Capacity Measurement & Improvement: A Manager's Guide to Evaluating and Optimizing Capacity Productivity

by Thomas P. Klammer

In a competitive economy, the effective use of capacity is critical to the profitability and competitiveness of a manufacturing concern. Capacity Measurement & Improvement shows how capacity measurement can be used to provide strategic information that can help managers improve the productivity of existing capacity and facilitate intelligent capital investment decisions. Developed by the Cost Systems Management Program of the Consortium for Advanced Manufacturing International, this book is a practical, reasoned approach to this critical manufacturing issue. Capacity Measurement and Improvement presents: a unique capacity model developed, researched and tested by CAM-I; templates for application and implementation procedures; straightforward definitions, key point summaries, and illustrations to facilitate reader understanding.

130 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1996