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• QUICK CHANGE OVER IN THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY
  The Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED) technique although originated in the automobile industry has proved to be a major threshold in various other industries also.

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• Shigeo Shingo and his Revolutionary SMED
  A Revolution in Manufacturing. It is rightly said “Necessity is the Mother of Invention”. This is what led Dr. Shigeo Shingo, a manufacturing expert who served as consultant in TOYOTA and several other Japanese Companies and is widely known as the father of Toyota production, to think of a methodology that can reduce, if not totallyeliminate, any wastage in the manufacturing process.

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• New chapter in story of changing fortunes
  Don Grover, the boss of Dymocks, doesn't like fiction. Never has, never will. The retailer, not an avid reader in general, enjoys the occasional biography and history book, ''apart from anything that's work-related, which probably makes up most of my reading''.

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• iPads and Kindles force Newspapers further away from Print
  Economics of the digital world are only too evident to the press as handheld devices strike a death knell for old business models. The push for digital readers have seen newspapers like the Daily Mail win 5m unique visitors a day – compared with its printed sale of 2m – but struggle to generate revenues to match.

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• Optimism keeps Local Booksellers afloat through Digital Revolution
  Flipping through some books spread on a table in the middle of Old Firehouse Books in Old Town on Tuesday, Rebekah Behr said she was shopping for Christmas presents at a local bookstore mainly for one reason: "This is my stepson's favorite store," she said.

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