Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Industrial Management

• Helps readers to understand and appreciate the power of managing logistics for profit and competitive advantage
  
• Educates readers about the nature of individual logistics activities and how they can be woven together
  
• Contains a global focus throughout, with examples drawn from various parts of the world
  
• Has been thoroughly...

Mounting emphasis on construction supply chain management (CSCM) is due to both global sourcing of materials and a shortage of labor. These factors force increasing amounts of value-added work to be conducted off-site deep in the supply chain. Construction Supply Chain Management Handbook compiles in one comprehensive source an overview of the diverse research and examples of construction supply chain practice around the world.

Reflecting the emergence of CSCM as an important area of multi-national research and practice, this volume takes an...

In light of increasing economic and international threats, military operations must be examined with a critical eye in terms of process design, management, improvement, and control. Although the Pentagon and militaries around the world have utilized industrial engineering (IE) concepts to achieve this goal for decades, there has been no single resource to bring together IE applications with a focus on improving military operations. Until now.
Winner of the 2010 IIE/Joint Publishers Book-of-the-Year Award
The Handbook of Military Industrial...

While the project management body of knowledge is embraced by disciplines ranging from manufacturing and business to social services and healthcare, the application of efficient project management is of particularly high value in science, technology, and engineering undertakings. STEP Project Management: Guide for Science, Technology, and Engineering Projects presents an integrated, step-by-step approach to managing projects in these complex areas, using the time-tested concepts, tools, and techniques of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK^(r)).

Key Features:

• a simple and powerful introduction to P-M Analysis
• hints for unraveling breakdown...

• Characterizing the demand in terms of volume by product and product family, component consumption, seasonal variability and life cycle.
• Matching the physical structure of the shop floor to the demand with the goal of approaching takt-driven production as closely as possible.
• Working out the details of assembly tasks station by station, including station sizing, tooling, fixturing,...

The ability to bring new and innovative products to market rapidly is the prime critical competence for any successful consumer-driven company. All industries, especially automotive, are slashing product development lead times in the current hyper-competitive marketplace. This book is the first to thoroughly examine and analyze the truly effective product development methodology that has made Toyota the most forward-thinking company in the automotive industry.

Winner of the 2007 Shingo Prize For Excellence In Manufacturing Research

In The Toyota Product Development...

Identifying Waste on the Shopfloor is the ideal compliment to 5S, TPM, and other tools for building a lean manufacturing operation.

Productivity's Shopfloor Series books offer a simple, cost-effective approach for building basic knowledge about key manufacturing...

Unlike other strategic procurement guides, Lean Supply Chain Management considers an organization's "business condition" as a contributing factor in the development of a strategic procurement strategy. That is, rather than taking a "one-size fits all" approach, the author's more individualized approach illustrates techniques specific to organizations operating in a standard or crisis environment.

Highlights include:

• Methods for developing and tracking strategic procurement initiatives.
• Planning in the "standard" and "crisis" environments....

The Basics of Reliability explains reliability concepts in a simple and straight-forward language for all employee levels and includes a comprehensive glossary that clearly and thoroughly defines technical terms.

Senior management, inspectors, technical sales personnel, product engineers, manufacturing engineers, quality engineers, or anyone responsible for reliability will be able to turn to The Basics of...