Operations Strategy
Text and Cases
Published on 1. November 1991
Book
Paperback/Softback
592 pages
978-0-13-638917-0 (ISBN)
Description
Highly practical in focus, this volume proceeds from broad discussions of operations strategy, to assessments of specific strategies (competing on quality, productivity, and new products and processes), to discussions of how those strategies can best be implemented over time.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 263 mm
Width: 210 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
1210 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-13-638917-0 (9780136389170)
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Content
I. MANUFACTURING AS A COMPETITIVE WEAPON.
1. Indalex Ltd.
2. Manufacturing-Missing Link in Corporate Strategy.
3. Chandler Home Products.
4. Sensormatic Electronics Corporation.
5. Intercon International.
6. The Roles and Responsibilities of the Corporate Manufacturing Staff.
7. Teradyne: The Foundry.
8. How Should You Organize Manufacturing?
9. FMC, Crane and Excavator Division.
II. STRATEGIES AND APPROACHES.
10. American Food and Grains: Commodity and Ingredient Procurement.
11. Quest for the Best.
12. Steinway and Sons.
13. Sanyo Manufacturing Corporation-Forrest City, Arkansas.
14. A Note on Quality: The Views of Deming, Juran, and Crosby.
15. Quality on the Line.
16. A Day at Midwest Equipment Corporation.
17. Applichem.
18. Why Some Factories Are More Productive than Others.
19. North American Rockwell Draper Division.
20. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation.
21. The Case for Managing by the Numbers.
22. Note on the Aerospace Industry and Industrial Modernization.
23. Vought Aero Products: Factory of the Future.
24. Corning Glass Works: The Z-Glass Project.
25. Allstate Chemical Company: The Commercialization of Dynarim.
26. The Rogers Corporation: Electroluminescent Lamps.
27. Project Nantucket.
28. The Boeing 767: From Concept to Production.
29. Lehrer McGovern Bovis, Inc.
30. A Note on Value Analysis: Its History and Methodology.
III. PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING OPERATIONS STRATEGIES OVER TIME.
31. Building on the Past.
32. Digital Equipment Corporation: The Endpoint Model.
33. A Note on Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRPII).
34. Signetics Corporation: Implementing a Quality Improvement Program (A).
35. Signetics Corporation: Implementing a Quality Improvement Program (D).
36. Copeland Corporation: Evolution of a Manufacturing Strategy, 1975-1982.
37. Competing Through Manufacturing.
Index.
1. Indalex Ltd.
2. Manufacturing-Missing Link in Corporate Strategy.
3. Chandler Home Products.
4. Sensormatic Electronics Corporation.
5. Intercon International.
6. The Roles and Responsibilities of the Corporate Manufacturing Staff.
7. Teradyne: The Foundry.
8. How Should You Organize Manufacturing?
9. FMC, Crane and Excavator Division.
II. STRATEGIES AND APPROACHES.
10. American Food and Grains: Commodity and Ingredient Procurement.
11. Quest for the Best.
12. Steinway and Sons.
13. Sanyo Manufacturing Corporation-Forrest City, Arkansas.
14. A Note on Quality: The Views of Deming, Juran, and Crosby.
15. Quality on the Line.
16. A Day at Midwest Equipment Corporation.
17. Applichem.
18. Why Some Factories Are More Productive than Others.
19. North American Rockwell Draper Division.
20. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation.
21. The Case for Managing by the Numbers.
22. Note on the Aerospace Industry and Industrial Modernization.
23. Vought Aero Products: Factory of the Future.
24. Corning Glass Works: The Z-Glass Project.
25. Allstate Chemical Company: The Commercialization of Dynarim.
26. The Rogers Corporation: Electroluminescent Lamps.
27. Project Nantucket.
28. The Boeing 767: From Concept to Production.
29. Lehrer McGovern Bovis, Inc.
30. A Note on Value Analysis: Its History and Methodology.
III. PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING OPERATIONS STRATEGIES OVER TIME.
31. Building on the Past.
32. Digital Equipment Corporation: The Endpoint Model.
33. A Note on Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRPII).
34. Signetics Corporation: Implementing a Quality Improvement Program (A).
35. Signetics Corporation: Implementing a Quality Improvement Program (D).
36. Copeland Corporation: Evolution of a Manufacturing Strategy, 1975-1982.
37. Competing Through Manufacturing.
Index.