High Performance Manufacturing
Global Perspectives
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Beschreibung
The most thorough, valid set of findings on global manufacturingand winning practices worldwide
This eye-opening resource sets a new standard for howmanufacturing practices are viewed in today's business world. Theresults of an extensive research project spanning 164 factories inthe United States, Japan, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdomdetermine the best path to high performance manufacturing. This isone of the first books to offer comparisons of manufacturing inthese five countries, addressing their current issues and providinginsights that affect manufacturing worldwide.
Researchers from such universities as the London BusinessSchool, Wake Forest University, Yokohama University, and theUniversity of Minnesota detail how manufacturing leaders areraising the bar on practices in product development, organizationalalignment, quality management, and more. Covering the vital areasof machinery, electronics, and auto components, they examine themost effective methods and techniques across a host of functionswithin manufacturing-looking at how everything from new technologyand information systems to human resource practices andmanufacturing strategy should be introduced into a plantenvironment to achieve high performance manufacturing.
Using data from companies such as Texas Instruments, Honda,Sony, Prince, John Deere, and Caterpillar, High PerformanceManufacturing takes a comprehensive view by showing how to selectand integrate the practices that best fit a plant's particularsituation-the most critical and difficult task to achieve inpractice. With its strong research base and high caliber ofcontributors, this unique volume will inspire managers of anycountry or industry to set their own path to high performancemanufacturing.
Autor*in
Roger G. Schroeder
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