Download or read book LEAN AND AGILE MANUFACTURING written by S. R. DEVADASAN and published by PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary fastidious companies are required to eliminate wastes and offer value-added products and services to the customers, which requirement is fulfilled by adopting the paradigm called ‘lean manufacturing’. On the other side, futuristic companies surge towards reaching the twenty-first century mission by reacting quickly in accordance with the dynamic demands of the modern customers, for which researchers have been developing a paradigm called ‘agile manufacturing’. Although various techniques and tools are applied, cohesive procedures are yet to be evolved to implement these paradigms systematically and successfully in companies. In this context, this book is evolved to address students, academics, practitioners and researchers for gaining theoretical, practical and research futuristic knowledge on lean and agile manufacturing paradigms. Organised in 18 chapters, the text opens with a historical overview of lean and agile manufacturing paradigms. It then discusses the lean manufacturing principles with their application procedures. The book comprehensively analyses the methods of implementation of lean manufacturing paradigm in both traditional and moderate organisations. It also gives an equal treatment to the implementation of agile manufacturing paradigm under four drivers such as management driver, technology driver, manufacturing strategy driver and competition driver through the adoption of appropriate agile manufacturing criteria. The book concludes with a discussion of lean and agile manufacturing paradigms from the perspectives of academia, researchers and practitioners. The text is well supported by a large number of self-test questions with their answers. A unique feature of the book is the inclusion of research avenues at the end of each chapter, which enable the readers to carry out researches on these paradigms. This book is intended for the undergraduate and postgraduate students of industrial, manufacturing, production and mechanical engineering.

Download or read book Activity Based Cost Management written by Gary Cokins and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-04-22 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bedingt durch das Internetzeitalter verlagert sich die Marktmacht mehr und mehr Richtung Verbraucher. Dadurch werden Unternehmen gezwungen, ihre Preise niedrig zu halten, wenn sie weiterhin wettbewerbsfähig bleiben und ihre Gewinne steigern wollen. Die Zauberformel, für die Verwirklichung dieses Ziels heisst: 'Activity-Based Costing and Management' (ABC/M) - das sich aus Prozesskostenrechung und Prozesskosten-Management zusammensetzt. Es liefert die Daten, mit deren Hilfe die beiden kritischen Managementstrategien - niedrige Preise und höhere Gewinne - erfolgreich umgesetzt werden können. Aber ABC/M liefert nicht nur ein genaueres Bild der Unternehmenskosten, sondern gleichzeitig wichtige Informationen, um bessere Entscheidungen zu treffen, höhere Gewinne zu erzielen und ein effektiveres Kostenmanagement zu betreiben. "Activity-Based Cost Management" ist ein praktischer Leitfaden, der speziell für Führungskräfte konzipiert wurde und anschaulich erklärt, wie ein ABC/M-Modell funktioniert, und wie man es schnell und problemlos in die Praxis umsetzt. Autor Gary Cokins, ein führender internationaler Experte auf diesem Gebiet, gibt Ihnen hier die Mittel an die Hand, ein effizientes ABC/M-Modell zu entwickeln und erfolgreich in Ihrem Unternehmen einzusetzen. Verständlich und unterhaltsam geschreiben. Ein maßgeblicher und unverzichtbarer Leitfaden zu einem topaktuellen Thema.

Download or read book Tool and Manufacturing Engineers Handbook Continuous Improvement written by Charles Wick and published by Society of Manufacturing Engineers. This book was released on 1983 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the renowned TMEH Series, the book contains hundreds of practical new ways to make continuous improvement work, and keep on working: quality management guidelines, quality and productivity improvement ideas, cost reduction tips, continuous process improvement, plus how to use world class techniques such as TPM, TQM, benchmarking, JIT, activity-based costing, improving customer/supplier relationships, and more. You'll also learn from "best practices" examples for quality training, teamwork, empowerment, self-assessment using Baldrige Quality Award criteria, ISO 9000 audits and certification, and more.

Download or read book Introduction to the Theory of Constraints TOC Management System written by Thomas B. McMullen, Jr and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1998-04-13 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing an important new expression of management science called the Theory of Constraints (TOC), this book helps busy executives and professionals quickly learn and implement TOC principles. Introduction to the Theory of Constraints (TOC) Management System organizes several proven TOC principles, processes, and solutions into a TOC management system that has been successfully applied to everything from manufacturing industries to health care. The Theory of Constraints is based on the scientific method that has been developed and refined for nearly three decades by Dr. Eli Goldratt. The TOC management system offers management techniques that are sound, practical, and can be applied to nearly every company, project, or personal endeavor imaginable. It has created fundamentally new ways of managing, and has dramatically improved the ability of hundreds of thousands of individuals to make smart decisions on a daily basis. If you've read Eli Goldratt's bestselling books and wondered how to put his ideas to work, Introduction to the Theory of Constraints (TOC) Management System tells what TOC is, where it came from, who uses it, and how to get started with it.

Download or read book Manufacturing Technology Directorate written by DIANE Publishing Company and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998-05 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This supplement contains new projects since the publication of the Project Book in Sep. 1995. Potential new starts are summarized on a single page. The summary contains an explanation of the need for the project, the approach taken to accomplish the effort, the benefits expected to be realized, the current status, the name of the project engineer, & performing contractor. Covers: advanced industrial practices, electronics, manufacturing & engineering systems, metals, nonmetals, sustainment, technology development, & Title III. Illsutrated.

Download or read book Handbook of Production Management Methods written by Gideon Halevi and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2001-10-22 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book provides a guide to the selection of appropriate production and manufacturing methods for postgraduate and professional manufacturing engineers. It starts by helping the reader to identify the required objectives of industrial management for their particular situation. Having identified the objectives an analytical assessment of the available production and management methods is made. The analytical system presents an objective method of production selection. For example, this practical book will help the reader to decide whether or not a local Just-in-Time process is needed or a full chain JIT method is needed. Alternatively the problem may be deciding between set-up time reduction or changeover time reduction. Should TQM be ceded to PCIs? This book covers nearly all methods of production and manufacturing and will prove the most comprehensive guide to choosing and using these methods. - Only book of its kind available - Widest coverage of methods available - Analytical approach to decision making

Download or read book Agile Manufacturing written by A. Gunasekaran and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2001-01-25 with total page 821 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agile manufacturing is defined as the capability of surviving and prospering in a competitive environment of continuous and unpredictable change by reacting quickly and effectively to changing markets, driven by customer-designed products and services. Critical to successfully accomplishing AM are a few enabling technologies such as the standard for the exchange of products (STEP), concurrent engineering, virtual manufacturing, component-based hierarchical shop floor control system, information and communication infrastructure, etc.The scope of the book is to present the undergraduate and graduate students, senior managers and researchers in manufacturing systems design and management, industrial engineering and information technology with the conceptual and theoretical basis for the design and implementation of AMS. Also, the book focuses on broad policy directives and plans of agile manufacturing that guide the monitoring and evaluating the manufacturing strategies and their performance. A problem solving approach is taken throughout the book, emphasizing the context of agile manufacturing and the complexities to be addressed.

Download or read book Re Creating the Corporation written by Russell L. Ackoff and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-07-29 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last three decades the average life expectancy of a corporation in North America has dipped well below 20 years. In fact, by 1983 a full third of the 1970 Fortune 500 companies had been acquired, merged, or broken apart. In this landmark book, one of the business world's foremost pioneers, Russell L. Ackoff, delivers this indispensable guide for those hoping to beat these odds--and to better navigate the corporate challenges of the next millennium. While most business and management schools continue to teach the functions of a corporation separately--production, marketing, finance, personnel--the reality is that for a corporation to endure each division must work with the others to create an effective system. Re-Creating the Corporation is Ackoff's masterful blueprint for understanding and creating these model corporate systems. In four comprehensive sections--Background, Process, Designs, and Change--Ackoff lays out in clear concise prose the five organizational goals of successful corporate systems: plan effectively, learn and adapt rapidly, democratize, introduce internal market economies, and employ a flexible structure that will minimize the need for future restructuring. And through a deft mix of practical and theoretical examples drawn from a wide range of applications in a wide range of firms, this book ultimately guides executives to the system best suited to meet their organizational goals. Re-Creating the Corporation, which is the culmination of a lifetime of innovative and insightful business thought from one of the business world's premier thinkers, is essential reading for those attempting to navigate the rapidly changing economic environment of the next millennium.

Download or read book The Big Picture of Business written by Hank Moore and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A creative approach to strategy development and planning for companies in today’s turbulent business environment that prepares them for an unknown tomorrow. The Big Picture of Business is the first overview book on serving communities and motivating leadership. Each year, one-third of the US Gross National Product goes toward cleaning up problems, damages and other high costs caused by companies that failed to take proper actions. Look no further than the cost of the current financial crisis for an example. The costs of band-aid surgery for their problems and make-good work cost business six times that of proper planning, oversight and accountability. Ninety-two percent of all problems in organizations stem from poor management decisions. Inside The Big Picture of Business, Hank Moore takes a fresh look at change and growth by utilizing full-scope planning as a means of navigating through uncertain waters toward richer success. It is based on his trademarked approach to growing and strengthening businesses, tested by his actual work in guiding corporations over three decades. Hank reveals how to master change and ready companies to face the future. Hank Moore is the highest level of business overview expert and is in that rarified circle of visionaries such as Peter Drucker, Stephen Covey and W. Edwards Deming. The Business TreeTM is his trademarked approach to growing, strengthening and evolving business, while mastering change. He advises companies about growth strategies, visioning, planning, leadership, futurism and Big Picture issues. He has written a series of business books. This is the third book in his Legends series, paralleling pop culture, history and innovative strategies.

Download or read book Supply Chain Management written by Ray R. Venkataraman and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2022-01-12 with total page 941 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supply Chain Management: Securing a Superior Global Edge takes a holistic, integrated approach to managing supply chains by addressing the critically important areas of globalization, sustainability, and ethics in every chapter. Authors Ray Venkataraman and Ozgun C. Demirag use a wide variety of real-world cases and examples from the manufacturing and service sectors to illustrate innovative supply chain strategies and technologies. With a focus on decision-making and problem-solving, Supply Chain Management provides students with the tools they need to succeed in today’s fiercely competitive, interconnected global economy.

Download or read book EBOOK Accounting What the Numbers Mean written by MARSHALL and published by McGraw Hill. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EBOOK: Accounting: What the Numbers Mean

Download or read book Collaborative Manufacturing written by Michael McClellan and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2002-09-13 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collaborative manufacturing is an interactive process with great potential, but without the direct input of the plant floor systems information, a significant piece of the management process is not available for consideration. Collaborative Manufacturing provides guidance and examples of how and why real-time events within the plant floor managemen

Download or read book Key Concepts in Operations Management written by Jonathan Sutherland and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key Concepts in Operations Management is one of a range of comprehensive glossaries with entries arranged alphabetically for easy reference. All major concepts, terms, theories and theorists are incorporated and cross-referenced. Additional reading and Internet research opportunities are identified. More complex terminology is made clearer with numerous diagrams and illustrations. With almost 600 key terms defined, the book represents a comprehensive must-have reference for anyone studying a business-related course or those simply wishing to understand what operations management is all about. It will be especially useful as a revision aid.

Download or read book Competing Through Supply Chain Management written by David F. Ross and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SCM is one of the hottest topics in manufacturing and distribution, and like JIT and TQC it requires a corporate commitment. This book provides both fundamental principles of SCM as well as a set of guidelines to assist in practical application of SCM. It will be one of the first books on the market that deals exclusively with SCM and its application. Readers in the academic, management sciences, sales, marketing and government environments will find this book of particular interest.

Download or read book EBOOK Accounting What the Numbers Mean written by David Marshall and published by McGraw Hill. This book was released on 2013-02-16 with total page 805 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accounting has become known as the language of business. This new edition is written to meet the needs of those students who will not be accountants but who do need to understand accounting to learn the key language that embarks us in the business world. Marshall, the leading text in the Survey market, takes readers through the basics: what accounting information is, what it means, and how it is used. The authors help students succeed through clear and concise writing, a conceptual focus and unparalleled technology support. In using this text, students examine financial statements and discover what they do and do not communicate. This enables them to gain the crucial decision-making and problem-solving skills they need in order to succeed in a professional environment.

Download or read book SPEND MANAGEMENT Increasing Value Performance and Efficiency written by RAVI RANJAN MITTAL and published by Global India Publications. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes fundamental explanation of how one constructs spend management cost assignment network that models an organization and becomes its repeatable reporting system.The expansion of costing beyond just products and base services into channels,distribution,and customers enables customer contribution profit margins to be calculated and made visible.Again it discusses applying spend management across an entire supply chain of trading partners to improve profits and remove excess costs.It also gives a preview of where spend management is headed.

Download or read book Making the Numbers Count written by Brian H. Maskell and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-06-18 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of Brian Maskell‘s now classic work proved that when given the chance, accountants would prefer not to serve out their working days as number crunching automatons. With its energetic tone and common sense approach, the book inspired numbers people at all levels to become true allies in their companies lean revolutions. It enco