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Author : Roy L. Harmon,Leroy D. Peterson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Industrial productivity
ISBN : 9780029138625
Documents more than a hundred real-life applications of productivity improvement.
Author : Roy L. Harmon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780029138632
Having successfully "reinvented the factory" in his previous books, Harmon extends his discussion of productivity from the factory of the future to the 21st-century warehouse. He illustrates real-life applications of important warehousing improvements in more than 50 companies throughout the world. Includes examples from GM, IBM, Xerox, 3M, and others. 150 line drawings.
Author : Roy L. Harmon,Leroy D. Peterson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Industrial productivity
ISBN : CORNELL:31924051612004
The "factory of the future" is here. We have the technology and professional knowledge, say leading manufacturing consultants Roy Harmon and Leroy Peterson, to implement revolutionary concepts that many managers might regard as futuristic. In this path-breaking book, Harmon and Peterson move beyond theory to document more than a hundred real-life applications of productivity improvement -- from the focused factory and assembly process design to the plantwide plan -- gathered from Andersen Consulting, Arthur Andersen & Co.'s offices around the world. The reorganization of existing plants into multiple "factories within a factory" is the single most important feature of productivity improvement, according to Harmon and Peterson. These smaller units known as subplants, are honed to the smallest practical size to ensure the highest level of productivity. Multiple subplants can be clustered to focus accountability and authority for production of product families into easily managed groups of processes. With hundreds of diagrams and using examples of companies that operate focused factories in dozens of countries, Harmon and Peterson detail both the physical and organizational changes required to make the focused factory a successful and profitable feature of a plant's modernization. In addition to creating subplants and subplant clusters, Harmon and Peterson show how manufacturers can dramatically increase productivity by adopting a plantwide plan. In its most basic form, the plantwide plan is a layout of a single factory. It includes, to the extent practical, not only the ideal layout but also step-by-step strategies for movement of individual processes from their current locations in the factory to final target destinations. Harmon and Peterson explain how managers can use the plantwide plan to eliminate the common problem of compromising ideals too early to accommodate assumed constraints and turn an existing factory into a competitive factory of the future -- today. Flexibility, creativity, and dynamic planning are key concepts for attaining superior manufacturing results. For plant modernization to be profitable, the organizational structure must keep pace. Achieving world class status is not enough. The new hallmark of excellence must be continuous improvement to maintain a superior position. The plans and suggestions outlined in "Reinventing The Factory" allow the entrepreneur the responsibility and authority to effect ongoing improvements and render processes adaptable to reflect additions or removals of product lines, changes in sales volume over time and modifications resulting from previous or concurrent improvements. Harmon and Peterson provide the valuable tools and methods necessary to attain such goals. They highlight the dynamic nature of progress itself and show how managers can overcome the most tenacious habit: the resistance to change.
Author : Roy L. Harmon,Leroy D. Peterson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Industrial productivity
ISBN : UOM:39015048929015
Documents more than a hundred real-life applications of productivity improvement.
Author : James F. Robeson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 1384 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1994-07-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781439106259
The Logistics Handbook encompasses all of the latest advances in warehousing and distribution. It provides invaluable "how to" problem-solving tools and techniques for all the ever-increasing logistical problems managers face -- making it the most complete and authoritative handbook to date. Special features include: * The most in-depth coverage of a wide range of topics, including information systems, benchmarking, and environmental issues * Contributions found nowhere else from the leading executives, consultants, and academics in the field, such as C. John Langley, James Heskett, and David Anderson * State of the art graphics * Information-packed appendixes of logistics publications and organizations This all-inclusive reference will enable the next generation of managers to thoroughly integrate their logistics operations at all levels -- strategic, structural, functional, and implementation -- into a comprehensive logistics strategy.
Author : Andrzej Targowski
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1878289322
Global Information Infrastructure: The Birth, Vision and Architecture addresses three levels of the information superhighway in terms of their information content and technological implementations. This book is a futuristic view of the major components of the new global world.
Author : Shahrukh A. Irani
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999-04-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0471121398
Cellular manufacturing (CM) is the grouping of similar products for manufacture in discrete multi-machine cells. It has been proven to yield faster production cycles, lower in-process inventory levels, and enhanced product quality. Pioneered on a large scale by Russian, British, and German manufacturers, interest in CM methods has grown steadily over the past decade. However, there continues to be a dearth of practical guides for industrial engineers and production managers interested in implementing CM techniques in their plants. Bringing together contributions by an international team of CM experts, the Handbook of Cellular Manufacturing Systems bridges this gap in the engineering literature.
Author : Cornelius T. Leondes
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1420050001
In the competitive business arena companies must continually strive to create new and better products faster, more efficiently, and more cost effectively than their competitors to gain and keep the competitive advantage. Computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided engineering (CAE), and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) are now the industry standa
Author : James R. Huntzinger
Publisher : J. Ross Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1932159517
This practical and informative text demonstrates the importance of the relationship between a physically lean enterprise and accounting. It argues that to have continued success in an increasingly competitive marketplace, businesses must streamline both their physical operations and accounting methods.
Author : James J. Connolly
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739148259
The most pressing question facing the small and mid-sized cities of America's industrial heartland is how to reinvent themselves. Once-thriving communities in the Northeastern and Midwestern U. S. have decayed sharply as the high-wage manufacturing jobs that provided the foundation for their prosperity disappeared. A few larger cities had the resources to adjust, but most smaller places that relied on factory work have struggled to do so. Unless and until they find new economic roles for themselves, the small cities will continue to decline. Reinventing these smaller cities is a tall order. A few might still function as nodes of industrial production. But landing a foreign-owned auto manufacturer or a green energy plant hardly solves every problem. The new jobs will not be unionized and thus will not pay nearly as much as the positions lost. The competition among localities for high-tech and knowledge economy firms is intense. Decaying towns with poor schools and few amenities are hardly in a good position to attract the 'creative-class' workers they need. Getting to the point where they can lure such companies will require extensive retooling, not just economically but in terms of their built environment, cultural character, political economy, and demographic mix. Such changes often run counter to the historical currents that defined these places as factory towns. After the Factory examines the fate of industrial small cities from a variety of angles. It includes essays from a variety of disciplines that consider the sources and character of economic growth in small cities. They delve into the history of industrial small cities, explore the strategies that some have adopted, and propose new tacks for these communities as they struggle to move forward in the twenty-first century. Together, they constitute a unique look at an important and understudied dimension of urban studies and globalization.
Author : Mostafa Ezziyyani,Mohamed Bahaj,Faddoul Khoukhi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319691374
This book includes the proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Information Technology, Services and Systems (AIT2S-17) held on April 14–15, 2017 in Tangier, Morocco. Presenting the latest research in the field, it stimulates debate, discusses new challenges and provides insights into the field in order to promote closer interaction and interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers and practitioners. Intended for researchers and practitioners in advanced information technology/management and networking, the book is also of interest to those in emergent fields such as data science and analytics, big data, Internet of Things, smart networked systems, artificial intelligence and expert systems, pattern recognition, and cloud computing.
Author : Roy L. Harmon,Leroy D. Peterson
Publisher : Free Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1416577726
The "factory of the future" is here. We have the technology and professional knowledge, say leading manufacturing consultants Roy Harmon and Leroy Peterson, to implement revolutionary concepts that many managers might regard as futuristic. In this path-breaking book, Harmon and Peterson move beyond theory to document more than a hundred real-life applications of productivity improvement -- from the focused factory and assembly process design to the plantwide plan -- gathered from Andersen Consulting, Arthur Andersen & Co.'s offices around the world. The reorganization of existing plants into multiple "factories within a factory" is the single most important feature of productivity improvement, according to Harmon and Peterson. These smaller units known as subplants, are honed to the smallest practical size to ensure the highest level of productivity. Multiple subplants can be clustered to focus accountability and authority for production of product families into easily managed groups of processes. With hundreds of diagrams and using examples of companies that operate focused factories in dozens of countries, Harmon and Peterson detail both the physical and organizational changes required to make the focused factory a successful and profitable feature of a plant's modernization. In addition to creating subplants and subplant clusters, Harmon and Peterson show how manufacturers can dramatically increase productivity by adopting a plantwide plan. In its most basic form, the plantwide plan is a layout of a single factory. It includes, to the extent practical, not only the ideal layout but also step-by-step strategies for movement of individual processes from their current locations in the factory to final target destinations. Harmon and Peterson explain how managers can use the plantwide plan to eliminate the common problem of compromising ideals too early to accommodate assumed constraints and turn an existing factory into a competitive factory of the future -- today. Flexibility, creativity, and dynamic planning are key concepts for attaining superior manufacturing results. For plant modernization to be profitable, the organizational structure must keep pace. Achieving world class status is not enough. The new hallmark of excellence must be continuous improvement to maintain a superior position. The plans and suggestions outlined in Reinventing The Factory allow the entrepreneur the responsibility and authority to effect ongoing improvements and render processes adaptable to reflect additions or removals of product lines, changes in sales volume over time and modifications resulting from previous or concurrent improvements. Harmon and Peterson provide the valuable tools and methods necessary to attain such goals. They highlight the dynamic nature of progress itself and show how managers can overcome the most tenacious habit: the resistance to change.
Author : R. Kensy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001-04-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780333985687
This book combines a theoretical study of Japan's economic structures and multinational enterprises with a post-modern analysis of the contemporary multinational enterprise. The author considers the appropriateness of the post-modern approach for discussing economic activities, in particular the New Economy, and also Japanese society and culture. Kensy analyses Japan's economic structure, interpreting its methods, strategies and results in a post-modern context and presents a survey of socio-economic development in Japan since the beginning of westernization. He goes on to discuss Japanese models for the transformation of society in the future, with particular reference to the Keiretzu. Finding Japan to be a truly postmodern society, Kensy shows that Japan is prepared to be a leader in the New Economy. Kensy takes an innovative and stimulating approach that will be of interest to those seeking to better understand the development and future of the economic structures of Japan.
Author : T. A. Lee,A. Bishop,R. H. Parker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317945352
First published in 1996. This book summarises the Seminar held in Edinburgh in 1994 in the five hundredth year since the publication of Luca Pacioli's Summa de Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportioni et Proportionalita. Its purpose is simple but relevant to every accountant. It revisits some fundamentals that lay behind Pacioli's decision to write his Summa, and examines whether the accounting framework in which we work today has overlooked basic issues because of its continued focus on development of the existing financial accounting model. It analyses Pacioli's legacy from several different perspectives, deliberately choosing to do so in ways that addressed considerations that his work reflected, examining the nature and characteristics of the bridge between academic analysis and insight on the one hand and practical application on the other. It also looks at the dominant influences in the evolution of accountancy for managing stewardship and for reporting of that stewardship. By doing so, it attempts to identify influences that had been less pressing and so had been ignored or overlooked, and also considers how changing technology has affected the way we manage the accountancy process.
Author : Bose Tapan K.
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8131700224
