Manufacturing Strategy, 1st Edition: How to Formulate and Implement a Winning Plan

by John Miltenburg

By identifying one of seven process models appropriate for your business, you can determine the appropriate outputs and how to change to better process models as your business needs change. Learn the improvement techniques currently used in manufacturing in both people-oriented methods and machine-oriented improvement approaches. Chapters Manufacturing Outputs Production Systems Manufacturing Levers: Designing and Changing Production Systems Competitive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1563270714
• ISBN13: 9781563270710
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Productivity Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.8" x 11.3"

Customer Reviews

Great high-level description of manufacturing's strategic capabilities

This book clearly indicates the pros and cons to different production systems and the situations in which a plant should choose one or the other, as well as the various roles that a plant could occupy in a larger manufacturing network. The author does a good job of showing the multiple sources of competitive advantage that manufacturing may provide to a company and highlights the need to place manufacturing in the strategic decision making process, beyond the simple-minded low cost manufacturing strategy. This book presents a clear, concise methodology for evaluating the manufacturing system, while remaining focused on the strategic needs of the company.