Operations Management in Automotive Industries : From Industrial Strategies to Production Resources Management, Through the Industrialization Process and Supply Chain to Pursue Value Creation

"This book has proved its worth over the years as a text for courses in Production Management at the Faculty of Automotive Engineering in Turin, Italy, but deserves a wider audience as it presents a compendium of basics on Industrial Management, since it covers all major topics required. It treats all subjects from product development and "make or buy"-decision strategies to the manufacturing systems setting and management through analysis of the main resources needed in production and finally exploring the supply chain management and the procurement techniques. The very last chapter recapitulates the previous ones by analysing key management indicators to pursue the value creation that is the real purpose of every industrial enterprise. As an appendix, a specific chapter is dedicated to the basics of production management where all main relevant definitions, techniques and criteria are treated, including some numerical examples, in order to provide an adequate foundation for understanding the other chapters. This book will be of use not only to Automotive Engineering students but a wide range of readers who wish to gain insight in the world of automotive engineering and the automotive industry in general." -- Font no determinada Front Matter....Pages i-xxii Historical Outlines and Industrial Strategies for Automotive Industries....Pages 1-43 From Project to Product....Pages 45-65 Manufacturing Engineering and Equipment Efficiency Evaluation....Pages 67-86 Work Analysis and Labour Productivity Evaluation Criteria....Pages 87-113 Manufacturing System Management and Maintenance Criteria....Pages 115-139 Logistics and Supply Chain Basics for Automotive Application....Pages 141-168 Global Purchasing Operations....Pages 169-182 Quality Management and Continuous Improvement....Pages 183-200 Value Creation and Final Considerations....Pages 201-203 Back Matter....Pages 205-245