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A Day In The Life of Quality - Honda
Sam Kennedy, Honda North America's Manufacturing Quality Engineer conducts a personal tour of Honda's East Liberty, Ohio Auto Assembly Facility. Sam directs the viewers to every aspect of quality at Honda's state of the art facility. Featured on this program is a problem that occurred with a trunk s... read more
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Aluminum Bat Production at Louisville Slugger
Louisville Slugger has been the number one name in wooden baseball bats for 150 years, but then the unthinkable happened. A new material revolutionized baseball, the aluminum bat. This Kentucky giant new everything there was to know about wood, and wood manufacturing, but nothing about aluminum. The... read more
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Business Strategy: Featuring BuyCostumes.com
Since it's startup in 1999, BuyCostumes.com has become the largest internet costume retailer in the world, serving more than 50 countries and attracting 2 million web visitors per month. They ship more that one million costumes and masks in the Halloween season alone. Inc. Magazine has listed BuyCos... read more
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Cellular Manufacturing: Featuring Aquion
Aquion, an international water treatment product company, is headquartered just outside of Chicago, Illinois. Their production process is a great example of cellular manufacturing and how it can benefit the company and customers. The floor of the manufacturing plant is organized to have a good flow ... read more
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Continuous Process: Featuring BP
Located in Whiting, Indiana, BP processes 400,000 barrels of crude oil per day. The refinery uses a continuous production process to maximize output. Managed from a central control center, real-time data is used to manage every aspect of the refinery. This video shows the step the crude oil goes thr... read more
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Distributing Products: Featuring DHL
DHL is the number one international express delivery service. Every year, the company carries more than one billion shipments with 4,400 local offices, 238 gateways, and 450 hubs, warehouses and terminals. 72,000 vehicles service more than 120,000 destinations in over 200 countries and territories w... read more
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Enterprise Resource Planning Management: Louisville Slugger
Louisville Slugger, although being synonymous with baseball bats, had problems with inefficiency. Their answer was to use a new ERP (enterprise resource planning) system. This program shows the many advantages of ERP, along with the problems Louisville Sluggers had to overcome. John Hillerich, CEO, ... read more
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Facing Economic Challenges: Featuring BP Alternative Energy
Beyond Petroleum. You've seen the tagline in advertising for BP. But like most people, you probably think of BP as a company which just refines oil and sells gasoline. What does beyond petroleum mean? And what forces cause a company to reorganize its business strategies? In the late '90s, BP underwe... read more
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Ford: The Renaissance of the U.S. Auto Industry
The world's first moving automobile assembly line began Model T production in 1913 at Ford's Highland Park, Michigan plant. In 1914, Ford began Model T production in Chicago. Today, Ford's Chicago Assembly Plant features the newest flexible machine tooling and lean manufacturing strategies. They com... read more
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The Function of Management
The four management functions (planning, organizing/staffing, leading, and controlling) are illustrated with short company examples in this video. In addition, the three different types of managerial skills are differentiated (technical, interpersonal/communication, and conceptual/ decision making).... read more
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Global Strategic Planning
This program defines the International Communication market. Using France Telecom as a prime example, the growth and expansion is explained with the use of graphs. The Global Strategic Planning Process is detailed in 7 steps, also described are the challenges and how they were met.
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Global Strategy
In order to meet the challenges of the future and effectively use world resources to compete, Ford Motor Company put in place a worldwide team effort in the design, production, and marketing of their cars. They are also involved in dealing with environmental concerns as well as operating financial s... read more
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