ABSTRACT

After more than 50 years as a manager and VE pioneer, Richard J. Park presents Value Engineering: A Plan for Invention. Park demonstrates how to adopt VE as a thinking process that can enable you to increase your problem solving skills, cultivate innovation, reduce costs, improve productivity, and more.

Features

part 1|35 pages

The World Around Us

chapter 1|6 pages

Background: From Fire to Flight

chapter 2|21 pages

Management Systems: Tools for the Toolbox

part 2|90 pages

The Economics of Profit

chapter 4|34 pages

Cost and Its Elements: The Driving Force

chapter 5|17 pages

Function: The Foundation of Clarity 1

chapter 6|25 pages

Value: A Matter of Opinion 1

chapter 7|10 pages

Quality: A Major Component of Value 1

part 3|63 pages

The Human Element

part 4|91 pages

The Sum of the Parts — A Practical Method

chapter 12|48 pages

Value Engineering: A Total System

chapter 14|29 pages

Examples: Winning Results