(SPC Press: Knoxville, TN) -- Reducing Production Costs: How to Convert Capability Indexes and Performance Indexes into Excess Costs of Production and Use, by Donald J. Wheeler (SPC Press, 2010), is written for everyone who is trying to do more with less. Using a proven methodology of reducing production costs, it shows you how to evaluate paybacks so that you can pick winning improvement strategies. This approach is built solely on the process data itself. The techniques remove the guesswork and replace it with practical tools built upon a rigorous theoretical foundation.

Some of this material has been available for years, but there has been no serious effort to integrate the tools into a conceptual framework that promotes their effective use. Wheeler’s new book accomplishes this important task.

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