Production and manufacturing management since the 1980s has absorbed in rapid succession several new production management concepts: manufacturing strategy, focused factory, just-in-time manufacturing, concurrent engineering, total quality management, supply chain management, flexible manufacturing systems, lean production, mass customization, and more. With the increasing globalization of manufacturing, the field will continue to expand. This encyclopedia's audience includes anyone concerned with manufacturing techniques, methods, and manufacturing decisions.

In today's manufacturing environment, the integration of commercial, production, maintenance, and engineering functions is a common and crucial goal. In this timely volume, Richard G. Lamb presents a new standard within the enterprise and plant design management. Lamb shows readers how to advance the plant's role in enterprise business performance and leadership by most cost effectively achieving the mechanical availability necessary to perform in the face of current events, business cycles, and industry trends. Performance is from the designed and managed reliability and maintainability of its equipment.

This new edition presents an enhanced perspective for the innovative concept of Total Manufacturing Assurance (TMA) and the holistic means by which such assurance can be attained. In fulfilling this objective, this textbook discusses the management and engineering techniques and tools, required to achieve TMA. Using a holistic approach to manufacturing operations, Total Manufacturing Assurance: Controlling Product Quality, Reliability, and Safety, Second Edition focuses on analytics and performance assessment, along with Industry 4.0 and the role it plays in advanced manufacturing. The textbook covers strategic planning, innovation, and engineering economics, as well as the manufacturing process, materials, and operations. Product manufacturing system reliability, maintainability, availability, quality, and safety, along with financial issues in decision-making and engineering analysis, are all captured in this new edition. Students at undergraduate and graduate levels studying engineering management, mechanical, industrial, and manufacturing engineering, as well as business students will find this new edition an invaluable instructional resource. At the same time, working professionals, including management, engineers, and others who are intimately involved in the manufacturing system sector will also find this textbook very useful in their day-to-day work. PowerPoint slides and a solutions manual are available to instructors for qualified course adoptions.

Intended for use by undergraduates and postgraduates on business administration courses, this text provides coverage of manufacturing management from a "modern" perspective, providing an integrated account of the new, emergent philosophies in manufacturing.

Senior executives, professional management consultants, managers and students of all disciplines will find this book a stimulating guide to manufacturing quality and continuous improvement.

To succeed in manufacturing and service operations, managers need both technical and behavioral skills, and know how to apply these skills to transform processes and outputs in a wide variety of operational contexts throughout the supply chain. Now, there's an authoritative and comprehensive guide to best-practice manufacturing and service operations in any organization. Co-authored by a leading expert alongside the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), this reference details the planning, organizing, controlling, directing, motivating and coordinating functions used to produce goods or services. It covers long-term strategic decisions such as facility location; mid-term tactical decisions such as setting levels of inventory and labor; and short-term operational decisions such as job assignments. Coverage includes: Basic manufacturing and service operations concepts, purposes, terminology, roles, and goals; types of manufacturing and services; planning processes; inventory and labor requirements; process control; productivity levels, and budget control Key elements, processes, and interactions, including facility, material, and labor requirements planning; scheduling; and continuous process and quality improvement processes, including TQM, ISO, Six Sigma, SPC, Theory of Constraints, FMEA, and 5S Principles/strategies for establishing efficient, effective, and sustainable operations: Manufacturing and services planning and strategies, encompassing facility ownership and location, production, processes, layout, lead capacity, technology, personnel, measurement, compensation, sustainability, and more The key roles and value of technology, including MRP II systems, service systems, ERP systems, and capabilities for supporting manufacturing and service planning, execution, and cost management. Requirements and challenges of global manufacturing and service operations, including manufacturing and outsourcing in Low-Cost Countries (LCCs); logistical difficulties, labor challenges, financial implications, decision processes, contract performance, risk management, and regulation Best practices for assessing performance using standard metrics and frameworks, including KPIs, tradeoff analysis, scorecarding, dashboards, and exception management

This book covers the emerging and important topics related to production and operations management in a systematic way. It covers not only the essentials of planning, designing, managing and controlling of manufacturing operations, but also a number of relevant topics such as total preventive maintenance, environmental issues in production system, advanced production system, total productivity management and work system design, which are not covered in many books. The book is a useful resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of MBA programmes, as well as B.Tech and M.Tech programmes of production and industrial engineering. Key Features • Theories and concepts based on day-to-day practical applications in the industry • Large number of solved examples to explain the theoretical concepts • Case study at the end of each chapter to illustrate the theory • Brings out the link between linear programming and its applications

This new edition presents an enhanced perspective for the innovative concept of Total Manufacturing Assurance (TMA) and the holistic means by which such assurance can be attained. In fulfilling this objective, this textbook discusses the management and engineering techniques and tools, required to achieve TMA. Using a holistic approach to manufacturing operations, Total Manufacturing Assurance: Controlling Product Quality, Reliability, and Safety, Second Edition focuses on analytics and performance assessment, along with Industry 4.0 and the role it plays in advanced manufacturing. The textbook covers strategic planning, innovation, and engineering economics, as well as the manufacturing process, materials, and operations. Product manufacturing system reliability, maintainability, availability, quality, and safety, along with financial issues in decision-making and engineering analysis, are all captured in this new edition. Students at undergraduate and graduate levels studying engineering management, mechanical, industrial, and manufacturing engineering, as well as business students will find this new edition an invaluable instructional resource. At the same time, working professionals, including management, engineers, and others who are intimately involved in the manufacturing system sector will also find this textbook very useful in their day-to-day work. PowerPoint slides and a solutions manual are available to instructors for qualified course adoptions.

The economic interdependence amongdeveloping and established industrializednations, and the disintegration of barriersto the flow of capital, information andtechnology across national borders facilitatesinternational market integration andglobalization. These market conditionsforce manufacturing companies to seriouslyconsider the strategies they need to implementif they are to develop competitive advantages. Very often the strategies that are executedwill result in a sustained competitiveadvantage through which a firm becomesleaner, more flexible, and more focused onproviding cost-effective goods and services tosophisticated customers. This book providesmanufacturing business strategies to assistcompanies to meet those requirements.