Handbook of Reliability Engineering and Management
Clyde F. Coombs (Editor), W. Grant Ireson (Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1996; Amazon.com: $79.50
Concurrent Engineering; Shortening Lead Times, Raising Quality, and Lowering Costs (Product Develop . . . .
John R. Hartley / Hardcover / Published 1994 / Amazon.com: $60.00
Engineered Work Measurement : The Principles, Techniques, and Data of Methods-Time Measurement Background and Foundations of Work Measurement and Met
Delmar W. Karger, Franklin H. Bayha / Hardcover / Published 1987 / Amazon.com: $36.95
Guide to Reliability Engineering : Data, Analysis, Applications, Implementation, and Management
C. Sundararajan, C. Sandararajan / Hardcover / Published 1991 ; Amazon.com: $62.95
Modern production management, a short course in planning and designing productive systems
Elwood Spencer Buffa
Buffa is a widely read expert in Production and Operations Management. Unfortunately I have no other details on this work I found in an amazon.com search.
Production & Operations Management, 7th Edition.
Chase & Aquilano / Chicago: Irwin., 1995. / Another excellent but more quantitative approach to the subject.
Operations management : a systems approach through text and cases
Charles John Constable
Linking Flexibility, Uncertainty and Variability in Manufacturing Systems : Managing Un-Planned Change in the Automative Industry
Henrique Luiz Correa / Hardcover / Published 1994 / Amazon.com: $58.95 (Special Order)
Attaining Manufacturing Excellence : Just-In-Time, Total Quality, Total People Involement (Dow Jones-Irwin/Apics Series in Production Management)
Robert W. Hall / Hardcover / Published 1988 / Amazon.com: $38.50 ~ You Save: $16.50 (30%)
Management in crisis : implementing computer integrated manufacturing in Canada : a report
Internal Service Excellence : A Manager's Guide to Building World-Class Internal Service Unit Performance
Richard D. Hays / Hardcover / Published 1996 ; Amazon.com: $18.87 ~ You Save: $8.08 (30%)
Making It in America by Jerry Jasinowski and Robert Hamrin. Simon & Schuster, 350 pages, $25.
American manufacturers now stand tall, and this book tells how fifty of them did it. Our best companies are empowering workers, training them extensively, innovating, exceeding customer expectations, going global, and pursuing quality, speed, and agility. Companies profiled include Rubbermaid, Intel, and many lesser-known names doing extraordinary things. Best Business Books, 1995
Operations Management - A Value Driven Approach
Steven Melnyk & Denzler, Irwin Press, 1996.
The emphasis is on important issues that really are used and addressed in industry.
Total Manufacturing Management : Production Organization for the 1990s
Giorgio Merli / Published 1990
Production Systems : Planning, Analysis, and Control
James L. Riggs / Published 1992
Topics in Just-In-Time Management
Marc J. Schniederjans / Published 1992
Productivity Management: Planning, Evaluation, Control & Improvement
Sink / 1985 / ISBN: 0-471-89176-2 . $85
Operations Management : Systems Approach (Gc Principles of Management Ser.)
Starr / Published 1997
Production/Operations Management, 5th Edition.
Stevenson, W. J. / Chicago: Irwin., 1996. / Very good survey of this field.
New Technology and Manufacturing Management : Strategic Choices for Flexible Production Systems (New Technologies and Work)
Malcolm Warner, et al / Published 1990
Mass Production Management : The Design and Operation of Production Flow-Line Systems
Ray Wild / Published 1973
The Machine that Changed the World by James P Womack, Daniel T Jones and Daniel Roos
This is a classic work based on a five-year study on the future of the automobile. Although not a Deming book in any way, this masterful treatise about Lean Production around the world shows quite clearly that the Japanese are not the only nation with the ability to achieve stunning results. Nor is this a book for just the automotive industry; everybody in manufacturing should read it! 323pp 1990
ISBN 0 89256 350 8 ; Ref.No. B72 £18.00 HB Reading Class C
Customer-Driven Manufacturing
J. C. Wortmann (Editor), et al / Hardcover / Published 1997 / Amazon.com: $109.95
New Technologies for Production Management Systems
H. Yoshikawa, J.L. Burbidge (Editor) / Published 1987
Complete Plant Operations Handbook : A Guide to Cost Reduction, Quality Control, and On-Time Delivery
Allan Ishmael Young / Hardcover / Published 1990 / Amazon.com: $41.97 ~ You Save: $17.98 (30%)
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