Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Production & Operations Management

Interest in the phenomenon known as "lean" has grown significantly in recent years. This is the first volume to provide an academically rigorous overview of the field of lean management, introducing the reader to the application of lean in diverse application areas, from the production floor to sales and marketing, from the automobile industry to academic institutions.

The volume collects contributions from well-known lean experts and up-and-coming scholars from around the world. The chapters provide a detailed description of lean management across the manufacturing...

Dieses umfassende und systematisch aufgebaute Handbuch befasst sich mit der ganzheitlichen Projektierung der Produktion in Fabriken. Es behandelt sowohl die Systeme der Produktion für die Teilefertigung und Erzeugnismontage, der Ver- und Entsorgung sowie des Fabrikbetriebes als auch die Erhaltungs- und Materialflusssysteme.

Ausgehend vom Produktionsprogramm beschreiben die Autoren, wie die Systeme der Fabrik unter Beachtung praktischer Aspekte durch Funktionsbestimmung, Dimensionierung und Strukturierung entwickelt, optimiert und realisierungsgerecht gestaltet werden. In den...

Our objectives in writing Project Scheduling: A Research Handbook are threefold: (1) Provide a unified scheme for classifying the numerous project scheduling problems occurring in practice and studied in the literature; (2) Provide a unified and up-to-date treatment of the state-of-the-art procedures developed for their solution; (3) Alert the reader to various important problems that are still in need of considerable research effort.

Project Scheduling: A Research Handbook has been divided into four parts. Part I consists of three...

This book reports on cutting-edge research and developments in manufacturing, giving a special emphasis to solutions fostering automation, sustainability and health, safety and well-being at work. Topics cover manufacturing process analysis and optimization, supply chain management, quality control, as well as human factors and logistics. They highlight the role and advantages of intelligent systems and technologies, discussing current best-practices and challenges to cope with in the near future. Based on proceedings of the 32nd edition of the International Conference on Flexible...