The Essentials of Production and Operations Management

Part 1 Operating systems and operations management: the nature of operating systems and operations management. Part 2 The context of operations management: business and operation policy; operations management and official business functions; operations economics and cost control. Part 3 The arrangement of facilities: location of facilities; facilities layout and materials handling. Part 4 Work and work systems: work and work methods; work measurement and work standards; human factors in work system design; organizational factors in work system design. Part 5 The management of capacity: capacity management. Part 6 Operations scheduling: activity scheduling; project management and network scheduling; scheduling for batch processing; the design and scheduling of flow processing systems. Part 7 Inventory management and the supply of resources: materials administration, purchasing and distribution; inventory management. Part 8: the nature of operations control; quality management and reliability; maintenance and replacement; performance measurements.