Manufacturing Strategy, 1st Edition: How to Formulate and Implement a Winning Plan

By identifying one of seven process models appropriate for your business, you can determine the appropriate outputs and how to change to better process models as your business needs change. Learn the improvement techniques currently used in manufacturing in both people-oriented methods and machine-oriented improvement approaches.

Chapters

1. Manufacturing Outputs
2. Production Systems
3. Manufacturing Levers: Designing and Changing Production Systems
4. Competitive Analysis: Selecting the Best Production Systems
5. Level of Manufacturing Capacity
6. The Complete Framework for Formulating Manufacturing Strategy
7. Developing the Implementation Plan
8. Integrating Manufacturing Strategy and Business Strategy
9. Improvment Approaches in Manufacturing
10. Focus, Soft Technologies, Hard Technologies
11. Learning and the Product Life Cycle
12. Evaluation of Investments in Manufacturing
13. The Job Shop Production System
14. The Bach Flow Production System
15. The Flexible Manufacturing System, FMS
16. The Operator-Paced Line Flow Production System
17. The Just-In-Time (JIT) Production System
18. The Equipment-Paced Line Flow Production System
19. The Continuous Flow Production System