Production and Operations Analysis with Student CD-Rom

by Nahmias

• ISBN13: 9780072417418
• ISBN10: 0072417412
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-10
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin

Summary

This text provides a survey of the analytical methods used to support the functions of production and operations management. This latest edition continues to bring the most thorough coverage of cutting-edge quantitative models used in operations, while presenting it in a clean, easy to understand fashion. There are many new problems both solved and unsolved for students to comprehend the quantitative material of the book. Furthermore, we have enhanced the technology package of this book to have more applied learning of concepts and skills for students. Lastly, technology, such as the internet, ecommerce, etc has been added to reflect the changes in how business is conducted. This text reflects Steve Nahmias' extensive teaching background and experience in both business and engineering schools.

Table of Contents

Strategy and Competition	3	(55)
Present Worth Calculations	51	(4)
Forecasting	55	(58)
Forecast Errors for Moving Averages and Exponential Smoothing	106	(2)
Derivation of the Equations for the Slope and Intercept for Regression Analysis	108	(1)
Glossary of Notation for Chapter 2	109	(4)
Aggregate Planning	113	(80)
Glossary of Notation for Chapter 3	157	(36)
Liner Programming	161	(32)
Inventory Control Subject to Known Demand	193	(50)
Mathematical Derivations for Multiproduct Constrained EOQ Systems	239	(1)
Glossary of Notation for Chapter 4	240	(3)
Inventory Control Subject to Uncertain Demand	243	(62)
Notational Conventions and Probability Review	293	(1)
Additional Results and Extensions for the Newsboy Model	294	(2)
Derivation of the Optimal (Q, R) Policy	296	(1)
Probability Distributions for Inventory Management	297	(3)
Glossary of Notation for Chapter 5	300	(5)
Supply Chain Management	305	(50)
Push and Pull Production Control Systems: MRP and JIT	355	(58)
Optimal Lot Sizing for Time-Varying Demand	406	(4)
Glossary of Notation for Chapter 7	410	(3)
Operations Scheduling	413	(90)
Queuing Theory	473	(30)
Project Scheduling	503	(54)
Glossary of Notation for Chapter 9	554	(3)
Facilities Layout and Location	557	(78)
Finding Centroids	626	(2)
Computing Contour Lines	628	(7)
Quality and Assurance	635	(78)
Approximating Distributions	706	(2)
Glossary of Notation for Chapter 11 on Quality and Assurance	708	(5)
Reliability and Maintainability	713	(58)
Glossary of Notation on Reliability and Maintainability	767	(4)
Appendix: Table	771	(18)
Index	789