Competitive Manufacturing Management : Continuous Improvement, Lean Production, Customer-Focused Quality

by Nicholas, John M.

• ISBN13: 9780256217278
• ISBN10: 0256217270
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-11-01
• Publisher: MCG
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Summary

This text is developed and written for an intermediate/advanced course in Operations Management or Manufacturing Planning and Control. This course will be found in the better undergraduate programs in the MBA curriculum as an elective, or in Industrial or manufacturing engineering departments. The text will compete indirectly with MRP based books such as Vollmann et al, Fogarty/Hoffman, or McLeavey/Narasimhan in most cases because of the business emphasis, but may also appeal to Nahmias and/or Hopp/Spearman adopters. The CMM text covers all aspects of modern manufacturing management with emphasis on the recent strategic approaches such as JIT and TQM and within a style and level of rigor appropriate for business students

Author Biography

John M. Nicholas Professor Of Management Science Loyola University-Chicago Nicholas received his PhD in Industrial Engineering from Northwestern University and has a BS in Aeronautical Engineering and an MBA in Systems Analysis from the University of Illinois. He is author of "Managing Business and Engineering Projects", a Prentice Hall text. Nicholas has taught for 18 years at Loyola, at the undergraduate and MBA level and has worked in or consulted with many companies, of note-Continental Illinois Bank, Price Waterhouse, ITT, and Lockheed Aircraft.

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 OperationsPart 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