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MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS: FOUNDATIONS OF WORLD-CLASS PRACTICE Committee Membership Committee on Foundations of Manufacturing W. DALE COMPTON, Lillian M. Gilbreth Distinguished Professor of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University (Committee Chairman) H. KENT BOWEN, Ford Professor of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology HARRY E. COOK, Grayce Wicall Gauthier Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign JAMES F. LARDNER, Chairman of the Manufacturing Studies Board of the National Research Council A. ALAN B. PRITSKER, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Pritsker Corporation Contributing Authors NANCY L. BADORE, Manager, Management and Organization Planning, Employee Relations Staff, Ford Motor Company HAROLD E. EDMONDSON, Vice President of Manufacturing, Hewlett-Packard Corporation PHILIP A. FISHER, Fisher & Company JOHN E. GIBSON, Commonwealth Distinguished Professor of Systems Management, University of Virginia-Charlottesville WILLIAM C. HANSON, Vice President, Logistics, Digital Equipment Corporation

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MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS: FOUNDATIONS OF WORLD-CLASS PRACTICE DAN C. KRUPKA, Department Head, Manufacturing Systems Engineering, AT&T Bell Laboratories JOHN D. C. LITTLE, Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management DAVID B. MARSING, Plant Manager, Intel Corporation JOE H. MIZE, Regents Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management, Oklahoma State University JAMES J. SOLBERG, Director, Engineering Research Center for Intelligent Manufacturing Systems and Professor of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University G. KEITH TURNBULL, Vice President, Technology Planning, Alcoa ALBERTUS D. WELLIVER, Corporate Senior Vice President, Engineering and Technology, The Boeing Company RICHARD WILSON, Professor Emeritus, Industrial Engineering and Operations Department, University of Michigan NAE STAFF JOSEPH A. HEIM, Study Director, NAE J. Herbert Hollomon Fellow H. DALE LANGFORD, Editor BRUCE R. GUILE, Director, Program Office MARY JAY BALL, Administrative Assistant

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