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Competitive manufacturing management : continuous improvement, lean production, customer-focused quality
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Boston : Irwin, 1998
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9780256217278

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30000005003516 TS155 N52 1998 Open Access Book Book
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Designed for courses in operations management or manufacturing planning and control, this text covers all aspects of modern manufacturing management with emphasis on strategic approaches such as JIT and TQM. It also covers Kanban systems, group technology and cellular manufacturing.


Table of Contents

Part 1 Continuous Improvement
Waste Elimination
Customer Focus
Chapter 1 Race without a Finish Line
Chapter 2 Fundamentals of Continuous Improvement
Chapter 3 Value Added and Waste Elimination
Chapter 4 Customer-Focused Quality
Part 2 Elements of Lean Production
Chapter 5 Small Lot Production
Chapter 6 Set-Up Time Reduction
Chapter 7 Maintaining and Improving Equipment
Chapter 8 Pull Production Systems
Chapter 9 Simplifying Products and Processes
Chapter 10 Analysis and Design of Workcells
Chapter 11 Standard Operations
Part 3 Quality Products, Quality Processes
Chapter 12 Quality of Design
Chapter 13 Inspection and Acceptance Sampling
Chapter 14 Statistical Process Control
Chapter 15 Systems for Zero Defects
Part 4 Simplified Production Planning and Control
Chapter 16 Achieving Level Production
Chapter 17 Balancing and Synchronizing Production
Chapter 18 Planning and Control in Pull Production
Part 5 Beyond The Production System
Chapter 19 Managing the Supply Chain
Chapter 20 Activity Based Costing
Chapter 21 Summary: Managing by Performance
Appendix MRP -Based Planning, Scheduling, and Control