Production Operations Management category: 1955 books
The Machine That Changed the World
The Story of Lean Production-- Toyota's Secret Weapon in the Global Car Wars That Is Now Revolutionizing World Industry
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2007
The classic, nationally bestselling book that first articulated the principles of lean production, with a new foreword and afterword by the authors.
When The Machine That Changed the World was first published in 1990, Toyota was half the size of General Motors. Twenty years later Toyota passed...
Global Macrotrends and Their Impact on Supply Chain Management
Strategies for Gaining Competitive Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Global supply chain decision-makers and practitioners are about to face brutally tough new challenges. They will be called upon to manage supply and demand in a world marked by demographic and economic shifts that will turn their supply and demand markets upside down. They will have to secure crucial...
Turnaround, Shutdown and Outage Management
Effective Planning and Step-by-Step Execution of Planned Maintenance Operations
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Shutdown management is project management of a special kind: managing the repair, replacement or maintenance of critical systems. Manufacturing and process plants, computer systems, airliners, and many other systems must be regularly closed down or taken out of service for planned maintenance operations....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
This book focusses on the challenges and changes organizational management faces in an era when the need to develop environmentally aware processes meets high levels of competition. It covers the synergetic effects, how re-use, recycling, waste reduction, and other sustainable production strategies...
Supply Chain Risk Management
Understanding Emerging Threats to Global Supply Chains
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
With increased outsourcing, globalisation, and just-in-time production, the ability to effectively identify, assess and manage risks in the supply chain is more important than ever. Supply Chain Risk Management is a practical learning resource which explores a wide range of external threats to the...
by Art Byrne, James P. Womack
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
THE C-LEVEL GUIDE TO SUCCEEDING WITH LEAN
"With 30 years of accumulated experience, Art Byrne is one of the rare few people who can speak with authority about the pitfalls of fi nancial measurement systems, the importance of respect for people, the power of Lean in the marketplace, and the leverage...
Excellence in Warehouse Management
How to Minimise Costs and Maximise Value
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
Warehouses are often seen as a necessary evil: places that stop the flow of goods and thus increase costs without adding value. But the truth is that they have a critical part to play in supply chain management, and warehouse managers should be centrally involved in the strategic aspects of any business....
Supply Chain Resilience Management: Is the Japanese Automotive Supply Chain resilient enough?
Analysis of Resilience Capabilities of Readiness, Response and Recovery - A Case Study of Riken Corp.
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Business economics - Supply, Production, Logistics, grade: Distinction, University of Manchester (Manchester Business School), language: English, abstract: Since 1980's the Japanese car manufacturing industry has been celebrated as the most efficient...
by Ravi Ramya, Chandrasekharan Rajendran, Hans Ziegler
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
This book examines the Capacitated Lot Sizing Problem (CLSP) in process industries. In almost all process industries, there are situations where products have short/long setup times, and the setup of the product and its subsequent production are carried over, across consecutive periods. The setup...
Integrative Production Technology
Theory and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
This contributed volume contains the research results of the Cluster of Excellence “Integrative Production Technology for High-Wage Countries”, funded by the German Research Society (DFG). The approach to the topic is genuinely interdisciplinary, covering insights from fields such as engineering,...
Operations Research Proceedings 2015
Selected Papers of the International Conference of the German, Austrian and Swiss Operations Research Societies (GOR, ÖGOR, SVOR/ASRO), University of Vienna, Austria, September 1-4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
This book gathers a selection of refereed papers presented at the “International Conference on Operations Research OR2015,” which was held at the University of Vienna, Austria, September 1-4, 2015. Over 900 scientists and students from 50 countries attended this conference and presented more than...
Computational Methods and Production Engineering
Research and Development
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Computational Methods and Production Engineering: Research and Development is an original book publishing refereed, high quality articles with a special emphasis on research and development in production engineering and production organization for modern industry. Innovation and the relationship between...
Multi-Agent Based Beam Search for Real-Time Production Scheduling and Control
Method, Software and Industrial Application
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
The Multi-Agent Based Beam Search (MABBS) method systematically integrates four major requirements of manufacturing production - representation capability, solution quality, computation efficiency, and implementation difficulty - within a unified framework to deal with the many challenges of complex...
by Shridhar Lolla
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Experts have called the current pattern of rapid and unpredictable changes in business conditions as the New Normal. In order to lead in these conditions, it is critical to constantly innovate business at an ever faster pace. And to obtain the desired responsive capabilities, organizations significantly...