09-30
I am a EI developer/consultant for ERP solutions. Let me tell you. This is the best book for you to learn the big picture of enterprise integration on Microsoft side. It is well write and precise. A lot of useful codes. This is for Microsoft technology only. It is not for Java enterprise though. I consider it the best book in my collection.
Average customer rating:
- It's very good book
- What a waste of time and money
- High-level Overview
- A good summary of the complex issue of enterprise systems
- Important topic, but superficial treatment!
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In an effort to become more flexible and competitive, companies are migrating from legacy systems to integrated business management package software products. These products represent the future for companies that need to streamline their business processes and improve the sharing of information in order to compete in the rapidly evolving business world. Yet adopting a package software solution is not a process to be taken lightly, and this critical change can represent a tremendous investment of time and resources.
Most corporate officers charged with purchasing package software products are not experienced buyers, and there is very little information available to guide you through this process. Enterprise-Wide Software Solutions is the thorough tutorial and lasting reference you need to help you implement, use, and manage these powerful tools. This book provides a basis for planning and managing expectations among all relevant groups-corporate management, information technology staff, users, outside consultants, and the software vendor.
Companies are investing significant amounts of money and time to implement business package solutions. This book helps you reduce these costs and hours to more reasonable levels. Crucial topics-budgeting, project team organization, cost-justification, customization, outsourcing, reengineering, testing, training, and more-are covered in detail, allowing you to concentrate on the selection process, implementation strategy, and package software product that is best for your company.
Customer Reviews:
It's very good book.......2003-09-18
This book is very useful for choose right ERP package and implementation.
What a waste of time and money.......2001-01-14
As someone involved in the consulting area for many years, I was unable to find any new idea that would make worthwhile to spend money in this book. Almost everything that is mentioned here can be grabbed from free articles availables in Internet,about this subject. Additionally, there are a good number of books that will help you much more to plan and implement ERP's. Last, but not least, the book only have a handful of small pictures and tables. Unacceptable for a modern book about business and technology topics.
High-level Overview.......2000-09-27
This book provides a high-level overview of many of the issues surrounding an ERP implementation. However, the coverage is superficial and repetitive. I think a 10-page summary of this material would be much more useful than this 200-page book. Often I felt like the book was more of an advertisement for a consulting company than a serious treatment of the issues involved in implementing an ERP system. Still, it may help one who is inexperienced in this area to know some of the important questions to ask before and during the implementation.
A good summary of the complex issue of enterprise systems.......1999-10-06
This book is a good overview of all of the issues related to the selection and implementation of enterprise systems. I have purchased several copies of the book and distributed them to potential clients. I use the book as a gift during my seminars.
The book, however, does not go into a lot of details on such critical issues such as change management and business case development for the project.
This is a good introduction book and is an easy read. I recommend it for readers who want to understand the issues of ERP at a high level.
Important topic, but superficial treatment!.......1999-07-12
This book identifies all the important areas in enterpise software package implementation. However, I was really disappointed with the superficial treatment overall. Much of the stuff looks old - material that has been around in books on project management for a long long time. It would have been invaluable if the author had focused in detail on the two key areas (package selection and package implementation) and provided more specific tools/techniques etc.
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