Factory Physics

The Lessons Of History. Manufacturing In America -- Inventory Control : From Eoq To Rop -- The Mrp Crusade -- From The Jit Revolution To Lean Manufacturing -- What Went Wrong -- Factory Physics. A Science Of Manufacturing -- Basic Factory Dynamics -- Variability Basics -- The Corrupting Influence Of Variability -- Push And Pull Production Systems -- The Human Element In Operations Management -- Total Quality Manufacturing -- Principles In Practice. A Pull Planning Framework -- Shop Floor Control -- Production Scheduling -- Aggregate And Workforce Planning -- Supply Chain Management -- Capacity Management -- Synthesis : Pulling It All Together. Wallace J. Hopp, Mark L. Spearman. Reissue Of 3rd Ed. Previously Published: New York, Ny : Mcgraw-hill/irwin/irwin, 2008. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 697-705) And Index. Our economy and future way of life depend on how well American manufacturing managers adapt to the dynamic, globally competitive landscape and evolve their firms to keep pace. A major challenge is how to structure the firm s environment so that it attains the speed and low cost of high-volume flow lines while retaining the flexibility and customization potential of a low-volume job shop. The book's three parts are organized according to three categories of skills required by managers and engineers: basics, intuition, and synthesis. Part I reviews traditional operations management techniques and identifies the necessary components of the science of manufacturing. Part II presents the core concepts of the book, beginning with the structure of the science of manufacturing and a discussion of the systems approach to problem solving. Other topics include behavioral tendencies of manufacturing plants, push and pull production systems, the human element in operations management, and the relationship between quality and operations. Chapter conclusions include main points and observations framed as manufacturing laws. In Part III, the lessons of Part I and the laws of Part II are applied to address specific manufacturing management issues in detail. The authors compare and contrast common problems, including shop floor control, long-range aggregate planning, workforce planning, and capacity management. A main focus in Part III is to help readers visualize how general concepts in Part II can be applied to specific problems. Written for both engineering and management students, the authors demonstrate the effectiveness of a rule-based and data driven approach to operations planning and control. They advance an organized framework from which to evaluate management practices and develop useful intuition about manufacturing systems[Source : 4e de couv.] After a brief introductory chapter, Factory Physics 3/e is divided into three parts: I - The Lessons of History; II - Factory Physics; and III - Principles in Practice. The scientific approach to manufacturing and supply chain management, developed in Part II, is unique to this text. No other text or professional book provides a rigorous, principles-based foundation for manufacturing management. The Third Edition offers tighter connections between Lean Manufacturing, MRP/ERP, Six Sigma, Supply Chain Management, and Factory Physics. In addition to enhancing the historical overview of how these systems evolved, the authors show explicitly how users can achieve Lean Manufacturing objectives (faster response, less inventory) using the integration aspects of MRP/ERP/SCM systems along with the variance analysis methods of Six Sigma. Factory Physics provides the overarching framework that coordinates all of these initiatives into a single-focused strategy (Provided by publisher)