Factory Physics

by Hopp, Wallace J.; Spearman, Mark L.

• ISBN13: 9780256247954
• ISBN10: 0256247951
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-04-04
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin

Summary

Comprehensive Introduction to Manufacturing Management text covering the behavior laws at work in factories. Examines operating policies and strategic objectives. Hopp presents the concepts of manufacturing processes and controls within a "physics" or "laws of nature" analogy--a novel approach. There is enough quantitative material for an engineer's course, as well as narrative that a management major can understand and apply.

Table of Contents

PART I THE LESSONS OF HISTORY

1. Manufacturing in America

2. Inventory Control: From EOQ to RDP

3. The MRP Crusade

4. The JIT Revolution

5. What Went Wrong

PART II FACTORY PHYSICS

6. A Science of Manufacturing

7. Basic Factory Dynamics

8. Variability Basics

9. The Corrupting Influence of Variability

10. Push and Pull Production Systems

11. The Human Element in Operations Management

12. Total Quality Manufacturing

PART III PRINCIPLES IN PRACTICE

13. A Pull Planning Framework

14. Shop Floor Control

15. Production Scheduling

16. Aggregate and Workforce Planning

17. Supply Chain Management

18. Capacity Management

19. Synthesis-Pulling It All Together

References

Index