World Class Manufacturing by Richard J Schonberger

World Class Manufacturing by Richard J Schonberger

Apply cloud design patterns to overcome real-world challenges by building scalable, secure, highly available, and cost-effective solutions

Key Features:

• Apply AWS Well-Architected Framework concepts to common real-world use cases
• Understand how to select AWS patterns and architectures that are best suited to your needs
• Ensure the security and stability of a solution without impacting cost or performance

Book Description:

One of the most popular cloud platforms in the world, Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers hundreds of services with thousands of features to help you build scalable cloud solutions; however, it can be overwhelming to navigate the vast number of services and decide which ones best suit your requirements. Whether you are an application architect, enterprise architect, developer, or operations engineer, this book will take you through AWS architectural patterns and guide you in selecting the most appropriate services for your projects.

AWS for Solutions Architects is a comprehensive guide that covers the essential concepts that you need to know for designing well-architected AWS solutions that solve the challenges organizations face daily. You'll get to grips with AWS architectural principles and patterns by implementing best practices and recommended techniques for real-world use cases. The book will show you how to enhance operational efficiency, security, reliability, performance, and cost-effectiveness using real-world examples.

By the end of this AWS book, you'll have gained a clear understanding of how to design AWS architectures using the most appropriate services to meet your organization's technological and business requirements.

What You Will Learn:

• Rationalize the selection of AWS as the right cloud provider for your organization
• Choose the most appropriate service from AWS for a particular use case or project
• Implement change and operations management
• Find out the right resource type and size to balance performance and efficiency
• Discover how to mitigate risk and enforce security, authentication, and authorization
• Identify common business scenarios and select the right reference architectures for them

Who this book is for:

This book is for application and enterprise architects, developers, and operations engineers who want to become well-versed with AWS architectural patterns, best practices, and advanced techniques to build scalable, secure, highly available, and cost-effective solutions in the cloud. Although existing AWS users will find this book most useful, it will also help potential users understand how leveraging AWS can benefit their organization.

Richard J. Schonberger is an independent researcher, author, and speaker--offering management-development and research presentations to industrial, service, and academic organizations worldwide (since 1981, involving over 300 hosting organizations). Originator of world-class manufacturing, Richard is author of some 175 process improvement-focused articles in periodicals ranging from general business (Harvard Business Review, Business Horizons, Wall Street Journal) to academic and functional (Journal of Operations, Quality Management Journal, Interfaces, Industrial Engineer, Cost Management, Quality Progress, Manufacturing Engineering), and the following books and videos.

• Best Practices in Lean Six Sigma Process Improvement: A Deeper Look . . . with Telling Evidence from the Leanness Studies (Wiley, 2008); Chinese translation forthcoming.
• Let's Fix It! Overcoming the Crisis in Manufacturing: How the World's Leading Manufacturers Were Seduced by Prosperity and Lost Their Way (Free Press, 2001).
• World Class Manufacturing--The Next Decade: Building Power, Strength, and Value (Free Press, 1996, 7 languages, 6 printings), 1998 Shingo Prize for manufacturing research - Chinese translation, (Simon & Shuster Asia, 1998); Taiwan Chinese translation (1999).
• SynchroService: The Innovative Way to Build a Dynasty of Customers (Irwin: 1994 with co-author)
• Building a Chain of Customers: Linking Business Functions to Create the World Class Company (Free Press, 1990, 5 languages, 28,000 copies sold).
• World Class Manufacturing Casebook: Implementing JIT and TQC (Free Press, 1987, 30,000 copies sold).
• World Class Manufacturing: The Lessons of Simplicity Applied (Free Press, 1986, 8 languages, 20 printings, 160,000 copies sold).
• Japanese Manufacturing Techniques: Nine Hidden Lessons in Simplicity (Free Press, 1982, 9 languages, 25 printings, 160,000 copies sold).
• 7 editions, Operations Management textbook - 7^th edition (2007) translated into Chinese (Irwin/McGraw-Hill; 5 editions co-authored).
• 12-tape video program, World Class Manufacturing, acclaimed by Quality Digest.

Schonberger was a practicing industrial engineer for eight years followed by 14 years as professor in management information systems and operations management at the University of Nebraska, during which he was designated George Cook Distinguished (chaired) Professor; later as affiliate professor, Management Science, University of Washington.

Schonberger is on editorial boards of Benchmarking, Cost Management, Target, the Value Chain Management Conference (Austria), and the executive advisory board of the Shingo Prize. He is director of the Global Leanness Studies and the World Class by Principles international benchmarking.