Download or read book Integrative Manufacturing Transforming the Organization Through People Process and Technology written by L. Scott Flaig and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization, quality, and time-based competition have combined with economic, social, political, and technological changes to alter the nature of manufacturing processes and companies. As a result, organizations must consistently meet the demands to reduce costs, defects, and waste while increasing productivity and responsiveness. Integrative Manufacturing provides an overview of strategic alternatives, advances in methodology and technology, breakthroughs in human resource management, managerial and operational processes, performance measurement, and more. This comprehensive resource details an integrative organizational approach and introduces a new paradigm, the "virtual enterprise", that your company can use to accomplish its improvement goals in all key functions and processes. Author L. Scott Flaig also shows you how companies such as Walgreens, General Dynamics, and Xerox are implementing exciting innovations that enhance profits and performance. With this all-in-one guide to integrated manufacturing, you can understand specific industry segment issues and develop highly flexible and integrated solutions, select appropriate strategies for integrating new technology and methodologies into your organization, and create measurable strategies that go beyond competitive advantage to secure your company's market position. Organizational transformation is a challenge that requires commitment and vision. Integrative Manufacturing provides the solution set for teamwork across the value chain through the integration of people, process, and technology. This thorough guide also identifies a dynamic and dependable manufacturing framework that will enable the enterprise to develop practicesand partnerships that focus on the touchstone of manufacturing success: customer satisfaction.

Download or read book Integrative Manufacturing Transforming the Organization Through People Process and Technology written by L. Scott Flaig and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization, quality, and time-based competition have combined with economic, social, political, and technological changes to alter the nature of manufacturing processes and companies. As a result, organizations must consistently meet the demands to reduce costs, defects, and waste while increasing productivity and responsiveness. Integrative Manufacturing provides an overview of strategic alternatives, advances in methodology and technology, breakthroughs in human resource management, managerial and operational processes, performance measurement, and more. This comprehensive resource details an integrative organizational approach and introduces a new paradigm, the "virtual enterprise", that your company can use to accomplish its improvement goals in all key functions and processes. Author L. Scott Flaig also shows you how companies such as Walgreens, General Dynamics, and Xerox are implementing exciting innovations that enhance profits and performance. With this all-in-one guide to integrated manufacturing, you can understand specific industry segment issues and develop highly flexible and integrated solutions, select appropriate strategies for integrating new technology and methodologies into your organization, and create measurable strategies that go beyond competitive advantage to secure your company's market position. Organizational transformation is a challenge that requires commitment and vision. Integrative Manufacturing provides the solution set for teamwork across the value chain through the integration of people, process, and technology. This thorough guide also identifies a dynamic and dependable manufacturing framework that will enable the enterprise to develop practicesand partnerships that focus on the touchstone of manufacturing success: customer satisfaction.

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Download or read book Organization and Management of Advanced Manufacturing written by Waldemar Karwowski and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1994-03-31 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes into account the effective use of human factors issues in advanced manufacturing which would make the difference between the failure or success of industrial corporations. International authorities describe how to implement methods and techniques, applicable on a global basis, into manufacturing and process industries where change is being brought about as they move to concurrent engineering formats of operation.

Download or read book Integrated Process Design and Development written by Dan L. Shunk and published by Irwin Professional Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrated Process Design and Development shows how to design and develop integrated processes consistent with the capabilities of the plant and its employees.

Download or read book Integrated Production and Inventory Management written by Thomas E. Vollmann and published by McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manufacturers who want to improve their competitive positions continually seek ways to leverage their manufacturing assets--particularly by integrating manufacturing planning and control systems with business functions and market requirements. This enables organizations to identify customer needs and respond with prompt, effective service. Integrated Production and Inventory Management is a practical, results-oriented resource that can help your organization achieve sound inventory management. The book's state-of-the-art concepts and proven inventory and production control approaches help you better understand how production and inventory management decisions can successfully support other enterprise objectives. Each central theme--master planning, inventory management, capacity management, material requirements planning, and just-in-time--reflects the latest manufacturing strategies and gives you practical methods for improving performance in the manufacturing process. You'll discover the most effective ways to build customer service using the latest inventory-monitoring procedures, reduce overhead costs--and refocus overhead activity to achieve competitive excellence, and enhance the coordination of distribution operations. Integrated Production and Inventory Management is a course book for the Certification in Integrated Resource Management (CIRM) certificate program offered to 80,000 members of the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS) and to other manufacturing professionals. By examining innovative processes and integrative approaches, however, this book is essential for anyone interested in revitalizing their manufacturing processes for success.

Download or read book Integrative Facilities Management written by John M. Burnham and published by Irwin Professional Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers ways to maximize a plant's capabilities, improve facilities and system design, and balance environmental, community, employee, and regulatory concerns.

Download or read book Integrated Distribution Management written by Christopher Gopal and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1993 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrated Distribution Management addresses the concepts, issues, and risks involved in designing efficient, integrated distribution processes. You'll also find: approaches for managing and measuring distribution operations, including order management, network management, and inventory management; information technology requirements for integrated distribution and advanced distribution methods used by leading-edge firms - and a look at the logistics enterprises that drive them.

Download or read book Managing Flexibility written by Sushil and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book provides a conceptual framework of managing flexibility in the areas of people, process, technology and business supported by researches/case applications in various types of flexibilities in business. The book is organized into following five parts: (i) Managing Flexibility; (ii) People Flexibility; (iii) Process Flexibility; (iv) Flexibility in Technology and Innovation Management; and (v) Business Flexibility. Managing flexibility at the level of people, process, technology and business encompasses the requirements of both choice and speed. The need for managing flexibility is growing to cope with the developments and challenges in the global business environment. This can be seen from reactive as well as proactive perspectives. Flexibility is a major dimension of business excellence and deals with a paradoxical view point such as stability and dynamism, continuity and change, centralization and decentralization, and so on. It needs to be managed at the levels of people, process, technology and various business functions and it is important to create flexibility at the level of people to create and manage flexibility in processes and technologies in order to support flexible business requirements.

Download or read book Sustainable Production Through Advanced Manufacturing Intelligent Automation and Work Integrated Learning written by J. Andersson and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collaboration between those working in product development and production is essential for successful product realization. The Swedish Production Academy (SPA) was founded in 2006 with the aim of driving and developing production research and higher education in Sweden, and increasing national cooperation in research and education within the area of production. This book presents the proceedings of SPS2024, the 11th Swedish Production Symposium, held from 23 to 26 April 2024 in Trollhättan, Sweden. The conference provided a platform for SPA members, as well as for professionals from industry and academia interested in production research and education from around the world, to share insights and ideas. The title and overarching theme of SPS2024 was Sustainable Production through Advanced Manufacturing, Intelligent Automation and Work Integrated Learning, and the conference emphasized stakeholder value, the societal role of industry, worker wellbeing, and environmental sustainability, in alignment with the European Commission's vision for the future of manufacturing. The 59 papers included here were accepted for publication and presentation at the symposium after a thorough review process. They are divided into 6 sections reflecting the thematic areas of the conference, which were: sustainable manufacturing, smart production and automation, digitalization for efficient product realization, circular production, industrial transformation for sustainability, and the integration of education and research. Highlighting the latest developments and advances in automation and sustainable production, the book will be of interest to all those working in the field.

Download or read book Digital Success A Holistic Approach to Digital Transformation for Enterprises and Manufacturers written by Alasdair Gilchrist and published by Alasdair Gilchrist. This book was released on 2018-11-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Digital Transformation, why is it so important and why do so many transformation projects fail? More importantly, what can we do to make our transformation initiative succeed? These are a few of the profound questions that we seek to answer in this book. The anomaly between the number of digital transformation being undertaken and the high failure rate may be due to not enough transformation initiatives taking a holistic approach that encompasses people, culture, organisations, processes, business strategy and objectives into the overall mix instead they are focusing largely on the technology. Therefore in this book we contemplate a holistic approach to digital transformation across the entire spectrum of the business from the perspective of an enterprise or manufacturer. Hence we start with people, culture and the need for agile business development when transforming processes, products and services or business models. We examine the how and why we align and tightly couple business objectives to transformation initiatives. Importantly, we examine the need for company-wide collaboration and integration of data, knowledge, processes and systems and the huge benefits initiatives such as data-democratization can deliver. Then we delve deeper into the specific drivers for successful transformation across a very broad range of business functions from the perspective of IT and Operations, Finance, HR, Sales & Marketing, Manufacturing, Inventory, Supply chain and Post-sales service. We also examine how technology and processes such as the IoT and advanced data analysis have brought about Industry 4.0 and the Smart Factory not through technology upgrades and point solutions but through a holistic approach to digital transformation. A holistic approach to digital transformation, places people, culture, knowledge, capabilities, and decision-making as the pillars supporting the overall organisation's business strategy, objectives and mission values that are built upon a foundation of technology and processes. Successful digital transformation initiatives do not lose their focus on the overarching business strategy and company objectives being the goal, it's not about technology it is about creating new business value at the strategic level. And in this book we will show you how to do it.What is Digital Transformation, why is it so important and why do so many transformation projects fail? More importantly, what can we do to make our transformation initiative succeed? These are a few of the profound questions that we seek to answer in this book. The anomaly between the number of digital transformation being undertaken and the high failure rate may be due to not enough transformation initiatives taking a holistic approach that encompasses people, culture, organisations, processes, business strategy and objectives into the overall mix instead they are focusing largely on the technology. Therefore in this book we contemplate a holistic approach to digital transformation across the entire spectrum of the business from the perspective of an enterprise or manufacturer. Hence we start with people, culture and the need for agile business development when transforming processes, products and services or business models. We examine the how and why we align and tightly couple business objectives to transformation initiatives. Importantly, we examine the need for company-wide collaboration and integration of data, knowledge, processes and systems and the huge benefits initiatives such as data-democratization can deliver. Then we delve deeper into the specific drivers for successful transformation across a very broad range of business functions from the perspective of IT and Operations, Finance, HR, Sales & Marketing, Manufacturing, Inventory, Supply chain and Post-sales service. We also examine how technology and processes such as the IoT and advanced data analysis have brought about Industry 4.0 and the Smart Factory not through technology upgrades and point solutions but through a holistic approach to digital transformation. A holistic approach to digital transformation, places people, culture, knowledge, capabilities, and decision-making as the pillars supporting the overall organisation's business strategy, objectives and mission values that are built upon a foundation of technology and processes. Successful digital transformation initiatives do not lose their focus on the overarching business strategy and company objectives being the goal, it's not about technology it is about creating new business value at the strategic level. And in this book we will show you how to do it.

Download or read book The Future of Smart Production for SMEs written by Ole Madsen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-28 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains and exemplifies how SMEs can embrace the Smart Production approach and technologies in order to gain a beneficiary outcome. The book describes the Smart Production vision for SMEs, as well as the method to get there. The concept behind the book is based on the long-term experience of the authors in researching and tackling problems of SMEs in the manufacturing sector. The book provides applied methods and obtained solutions in different branches and different sizes of SMEs, encompassing a broad survey of our markets and societies. The perspective is systemic/holistic and integrated including human, organizational, technological, and digital perspectives.

Download or read book Managing Information written by Gordon Bitter Davis and published by Irwin Professional Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing Information describes the underlying technologies associated with information systems and how they impact the entire organization.

Download or read book Purchasing written by Joseph Robert Carter and published by McGraw-Hill Trade. This book was released on 1993 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchasing offers an integrated approach for purchasing high-quality materials at the best prices.

Download or read book Marketing for the Manufacturer written by J. Paul Peter and published by McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manufacturers who want to remain viable in today's dynamic marketplace must have their fingers on the pulse of the ever-changing customer demands for quality products and services. Companies can no longer waste valuable time waiting for policies and plans to trickle down from executive boardrooms - consumers expect timely responses to their needs. J. Paul Peter explores the ways manufacturers can use the marketing function to initiate the alignment of manufacturing processes with customer demands. He gives you a detailed analysis of how marketing fits into various organizational structures and product management systems, bringing pertinent marketing and manufacturing issues to light. His logically flowing structure will guide you through the maze of product development, promotion, distribution, and pricing so you can formulate a successful manufacturing-marketing mix that augments customer responsiveness. Inside Marketing for the Manufacturer you will find methods for researching consumer markets and ways to adjust manufacturing, delivery, and inventory policies based on your findings, case studies that reveal real-world techniques for reconciling the differences between manufacturing and marketing functions, and specific strategies marketing professionals use to develop, implement, and measure their programs. Manufacturing managers of the future need to develop integrated solutions to problems that cross traditional functional boundaries. In order to effectively respond to customer demands, they must understand both the tools and concepts associated with the marketing function. The proactive marketing strategies presented in this book will help manufacturing professionals on all levelsheighten their competitive advantage and continuously anticipate, meet, and exceed the expectations of their customers.

Download or read book World class Accounting and Finance written by Carol Jean McNair and published by Business One Irwin/APICS Libra. This book was released on 1993 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World-Class Accounting and Finance offers nonfinancial people a working knowledge of basic and advanced accounting and finance principles.

Download or read book Production and Operations Management written by Richard B. Chase and published by McGraw-Hill/Irwin. This book was released on 1995 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: