From the Floor Up

You already run projects. You may not call them that. When the line has to change over by midnight, when a new press lands on the floor, when the schedule falls apart on a Friday afternoon - that's project work. And nobody ever handed you a manual for it. Until now. From the Floor Up: Project Management for Manufacturing translates project management into shop-floor language. Across 16 hands-on modules, you'll learn to plan work, build schedules, run huddles that actually work, handle risk, and lead people - all through a simple five-step loop: Read, Check, Decide, Apply, Watch. Every module comes with a quick quiz, a real-world scenario from the floor, and a video script for training your crew. You'll also get fillable templates, a full glossary, and a 100-question practice bank to lock in everything you've learned. No theory for theory's sake. No corporate jargon. Just practical tools from someone who has spent more than 40 years in manufacturing - from general labor to middle management, in plastics and metals - and lived every lesson in this book.