• Remember Larry
• Meet Larry
• Know Larry.

1. Introduction
2. General Electric Years
3. Larry Miles -- Consultant
4. Recollections: A Helping Hand
5. Larry Miles "Retires"
6. Imperial Recognition
7. Belated Recognition
8. "Let Us Celebrate..."

This book is a textbook for the Foundation's 3-credit hour undergraduate course VE Theory for architecture and engineering students.

Part  1. History, application and definition
Part  2. Aesthetics and worth
Part  3. Beginning a value study
Part  4. Group dynamics and human relations
Part  5. FAST diagramming
Part  6. Creativity
Part  7. Judging ideas
Part  8. Complementary techniques
Part  9. Cost control and cost models
Part 10. Life cycle costing
Part 11. Implementation strategies

This book, written by the originator of value analysis and engineering technology, shows management and professional people specific steps to disciplined thinking, giving them 25 percent to 50 percent more efficiency -- both in the quality and quantity of their mental work.

1. Concepts and Approaches of Value Analysis and Engineering
2. All Cost is for Function
3. Evaluate the Function
4. Problem-setting System
5. Problem-solving System
6. Setting and Solving Management-decision-type Problems
7. Setting and Solving Services Problems
8. Results Accelerators
9. Using the System
10. Special Knowledge Required
11. Understanding the Decision Environment
12. Effect on Other Work in the Business
13. Effective Organization for Value Work
14. Essential Qualifications and Training for Value Analysts and Engineers
15. Work Content for the Value Analyst, Engineer, and Consultant
16. Motivation, Measurement, and Tests
17. Advanced Techniques
18. Using the System to Reduce Construction Costs
19. Problems for Assignment

This book is a revision of Carlos Fallon's 1970 book, Value Analysis to Improve Productivity. The 1990 edition emphasizes how productivity can be made more interesting and pleasant for the producers themselves, and how the mind power of the entire work force can be harvested to yield technological innovations and aesthetic advances beyond what was possible yesterday. This book offers 277 pages of the latest thinking about value.

1. Function of Value Analysis
2. The Nature of Value
3. Who Does Value Analysis
4. How is it Done
5. Information Phase
6. Analytic Phase
7. Creative Phase
8. Evaluation
9. Implementation
10. Directing to Operation
11. Fast Diagram 

Appendix A.  Mathematics of Resource Use
Appendix B.  Measurement
Appendix C.  Professional Foundations
Epilogue
Bibliography

The objective of this book is to explain how the value methodology can be applied to improve the value of software, including: regulations, procedures, business practices, management systems, paperwork practices, services and organizational structure. This text provides practical knowledge in specialized techniques used in value management applications such as: flow charting, function (FAST) diagramming, determining worth, creativity, weighted evaluation, cost estimating for systems, life cycle costing and human relations

This book is the text for a 3-credit hour undergraduate course for business and commerce students.

1. History and application
2. Government and non-profit use
3. Methodology
4. Function and FAST
5. Beginning a value study
6. Cost estimating
7. Group dymanics and human relations
8. Creativity
9. Judging ideas
10. Complementary techniques
11. Life cycle costing
12. Implementation strategies
13. Beginning a VM program

This book is similar to the VE Theory book but is oriented for use by manufacturing and industry. It provides the text for a 3-credit hour course for industrial engineering students.

1. Value Engineering: Beginning and Growth
2. Understanding the Value Concept
3. The Systematic Approach: VE Job Plan
4. Function Analysis
5. Group Dynamics: Teams and Teamwork
6. Value Engineering Methodology: Value Concepts, Tools and Technology
7. FAST Diagramming
8. Conducting the Value Engineering Study: Project Selection and Information Phase
9. Conducting the Value Engineering Study: The Middle Phases: Function Analysis and Idea Generation
10. Conducting the Value Engineering Study: Evaluation and Implementation
11. The Value Arena: Complementary Concepts
12. Value Engineering Management in an Industrial Setting
13. Case Study