Re-engineering the manufacturing system

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Carol A. Ptak and Eli Schragenheim

"This book describes ERP, a system for effectively planning and managing all the resources of an enterprise, from the perspective of the business manager. It furnishes a step-by-step roadmap with many real-life examples for successful selection, implementation, and utilization of Enterprise Resource Planning for improved overall competitiveness. Once the reader gains an understanding of the concepts of ERP, he or she can then practice their implementation in "virtual reality" with the accompanying disk that contains a computerized simulation."--BOOK JACKET.

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Kai Mertins, Roland Jochem

"Quality-Oriented Design of Business Processes introduces a modeling method, "Integrated Enterprise Modeling" (IEM), which is related to ISO standards and provides manufacturing organizations with the means of analyzing, improving, and redesigning their business processes. The purpose of the book is to improve the quality of product and organizational performance through optimizing complex business processes and organizational design."--BOOK JACKET. "A computer aided tool kit, called MOOGO (included on a CD-ROM), is provided with the book. This software tool kit enables an organization to involve all appropriate personnel for purposes of modeling and optimizing business processes."--Jacket.

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Nallan C. Suresh, John M. Kay

Group Technology and Cellular Manufacturing (GT/CM) have been widely-researched areas in the past 15 years and much progress has been made in all branches of GT/CM. Resulting from this research activity has been a proliferation of techniques for part-machine grouping, engineering data bases, expert system-based design methods for identifying part families, new analytical and simulation tools for evaluating performance of cells, new types of cell incorporating robotics and flexible automation, team-based approaches for organizing the work force and much more; however, the field lacks a careful compilation of this research and its outcomes. The editors of this book have commissioned leading researchers and implementers to prepare specific treatments of topics for their special areas of expertise in this broad-based philosophy of manufacturing. The editors have sought to be global both in coverage of topic matters and contributors. Group Technology and Cellular Manufacturing addresses the needs and interests of three groups of individuals in the manufacturing field: academic researchers, industry practitioners, and students. (1) The book provides an up-to-date perspective, incorporating the advances made in GT/CM during the past 15 years. As a natural extension to this research, it synthesizes the latest industry practices and outcomes to guide research to greater real-world relevance. (2) The book makes clear the foundations of GT/CM from the core elements of new developments which are aimed at reducing developmental and manufacturing lead times, costs, and at improving business quality and performance. (3) Finally, the book can be used as a textbook for graduate students in engineering and management for studying the field of Group Technology and Cellular Manufacturing.

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Alex Hill & Terry Hill

"From two highly respected authors in the field, Essential Operations Management provides a concise, student-friendly overview of operations management, striking a balance between coverage of the service and manufacturing industries that reflects current trends and supported by well-developed international case studies and learning features"--