Production and Operations Management
Contents: Preface. 1. Production and operations management: an introduction. 2. Production planning and control. 3. Production capacity. 4. Operation strategy and control. 5. Plant layout. 6. Plant location. 7. Productivity, production order and work study. 8. Routing, scheduling, CPM and PERT analysis. 9. The product life cycle and mass production and batch production. 10. Material management. 11. Inventory control. 12. Forecasting in production and operations management. 13. Quality control. 14. Linear programming. 15. Plant maintenance. 16. Role of computers in production and operations management. 17. Production information systems. 18. Just in time systems and goal and philosophy. 19. Concept of pull and push production system. 20. Process capability analysis. 21. ISO standards series. 22. Business process re-engineering. 23. Lean, agile, e-manufacturing, virtual and collaborative manufacturing. 24. Waste management. 25. Project management. Glossary. Index.
This book is an attempt to keep our readers abreast of contemporary trends in production and operations management. Our major objective, while presenting this book before the readers is to make the subject interesting, and hence, special care has been taken to make it as simple to understand and reader friendly as possible.
The entire book is divided in 25 chapters. The arrangement of chapters is logical. This edition contains learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter supported by illustrations and tables. Review question have been put at the end of each chapter.
This book is an attempt to keep our readers abreast of contemporary trends in production and operations management. Our major objective, while presenting this book before the readers is to make the subject interesting, and hence, special care has been taken to make it as simple to understand and reader friendly as possible.
The entire book is divided in 25 chapters. The arrangement of chapters is logical. This edition contains learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter supported by illustrations and tables. Review question have been put at the end of each chapter.
