Winning Manufacturing: The How-To Book of Successful Manufacturing

A how-to book of successful manufacturing. "Just what American manufacturers have been waiting for: a book that can be taken off the shelf and its contents implemented." (Manufacturing Automation) The author leaves behind manufacturing techniques of the 1970-80s and offers a new approach for successful manufacturing. This approach breaks away from quick-fix fads, trending business books, and one shot attempts to improve manufacturing. This book is written for the manufacturing manager. It presents and details 20 requirements of success for pursuing winning manufacturing that address all phases--including: costs, product development, marketing, lead times, material flow, inventories, maintenance, quality, and human resources. A must have for any manufacturing business.

Business & Money

Tompkins, James A.

Management & Leadership

McGraw=Hill

A comprehensive reference that presents managers with both a state-of-the-art review of distribution science and a practical guide to day-to-day distribution issues that impact directly on customer satisfaction and the total cost of distribution, and thus play an instrumental role in overall business success. Includes several real-world case studies that bring into focus a variety of distribution issues. Acidic paper. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

The Distribution Management Handbook

Completely revised to reflect recent developments ranging from ADA requirements to re-engineering, benchmarking and cycle-time reduction, this book provides advice on planning, equipping and managing every aspect of the warehouse operation. It includes such topics as: changing technologies; specific planning data; valuable implementation guidance; and new case studies from such companies as Abbot Laboratories, Rubbermaid, Ross Stores and Sara Lee.

The Warehouse Management Handbook

McGraw-Hill Companies

Tompkins/White/Bozer/Tanchoco is the leading facilities planning book on the market, today. Its blending of breadth and depth of coverage are unmatched. Thousands of engineering students and practitioners have used the book to prepare them to design new facilities and expand or renovate existing facilities. The book combines applied aspects with proven quantitative methodologies. It carries the reader through the entire process of planning facilities, regardless of the application settings for the facilities.

Facilities Planning

White, John A.

Bozer, Yavuz A.

Tanchoco, J. M. A.

wiley

This revision incorporates all the significant advances that have occurred in the past decade; including advances in facilities planning, material handling, and computing technologies, as well as engineering and management philosophies. It focuses on the determination of the requirements for people, equipment, space, and material in the facility. It presents concepts and techniques to facilitate the generation of alternative facilities plans and continues to focus on generating alternative facilities plans. It also presents a variety of quantitative approaches that can be used to model specific aspects of facilities planning problems and discusses the treatment of facilities planning.

Arts & Photography

Frazelle, Edward H.

Trevino, Jaime

Architecture

Book by Tompkins, James A., Smith, Jerry D.

How to Plan and Manage Warehouse Operations

Smith, Jerry D.

Amacom Books

Inst of Industrial Engineers

Goose Chase: Capturing the Energy of Change in Logistics

Jernigan, Brenda

Tompkins Associates

Warehouse Management Handbook

Facilities Planning, Abridged Bound Print

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

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