Best industrial relations business books according to redditors

I think automation will lead to radical abundance, openness, and decentralization (checkout /r/Rad_decentralization). Quite the opposite of a socialist state controlling production, but also a greatly reduced role of capital. Libertarian Socialism probably.

Chris Andersen's books convinced me of this, [Makers: The New Industrial Revolution] (http://www.amazon.com/Makers-The-New-Industrial-Revolution-ebook/dp/B0083DJUMA) and [Free: The Future of a Radical Price] (http://www.amazon.com/Free-Future-Radical-Chris-Anderson-ebook/dp/B002DYJR4G). We're going to see the sort of market forces that upended the news and music industries when they went digital soon applied to physical goods. As Anderson says, atoms may soon become basically free like bits.

As more and more product designs become digitized in a way where 3D printers and similar technologies can manufacture them, openness becomes almost inevitable because it's nearly impossible to stop piracy (like with music). Near complete automation, combined with open designs, drives costs towards zero.

Anderson talks about how information becoming free on the Internet made a lot of classic economics wrong. Reputation instead of capital largely became valuable as the cost of serving a single customer was too small to care about charging for. Ads turn reputation into capital, but reputation is what really matters. The open source world largely operates off reputation too, and we may compete more for the dopamine kick of up-votes than dollars in the future.

Affordable 3D printing and related technologies are handing the means of production over to the people. The need for centralized capital-heavy or state controlled manufacturing is disappearing.

I'm a big proponent of a Basic Income to get us there. Whether it'd be a fair system in the long run, I'm not sure.

This book discusses why the Germans fought to the end, it should have evidence/sources that discusses reports from the population and their attitude toward the war, etc.

If you watch one guy long enough you'll start picking up the lingo yourself. Tom Lipton is where I started and I think he and Abom are really the most helpful talking about stuff for setups, basic milling/lathe technique, etc. Tom also wrote a book that's a great read to get started with all kinds of this work.
EDIT - FYI I'm now a full-time hobbyist and part-time odd job shop with mill and lathe at home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmds8R7lyw

Economics and Environment: A Reconciliation is a book consisting many articles from various authors on environmental problems and free market/libertarian solutions.

Also I'd suggest this book. It approaches from a technological/innovational perspective.

Control Chart
This a rolling chart that indicates the status of a process. It is created using data sampling and statistics. There are various types and methods. Most 'SPC' will have control charts typically 'XBar and R' charts. These look at the sample average 'XBar' and the range 'R' of the data. You can infer decisions about the process such as historical trends and if a statistically significant deviation from historical running parameters has occurred.

A DOE or designed experiment is simply put an experiment that attempts to control for all possible combinations of interactions. These are split into 'factors' and 'levels' - what we vary.These experiments are useful when attempting to identify a root cause of a process related quality issue. They also get exponentially larger as the factors increase. We can utilize statistics to identify significant correlation between factors and quality defects.

Six Sigma is a problem solving methodology used widely through industry. It is not a complete SPC solution. It focuses on a short term project typically that can make a measurable improvement. Six Sigma is formed up of Yellow- novice, Green - Project leader (most common) and Black/Master Black belts (least common, manages multiple or high value projects) Six Sigma utilizes or implements SPC and many other tools such as DIMAIC, SIPOC, pareto charts, to perform root cause analysis or improvements. Here is a link to a cheap useful tool in this area:
http://www.amazon.com/Lean-Six-Sigma-Pocket-Toolbook/dp/0071441190/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1421988835&sr=8-1&keywords=six+sigma+pocket+toolbook

The college textbook for my SPC class is "Statistical Quality Control" authored by Montgomery

I second the recommendation of The Healing of America, and would also recommend Money Driven Medicine by Maggie Mahar. Both predate the ACA but have great explanations of how and why the U.S. System is the way it is.

I know you want a quick and easy answer, and there are lots of quick and easy answers that will be offered to you by fellow redditors. But there are also quick, and sensible-sounding rebuttals to all of them.

So, if you really want to understand the reason why market economics is an extremely bad model for a nation's health care system I recommend reading Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much by Maggie Mahar.

The Healing of America by T. R. Reid is also very good and is shorter and easier to read, but it doesn't go into the same depth when it comes to the economic details.

Here are some of the metrics producing formulas a maintenance/reliability engineer can benefit from being familiar with.

http://www.six-sigma-material.com/TPM.html

There are also some good books here are three that I use:
Uptime: Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management, Third Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/1482252376/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_hQdEDbJED1HVW

Reliability-Centered Maintenance Second Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/0831131462/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_UQdEDbZMFWPZT

Maintenance Best Practices https://www.amazon.com/dp/0831134348/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_dRdEDbZ4QH9YH

How big is your company, and when was it started?

You need to figure out WHY the shop floor supervisors aren’t stepping up. IMO, lean doesn’t work long term in a “we have a lean department” type setup. Lean is everyone at all times. Getting to that point is why most companies fail.

How do you get supervisors on board? You tackle and fix problems that make their life easier/better. You must show them the value before they will begin doing it themselves.

I’m very skeptical your company’s approach will work. Has anyone other than you received training? It’s great to want others to take ownership, but you must know they understand the direction to go when they have the choice.


Try this book to give you some better idea of what this process might look like.

Leading the Lean Enterprise Transformation
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1439859876/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_tLkMDbWFJ06NN

> Apparently I am a rube. First Elio, now this.

Then, here's the book for you:

https://www.amazon.com/Fraud-Prevention-David-Meade-ebook/dp/B00CMJO7U6/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8


"It evidently was written by someone who's never used anything more sophisticated than a camera phone and contained no useful information."

They probably read this book before they wrote that photography book:

https://www.amazon.com/Research-Writers-David-Meade-ebook/dp/B00E0MKDFQ/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

This is what Paul Elio needs to buy before he starts production:

https://www.amazon.com/Financial-Manufacturing-Integration-Optimization-Application/dp/0849391857/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1506430289&sr=1-1&keywords=david+Meade+Lean+Manufacturing

Lots of great answers here!
For reading, check out Machine Shop Trade Secrets. It's illustrated, gives basic advice to apprentice machinists about how to fixture and approach machining problems, and even has a section "Help for Engineers" that has good design advice for you to keep machinists happy.

Crossing the Chasm

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Tom Lipton's also got a couple of books that are a damn good read:

http://www.amazon.com/Metalworking-Sink-Swim-Machinists-Fabricators/dp/0831133627/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1404504767&sr=8-2&keywords=tom+lipton

http://www.amazon.com/Metalworking-Doing-Better-Tom-Lipton/dp/0831134763/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1404504767&sr=8-1&keywords=tom+lipton

Here's one.

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I learned a lot from a guy on YouTube, mrpete222. He’s got some good how-to videos and I’m sure there are many other good channels. This book: Machine Shop Trade Secrets https://www.amazon.com/dp/0831134771/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_kwZxCb75W3RY8 is good to have around the shop too.

Also try building one of these: http://www.john-tom.com/html/SteamPlans.html

Some of them will force you to think outside the box and or use methods you don’t commonly use. They’re nice practice pieces that you’ll keep for a long time :) good luck!

I strongly recommend checking out this book by Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth. It focuses more on Visual Management than Lean per se but the principles she touches on are entirely applicable to Lean and all of it's initiatives. I cannot properly express how impactful this book has been in the 5S implementation at our site.

@JustARandomGerman Dude, I'm fucking rolling with laughter. My first Master's was in military history. My second Master's was in Operations Management at Central Connecticut State University, which due to the presence of Bob Emiliani and David Stec, has an extremely heavy emphasis on Lean. They won the Shingo for their book, Better Thinking, Better Results. I've spouted Lean at basically every job I've had, and I would not have expected to meet a kindred spirit on the HoI4 Reddit, of all places. I haven't read The Machine that Changed the World, but I have read Lean Thinking by them. I like Womack and Jones a lot more than I like Liker. Lean is fundamentally a binary system: Continuous Improvement, and Respect for People. Liker doesn't even mention Respect for People. It aggravates me to no end.

But yeah, you're entirely right. Japanese industry had nothing after World War II, so any waste was a potentially crippling, if not company-closing, issue. Sitting on a huge inventory of parts, like Henry Ford was wont to do, could choke out a company running on a shoestring. What gets me is that people think that Lean is only for low-mix, high-volume applications, and it's like, you clueless shits, Shingo wouldn't have had such a fetish for SMED and changeover time reduction if that was the case! The post-war Japanese auto environment was a very high mix, so Toyota had to adapt itself to handle a high-mix environment! You can see that I am agitated by these misconceptions by my exclamation marks!


In any case. Yes, Japan came from nothing to become an industrial powerhouse. The thing is, part of that came from the Training Within Industry that I mentioned earlier, which is rooted in Frederick Taylor's Principles of Scientific Management. That is available on Project Gutenberg, and while it is extremely dated, it is very interesting to see the earliest roots of Lean management. Check it out, it's less than 100 pages, and once you strip away the casual racism of the early 1900s, you can see the bones of Lean. As for TWI, I haven't found a good source for it, though I have found this book that supposedly covers it. I haven't read it yet, though, so I don't know how good it is. But still. TWI is what lead the US to be able to make a Liberty ship in less than a week, or churn out a B-24 every hour. It only kinda shows up in HoI4, what with the tooling and concentrated factory lines, but I still don't think that it encapsulates the boost that TWI gave to the US.


Right. I'll end it here, but by all means feel free to fire back with other Lean stuff. Somewhere, I might have some articles for you, if you're interested.

The disease mongers - the guys that are selling you sickness.
https://www.amazon.com/Selling-Sickness-Pharmaceutical-Companies-Patients/dp/156025856X

If you have been visiting this reddit-forum, you may have read some of my articles and seen videos of autonomous vehicles that I encounter in Silicon Valley. Well, my site has been the result of a book that - two years after the German book came out - is now available in English, with updated and new content.

The Last Driver's License Holder Has Already Been Born is available today, my publisher is McGrawHill. The book covers autonomous, electric, shared driving and connectivity, and most importantly, discusses the ramifications for cities, jobs, access individual mobility and much more. Because I live in the San Francisco Bay Area - a.k.a Silicon Valley - the hotbed of many of those developments, I spoke to many of the companies and experts, which might give you an interesting insight in the whole world of new mobility. The book's available at Amazon and any bookstore!