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PAPERBACK price:$24.95 add to cart HARDBACK price:$34.95 add to cart Rights & Permissions Free PDF Access Sign in to download PDF book and chapters Free Resources PDF SUMMARY Display this book on your site! Related Titles Visionary Manufacturing Challenges for 2020 The Competitive Edge: Research Priorities for U.S. Manufacturing Other Related Titles Manufacturing Systems: Foundations of World-Class Practice (1992) Citation Manager Export the bibliographic data for this book in your chosen format Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Citation Manager . "Report of the Committee on Foundations of Manufacturing." Manufacturing Systems: Foundations of World-Class Practice. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1992. Please select a format: Page 1   E-mail Share on facebook Facebook Share on delicious Delicious Share on stumbleupon Stumble Share on twitter Twitter More Sharing ServicesMore The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON FOUNDATIONS OF MANUFACTURING W. DALE COMPTON , Chairman H. KENT BOWEN HARRY E. COOK JAMES F. LARDNER A. ALAN B. PRITSKER Page 1 Front Matter (R1-R10) Report of the Committee on Foundations of Manufacturing (1-2) Executive Summary (3-8) Introduction (9-13) Overview (14-26) Management Practice (27-42) Measuring, Describing, and Predicting System Performance (43-60) Organizational Learning and Improving System Performance (61-77) Educational and Technological Challenges (78-82) Globally Competitive Manufacturing Practices (83-84) Involvement and Empowerment: The Modern Paradigm for Management Success (85-92) Implementation Projects: Decisions and Expenditures (93-99) Benchmarking (100-106) Improving Quality Through the Concept of Learning Curves (107-115) Organizing Manufacturing Enterprises for Customer Satisfaction (116-127) Customer Satisfaction (128-136) The Interface Between Manufacturing Executives and Wall Street Visitors--Why Security Analysts Ask Some of the Questions That They Do (137-148) Taylorism and Professional Education (149-157) The Integrated Enterprise (158-165) Time as a Primary System Metric (166-172) Communication Barriers to Effective Manufacturing (173-179) Are There 'Laws' of Manufacturing? (180-188) Taking Risks in Manufacturing (189-195) Constant Change, Constant Challenge (196-203) Manufacturing Capacity Management Through Modeling and Simulation (204-214) The Power of Simple Models in Manufacturing (215-223) Improving Manufacturing Competitiveness Through Strategic Analysis (224-232) Going to the Gemba (233-237) Jazz: A Metaphor for High-Performance Teams (238-244) Consolidated Bibliography (245-253) Committee Membership (254-255) Biohgraphies of Contributing Authors (256-262) Index (263-273)

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