Comprehensive Introduction to Manufacturing Management text covering the behavior laws at work in factories. Examines operating policies and strategic objectives. Hopp presents the concepts of manufacturing processes and controls within a 'physics' or 'laws of nature' analogy--a novel approach. There is enough quantitative material for an engineer's course, as well as narrative that a management major can understand and apply.

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PART I THE LESSONS OF HISTORY 1. Manufacturing in America 2. Inventory Control: From EOQ to RDP 3. The MRP Crusade 4. The JIT Revolution 5. What Went Wrong

PART II FACTORY PHYSICS 6. A Science of Manufacturing 7. Basic Factory Dynamics 8. Variability Basics 9. The Corrupting Influence of Variability 10. Push and Pull Production Systems 11. The Human Element in Operations Management 12. Total Quality Manufacturing

PART III PRINCIPLES IN PRACTICE 13. A Pull Planning Framework 14. Shop Floor Control 15. Production Scheduling 16. Aggregate and Workforce Planning 17. Supply Chain Management 18. Capacity Management 19. Synthesis-Pulling It All Together

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