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Thomas Oberndorfer

Das Toyota Produktionssystem (TPS) ist eines der bekanntesten Produktionssysteme und wurde seit Jahrzehnten in zahlreichen Buchern und Artikeln analysiert und beschrieben. Die Hauptziele des Systems konnen als das Just in time Prinzip und die Anwendung der autonomen Automation angesehen werden. Diese zwei Grundsatze werden durch verschiedene Konzepte und Tools, wie zum Beispiel Kaizen unterstutzt. Das Toyota Produktionssystem wurde zu Beginn von der Automobilindustrie, in der auch der Ursprung liegt, aufgenommen, obwohl es in unterschiedlicher Form in allen Produktionsunternehmen eingesetzt werden kann. Das fuhrt zu der Frage wie sich die Situation bezuglich Verbreitung, Anwendung und Implementierung des TPS darstellt? Die Antwort darauf versucht der Autor im vorliegenden Werk basierend auf einer empirischen Untersuchung in osterreichischen Produktionsunternehmen zu geben. Ebenso wird eine aktuelle Darstellung des Toyota Produktionssystems und den einzelnen Elementen daraus gegeben.

Philip Jodidio

These days, green is the name of the game. There has never been so much interest in the ecological impact of buildings as there is today. This is not a negligible fact in the struggle to control pollution and in the search for responsible "sustainable" methods of construction. Buildings are among the heaviest consumers of natural resources and account for a significant portion of the greenhouse gas emissions that affect climate change. With global warming now a significant international political issue, architecture itself is on the brink of significant changes, where style and matters of aesthetics are placed in a secondary position behind issues of sustainability. At a certain time, "green" buildings were ugly and complicated affairs, usually multicolored as though an entire rainbow in one building might be sufficient to prove a concern for ecology. This is surely no longer the case as buildings published in this current volume demonstrate. However, it may be that green architecture...

Lora S. Irish

The 72 dragon patterns included in this guide cover all of the major types and traditions and can be used in a wide variety of media, including woodworking, quilting, painting, illustration, and computer graphics. The basics of dragon anatomy are covered, as are the details of dragon design, such as fire, scales, and fins.

Kiki Eldridge

Brochure design is a perennial in the world of marketing and graphic design, yet it can be challenging to execute successfully. This collection of the world’s best brochure design offers hundreds of ideas, pages of inspiration, and armloads of advice for professional graphic designers and students alike. Using a clean, unfussy presentation, this book is a highly visual collection of ideas for everything from choosing type to photo treatments, and everything in between. Rockport’s Best of Brochure Design series is a best seller the world over.

Oliver Garnett

Lu Shengzhong

Book DescriptionIn the 1980s, a number of Chinese artists came into their own, freed from the Cultural Revolution strictures that strictly dictated what was and was not acceptable art. In their search to get beyond classical styles and Socialist Realism,they alternately took their cues from Western Pop or from Chinese vernacular styles. Lu ShengZhong went the latter route, and his immersion in the native folk tradition of paper cutting has produced striking formal expressions of ideas both philosophicaland religious in nature. First Encounter includes ShengZhong's Great Peace and Tranquility and Poetry of Harmony , two floor-to-ceiling scrolls made of lacy, intricate red cutout forms pasted on a black ground. Handsomely stitched together in a traditional Chinese book-binding technique, this book reproduces both planning sketches and the finished work. Edited by Weiqing .~Foreword by Christophe W. Mao.~Introduction by Wu Hung. Paperback, 8.25 x 11 in./74 pgs /...

Paul Candler

Book DescriptionRaw, Boiled, and Cooked: Comics on the Verge highlights the show of the same name that took place at San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art. Inspired by Art Spiegelman's (Maus) groundbreaking comics anthology Raw, with all the artist's either former contributors or fans, the art here runs the gamut from surprising to shocking to surreally beautiful. Captured in full-color reproductions, this book showcases some of the most important comics being created today.

Courtney Davis

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Gary Groth

Book Description For the first time, TCJ devotes a volume to the most popular comics in the world: Manga . The now-annual Comics Journal Special Edition focuses this time on the phenomenal Manga (Japanese comics) invasion. In 2003, North American bookstore sales of Manga surged to an unprecedented $100 million?or 75% of the entire sales of comics! Which means it's time for The Comics Journal, the foremost magazine of iconoclastic criticism, to take a hard look at Japanese cartoonists and translated manga, and separate the wheat from the chaff. Our cover feature is Manga superstar Hideshi Hino, whose 30-year career and inimitable style have put him at the forefront of Japan's horror genre. 2004 promises to bethe year of Hino here in the States with the publication of English translations of all his major books starting in March with The Red Snake and Bug Boy. Hino will discuss his life and work in an exclusive interview and he will provide the original...

Bill Amend

Meet the Fox family: Roger, the sports-enthusiast father stuck in the middle rung of the corporate ladder. Andy, mother and mediator of the family. Always wanted lots of kids. Now knows better. Her gourmet specialty?A?tofu casserole. Peter has never known a food he couldn't eat, but otherwise is a typical high schooler. Inherited the sports nut gene from Roger. Paige. Egads, a freshman! Mall rat, Cosmo queen. Knows full well Mr. Right is right around the corner . . . or the next one . . . or the next. Jason is the youngest sibling. This warped little genius' favorite pastimes include tormenting his sister and get-rich-quick schemes. And finally, Quincy, Jason's iguana. Vomits on Paige's pillow when not sleeping or eating. What more could a 10 year old boy ask for? FoxTrot is a hugely popular comic strip, with twenty-three successful collections and nine treasuries. Appearing in over 1000 newspapers, three million FoxTrot books are in...