Manufacturing Strategy: How to Formulate and Implement a Winning Plan

by John Miltenburg

By identifying one of seven process models appropriate for your business, you can determine the appropriate outputs and how to change to better process models as your business needs change. Learn the improvement techniques currently used in manufacturing in both people-oriented methods and machine-oriented improvement approaches.Chapters




Manufacturing Outputs
Production Systems
Manufacturing Levers: Designing and Changing Production Systems
Competitive Analysis: Selecting the Best Production Systems
Level of Manufacturing Capacity
The Complete Framework for Formulating Manufacturing Strategy
Developing the Implementation Plan
Integrating Manufacturing Strategy and Business Strategy
Improvment Approaches in Manufacturing
Focus, Soft Technologies, Hard Technologies
Learning and the Product Life Cycle
Evaluation of Investments in Manufacturing
The Job Shop Production System
The Bach Flow Production System
The Flexible Manufacturing System, FMS
The Operator-Paced Line Flow Production System
The Just-In-Time (JIT) Production System
The Equipment-Paced Line Flow Production System
The Continuous Flow Production System

448 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1995

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