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Este manual pretende mostrar la manera de'hacer más y más con menos y menos… de forma diferente'. El objetivo en una organización no es la reducción de los costes, sino la disminucióndel despilfarro y en el mejor de los casos sueliminación, es decir toda aquella actividad que no aporte valor añadido, lo que implica de forma directa la reducción de los costes y la mejora de la cuenta de resultados. El pensamiento lean manufacturing integra una serie de herramientas para llevar a cabo este propósito. Las empresas necesitan incorporar la excelencia en la función de producción para ser más competitivas en un mundo globalizado. La necesaria formación en esta área de conocimiento permitirá avanzar en esta dirección de vital importancia, y las herramientas lean pueden ejercer una notable contribución en este objetivo. En este libro se exponen dichas herramientas de una manera amena y cohesionada de principio a fin. En la elaboración de los contenidos se ha tenido en cuenta que, lo importante es pasar de la teoría a la práctica. Para satisfacer este requerimiento se han incluido ejemplos, rutinas de comportamiento y casos reales, que pueden servir de modelo o guía para liderar y desarrollar una implantación real.

The Sensei Way at Work follows in the wake of dozens of successful business books on the Toyota production system, lean enterprise, and the Toyota Way, yet it is unique. It identifies the five keys that sustain successful lean production in Western enterprises—a challenge that has stymied business leaders, managers, and lean coaches for decades.The first reason for our frequent inability to sustain the initial gains of lean startups is a misunderstanding of the Japanese term'kaizen mind.'Many mistranslate it as a'hunger'for business efficiency and cost reduction. In fact, kaizen mind is a psychology of'mindfulness'joined with'creativity.'And once evoked by a sensei, it can be applied (without training) when a leader mandates that employees and managers solve quality problems and redesign the work together.The second reason is our need to develop new change leaders who know'the way.'A sensei immerses prospects in a series of challenges until they learn to do the work of change with the mind of a leader, that is, from the states of presence, flow, and compassion.Lasting organizational transformation becomes possible, even inevitable, when its leaders learn the five keys and realize'one big thing'in the Sensei Way.

The BASICS Handbook is designed to show personnel at all levels within a manufacturing operations environment that, with easy to understand continuous improvement tools, they can make a difference to operational performance where safety, quality, cost, delivery, and people are paramount to business success. The tools and techniques throughout, based upon examples from the author's experience, demonstrate that no matter what industry, they can bring the desired added value.This book will help any manufacturing shop floor add value in terms of quality/cost and delivery performance. It will also show how using tools and techniques from the “coal face” out will improve process performance by using simple data collection and measurement – not only on outputs, but just as importantly on “critical to quality inputs” such as process parameters and their processing windows – to deliver the desired output KPIs. The power and confidence that this gives to local experts and processing teams enable them to make informed decisions, preventing drifts and non-conforming product: prevention being better than cure.The result of these changes is a tangible cultural impact on the shop floor, raising the level at which operating teams work and improving morale. BASICS will enable staff at all levels to understand their performance measures and produce sustainable results. The book contains practical tools, methods, and techniques that have been tried and tested by the author over a successful 30-year career as a contractor transforming variable processing and inconsistent KPI results.

O Planejamento e Controle da Produção (PCP) tem o propósito principal de alinhar a capacidade produtivacom a demanda dos clientes para reduzir sobrecargas, subcargas e ociosidades, e consequentemente, custos da operação. PCP é coração de indústria, pois nada se produz e nada se compra sem o PCP liberar ordens. Com a implantação correta do PCP a empresa ganha em agilidade e flexibilidade nas respostas ao mercado, organização do fluxo de materiais e informação, além da execução eficiente dos processos produtivos e de suprimentos, maior controlee monitoramento do que foi previsto comparativamente ao que está sendo realizado, dentre outros pontos importantes para uma gestão eficaz e eficiente da organização empresarial como um todo. Este livro tem como objetivo trazer ao leitor todo conhecimento pertinente ao PCP utilizado em empresas brasileiras e mundiais, bem como transformar seu pensamento de forma a se apaixonar pelo tema PCP, como o autor deste livro o é. Livro de leitura obrigatória para cursos de Engenharia de Produção, Engenharia Industrial, Administração de Empresas, Gestão Industrial, Gestão da Produção, Logística, e quaisquer cursos de Graduação e Pós-graduação nestas áreas.

Praxisorientierte Einführung in das ProduktionscontrollingDieses kompakte Buch führt in die Grundlagen des Produktionscontrollings ein und folgt einem ganzheitlichen Ansatz: Bevor überhaupt produziert werden kann, ist zu entscheiden, was produziert werden soll. Daran schließen sich Standortentscheidungen und der Aufbau einer Produktionsstätte an. Im Einklang mit der Strategie ist die Produktion in taktischer und operativer Hinsicht weiterzuentwickeln. Produkt- und Prozessinnovationen sind zu entwickeln, eine nicht mehr sinnvolle Produktion ist zu beenden. Krisenbedingt können temporäre Stilllegungen hilfreich sein. Nicht außen vor bleibt das operative Tagesgeschäft, für dessen Steuerung betriebswirtschaftliche Instrumente wie Kostenrechung und Kennzahlen zum Einsatz kommen.Aufgrund des sehr praxisorientieren Aufbaus wendet sich dieses Buch vor allem an Fach- und Führungskräfte in produzierenden Unternehmen, bspw. Führungskräfte mit einem ingenieurwissenschaftlichen Hintergrund, sowie an Studierende mit einem entsprechenden Schwerpunkt.Aus dem Inhalt Controlling in produzierenden Unternehmen: Controllinginstrumente Festlegungen zum langfristigen Produktionsprogramm: Produktionsprogramm, Target Costing, Fertigungstiefe Erstmalige Bereitstellung der benötigten Kapazitäten: finanzielle Mittel für einen Produktionsstandort Veränderungen bei bereits bestehenden Standorten: Innovationen, Investitionen Produktionsbegleitende Unterstützung des Managements: Kostenplanung, Kostenkontrolle, Preisveränderungen, kurzfristige Programmplanung Kennzahlen in produzierenden Unternehmen: Forschung und Entwicklung, Produktion und Prozesse, QualitätDr. Axel-Georg Schwellnuß ist Unternehmensberater und Verwalter der Professur für Rechnungswesen und Controlling am Institut für Duale Studiengänge der Fakultät Management, Kultur und Technik der Hochschule Osnabrück in Lingen.

This unique guide details a revolutionary approach to lean systems. Whereas traditional lean techniques suffer from less-than-inspiring results, Quantum Lean (QL) rethinks this subject and provides an overdue remedy. The key to this breakthrough is that QL approaches lean systems from an entirely different perspective than conventional methods. Instead of focusing on resource utilization, QL centers on achieving efficiency from the standpoint of a company's product. The benefits from this simple departure are vast and wide-ranging. In terms of speed, effectiveness, and sustainability, QL offers a superior process for transforming an enterprise and gives practitioners a way to avoid the shortcomings that are commonplace in conventional lean. In addition to being geared toward lean practitioners and consultants, the book is also useful for the C-suite, managers, supervisors, technical staff, and rank-and-file employees. It is intended for those who work in all economic sectors, including services, manufacturing, and government. Key Features: • Provides easy-to-understand QL analysis techniques that are much simpler than standard lean methods and offer uncomplicated rules of thumb for determining priorities and improvement targets • Details a win/win/win scenario for customers, employees, and shareholders that focuses on a company's product, avoids conflicting objectives, and enables every stakeholder to benefit • Identifies and eliminates previously overlooked waste by analyzing operations from a QL standpoint • Shows how to gain greater buy in and sustainability for lean initiatives by avoiding employee defensiveness and creating a genuine problem-solving mindset throughout an organization. • Removes the steep learning curve often associated with conventional techniques and promotes rapid implementation from analysis to results • WAV features an overall equipment effectiveness data collection form, a time study data collection sheet, and a standard work priority method, among other valuable documents—available from the Web Added Value Download Resource Center at www.jrosspub.com

This book examines the Capacitated Lot Sizing Problem (CLSP) in process industries. In almost all process industries, there are situations where products have short/long setup times, and the setup of the product and its subsequent production are carried over, across consecutive periods. The setup of a product is carried over across more than one successive period in the case of products having long setup times. A product having short setup has its setup time less than the capacity of the period in which it is setup. The setup is immediately followed by its production of the product and it may also be carried over, across successive time period(s). Many process industries require production of a product to occur immediately after its setup (without the presence of idle time between the setup and production of the product), and they also require the product to be continuously produced without any interruption. This book considers a single-machine, single-level and multiple-item CLSP problem. This book introduces the Capacitated Lot Sizing Problem with Production Carryover and Setup Crossover across periods (CLSP-PCSC). Mathematical models are proposed which are all encompassing that they can handle continuous manufacturing (as in process industries), and also situations where the setup costs and holding costs are product dependent and time independent/time dependent, with possible backorders, and with other appropriate adaptations. Comprehensive heuristics are proposed based on these mathematical models to solve the CLSP-PCSC. The performance of the proposed models and heuristics are evaluated using problem instances of various sizes. This book also covers mathematical models developed for the Capacitated Lot Sizing Problem with Production Carryover and Setup Crossover across periods, and with Sequence-Dependent Setup Times and Setup Costs (CLSP-SD-PCSC). These models allow the presence of backorders and also address real-life situations present in process industries such as production of a product starting immediately after its setup and its uninterrupted production carryover across periods, along with the presence of short/long setup times. Heuristics proposed for the CLSP-PCSC can be extended to address the CLSP problem with sequence dependent setup costs and setup times. All the models and heuristics proposed in this book address some real-life considerations present in process industries.

Much has been written about Toyota over the last 30 years focusing on both its products (superior vehicles), and its operational excellence based on its Toyota Production System (TPS). The Toyota Template details the critical concepts and methods that Taiichi Ohno implemented in developing the Toyota Production System. This book is different, however, regarding the parallels it draws between Toyota's pre-TPS condition and companies today who are attempting to become more efficient and Lean.In view of efficiency, excellence, culture, and general'Leanness,'many organizations are in the same position as Toyota prior to implementing what was once called the'Ohno System.'The building of TPS, with the goal to eliminate waste, evolved as problems were encountered and solutions put in place. A wonderful byproduct of these years of work was the growth of a problem-solving culture throughout Toyota that is unique in the business world. Currently, the Toyota Production System is well established. Though constantly improving, the historical picture is visible. The question many have tried to answer for their own companies is'how can they achieve world class efficiency?'The Toyota Template answers this question. This book: Explains the critically important elements of the Toyota Production System. Analyzes the sequence of implementation as the system developed. Places these elements in a logical order of implementation based on the history and current knowledge. In addition, it addresses the effect of each element on the culture. The author was prompted to write this book because of his personal observations of the failure of most attempts to develop Lean systems. What makes Toyota stand out is not any of the individual elements – It is crucially important to have all the elements together as a system. Most attempts have been focused on bits and pieces of the elements, or the tools.The Toyota Template is about the relevance of the Toyota Production System to'any type of business'today. It is not an all-inclusive explanation of every aspect of TPS. Rather, this book succinctly identifies the key elements, places them in a logical, sequential order of implementation, and explains how each contributed to the formation of the Toyota culture.

This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book. For undergraduate and graduate courses in operations management. A balanced approach to supply chain management Smart managers understand that firms do not act alone to produce products and services. Managing Supply Chain and Operations shows students who may all be involved, and how and why supply chain and operations management is important to their future careers. This text takes a balanced approach and, while rigorous, is not solely focused on quantitative material. The authors employ a four-part integrative model throughout the text that ties together the key functions of supply chain, operations, and customer relationship management that focuses on improving, innovating, and integrating in these areas. With cutting-edge material and an up-to-date global approach, the 2nd Edition is filled with scenarios and real-world examples that will prepare today's students to be tomorrow's successful managers. Also available with MyLab Operations Management By combining trusted authors'content with digital tools and a flexible platform, MyLab personalizes the learning experience and improves results for each student. Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyLab Management does not come packaged with this content. Students, if interested in purchasing this title with MyLab Management, ask your instructor to confirm the correct package ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MyLab Management, search for: 0134855442 / 9780134855448 Managing Supply Chain and Operations: An Integrative Approach Plus MyLab Operations Management with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package, 2/e Package consists of: 0134739833 / 9780134739830 Managing Supply Chain and Operations: An Integrative Approach, 2/e 0134855442 / 978013485548 Managing Supply Chain and Operations: An Integrative Approach Plus MyLab Operations Management with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package, 2/e

Das Buch bietet einen Einstieg in das Controlling und Management moderner Produktionssysteme mit Hilfe des SAP®-ERP-Systems. In praxisnahen Fallbeispielen und zahlreichen Screenshots lernt der Anwender Produktion, Materialplanung und Kostenplanung optimal zu steuern und zu überwachen. Leicht verständlich erschließt sich der Zugang zu den SAP®-Modulen CO®, PP®, MM® und PS®. ERP-Systeme gehören zu den Ankeranwendungen in vielen Branchen, aber auch zum Standardkanon einiger Studiengänge. Hier dient das Buch als Lehrunterlage.Die fünfte Auflage wurde, basierend auf dem neuesten IDES®-Release ECC®6.0, aktualisiert und erweitert.

Understand Operations Management in a Southern African context Operations Management: Global and Southern African Perspectives, 3rd edition, is based on the respected 7th edition of Operations Management by Slack, Chambers and Johnston. This fresh edition has been adapted to the unique Southern African context while keeping in mind the wider, global context. Despite revisions to the text, it maintains the carefully developed pedagogical approach and accessibility of the UK edition. Chapters begin and end with key questions and summary answers to help develop your thinking around the topics. The new edition comes packed with a host of new features including revised data and cases that reflect the Southern African context. Problems and applications hone your problem-solving skills and help you understand how theory applies to real-world application. Containing many features to help you get the best from your learning, this is an excellent textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as managers in practice.

The Oliver Wight Class A Standard for Business Excellence is the definitive, comprehensive statement of excellence in business today. Oliver Wight's Class A Standard is the accumulated practice and experience of Oliver Wight Consultants around the world. It reflects the effort and achievement of thousands of client companies who have used the standard, and the benchmark capability it enables, to differentiate their business. The Seventh Edition will be the standard of business excellence for all businesses. The standard will take the reader through an understanding of business maturity and how to drive increase maturity with corresponding sustainable business benefit. Using the Oliver Wight Proven Path, a journey of “Milestones” focused on strategic priorities that drive you through a series of defined Maturity Transitions, people, behavior and processes all become more aligned and focused. Updated content will include new information on collaboration, segmentation, value chain, analytics, optimization, and planning. Please note: Previous editions of this book were titled The Oliver Wight Class A Checklist for Business Excellence.

This book contributes a basic framework for and specific insights into interdisciplinary connections between production, logistics, and traffic subsystems. The book is divided into two parts, the first of which presents an overview of interdisciplinarity in value-added networks and freight traffic. This includes an introduction to the topic and a description of an integrated framework of production, logistics, and traffic. Furthermore, it describes the barriers and challenges of interdisciplinary decision-making and project management. In turn, the second part presents domain-specific perspectives on interdisciplinary decision support, exploring domain-specific challenges of interdisciplinary interfaces and requirements for management methods and instruments from the standpoint of production management, logistics management, traffic management, and information technologies.

This utterly unique how-to supply chain management work is written as mystery to help engage readers. It fills the need for an accessible work on supply chain management skills that helps strengthen, improve, and adapt the management of industries to meet the swiftly changing needs of a global market. The Missing Links follows a small furniture company whose owner has died under suspicious circumstances, leaving his musician daughter in charge. The business newcomer encounters a multitude of problems–high work-in-progress inventory, unsafe working conditions, conflicts between two in-house factions, longstanding customers beginning to withdraw their business, and increased competition. Can the factory ever be profitable again? The work follows the journey of the company to utilize industry standards, including total quality, lean, total productive maintenance, flow management, as well as the newest demand driven methodologies that are changing modern supply chain management. “Clues” dispersed throughout the manuscript point readers in the direction of an affiliated website where they will find 33 appendices of charts, forms, and additional improvement information that can be customized, regardless of size of the company, or industry. FeaturesUnique approach similar to the bestselling work, The Goal–wraps a how-to book on supply chain management in a mystery novel.Introduces the effectiveness and simplicity of new demand driven methodologies (DDMRP), along with total quality, lean, TPM, and flow management.Written by an award-winning French author, and President of Fapics, the French Association of Supply Chain Management.“Clues” throughout the manuscript point to 33 full-color appendices on an affiliated website that will be updated regularly after the book is published.Ties in perfectly with the Demand Driven Institute's certification programs.

Das nunmehr in dritter Auflage vorliegende Buch zeigt auf Grundlage des Hannoveraner Trichtermodells auf, welche Stellhebel Unternehmen nutzen können, um die Ziele sicher zu erreichen. Unternehmen mit hoher Termintreue, kurzen Lieferzeiten und niedrigen Beständen wachsen schneller als der Wettbewerb und erzielen höhere Gewinne.Anwender finden einfache und wirksame Verfahren für die Unternehmenspraxis. Studenten erhalten einen umfassenden Überblick über Ziele, Aufgaben und Verfahren der Fertigungssteuerung.'Das Buch zeichnet sich durch eine überzeugende Systematik, sorgfältige internationale Recherchen, transparente Darstellung und unmittelbare Anwendbarkeit aus. Ich bin davon überzeugt, dass es zu einem Standardwerk der PPS-Literatur wird.'Hans-Peter Wiendahl'Das Fachgebiet der Fertigungssteuerung wird aus wissenschaftlicher und methodischer Sicht sehr überzeugend aufgearbeitet und dargestellt. Sowohl der Wissenschaftler als auch Praktiker werden davon profitieren.'Peter Nyhuis

Selecting a suitable production control policy is a challenging task for managers because the superiority of one control over the other is controversial. This book analyzes pull production systems and provides a guideline to choose and implement a proper control policy in production processes. By employing a proper control policy the maximum possible throughput of the production system can be achieved with the minimum work-in-process inventory. Kanban, CONWIP, and base-stock as wellknown pull control policies are analyzed and analytical comparisons among them in multistage serial and assembly production processes are presented. Illustrated by carefully chosen examples and supported by analytical solutions, discussions provided in the book clarify the complexity of the comparisons that show there is no general superiority among the control systems. Th e book explains which structural parameters decide the superiority of one control scheme to the others, and how they are related. Given a confi guration of parameters, such as processing times and number of cards employed in the system, the superior control policy can be selected.

Dieses Buch stellt die vielfältigen Prozesse, Einflussgrößen und Perspektiven der Logistikindustrie anschaulich dar. Dabei reicht das Themenspektrum von technologischen Treibern wie Cloud Computing, mobiler Echtzeitverfolgung von Lieferprozessen oder Umwelttechnologien über konzeptionelle Aspekte von Kontraktlogistik, Handel oder Immobilien bis hin zu Fragen des Versicherungswesens, zu den Folgen des demografischen Wandels und des Imageproblems der Logistik. Die Autoren – renommierte Vertreter der Logistik oder kooperierender Branchen, Unternehmensberater und Wissenschaftler mit langjähriger Erfahrung auf dem Logistiksektor – bieten einen spannenden Blick auf die gegenwärtigen und zukünftigen Trends der Logistik.

Das vorliegende Buches stellt ausgewählte Planungsmodelle sowie Ansätze und Verfahren zur Lösung von Planungsproblemen der operativen Produktionsplanung und -steuerung vor und analysiert diese. Im Mittelpunkt der Diskussion stehen zwei wichtige, höchst praxisrelevante Aspekte, die in der aktuellen Forschung intensiv diskutiert werden: die Berücksichtigung der knappen Kapazitäten und der Umgang mit Unsicherheit. Die Autoren orientieren sich an der operativen Produktionsplanung und -steuerung als Rückgrat der Planung von Produktionsprozessen in kommerziell verfügbaren IT-Systemen. Umsetzungen dieser Ansätze in der industriellen Praxis werden exemplarisch erläutert. Dadurch wendet sich das Buch an Wissenschaftlicher, vor allem an Doktoranden, die sich über den aktuellen Stand der Forschung informieren wollen, ebenso wie an Anwender, die die Planung in ihren Unternehmen verbessern wollen.

​Die ökonomische Gestaltung von Instandhaltungsmaßnahmen ist ein relevantes Thema in der Betriebswirtschaft: Durch eine Verbesserung des Anlagenzustands soll deren Leistungsfähigkeit erhöht werden. Der Fall externer Instandhaltungsdienstleister gewinnt in der Praxis immer mehr an Bedeutung. Hierbei ist eine dezentrale Koordination der Produktions- und Instandhaltungsprozesse notwendig, die der Autonomie von Produktion und Instandhaltung gerecht wird. Michael Kaluzny schlägt hierzu einen Ansatz auf der Grundlage einer Kanban-ähnlichen Steuerung vor, bei dem sowohl von der Produktion als auch von der Instandhaltung Einstellungen vorgenommen werden können. In diesem Kontext behandelt der Autor die zustandsorientierte Instandhaltung und die dynamische Reihenfolgeplanung von Instandhaltungsaufträgen.​

Identifying and customizing suitable control strategies is a challenging task, especially when production systems have to cope with variable demands, forecast error, and unstable processes. The focus of this book lies on helping companies with complex and discrete production systems to tailor a production control strategy to their needs. Thereby, the mutual merits of “push” and “pull” systems are taken into account, leading to hybrid strategies. Consequently, the book addresses practitioners who are interested in looking behind the scenes and into the physics of production control. A real-life case study demonstrates the practical applicability of the presented framework.

In recent years there has been a tremendous upsurge of interest in manufac­ turing systems design and analysis. Large industrial companies have realized that their manufacturing facilities can be a source of tremendous opportunity if managed well or a huge corporate liability if managed poorly. In particular industrial managers have realized the potential of well designed and installed production planning and control systems. Manufacturing, in an environment of short product life cycles and increasing product diversity, looks to tech­ niques such as manufacturing resource planning, Just In Time (lIT) and total quality control among others to meet the challenge. Customers are demanding high quality products and very fast turn around on orders. Manufacturing personnel are aware of the lead time from receipt of order to delivery of completed orders at the customer's premises. It is clear that this production lead time is, for the majority of manufacturing firms, greatly in excess of the actual processing or manufacturing time. There are many reasons for this, among them poor coordination between the sales and manufacturing function. Some are within the control of the manufacturing function. Others are not.

Die Produktionsplanung und -steuerung (PPS) ist vor dem Hintergrund des tief greifenden strukturellen Wandels des Wettbewerbsumfeldes sowie einer zunehmenden Volatilität der Märkte von großer Bedeutung für die produzierende Industrie. Die Auftragsabwicklung erfolgt heute in Netzwerken und die PPS erstreckt sich über die Unternehmensgrenzen hinweg. Für den Praktiker fehlen insbesondere für die unternehmensübergreifende PPS anwendbare Gestaltungsmethoden, die auf fundierten theoretischen Grundlagen basieren.Der Band 2 zeigt neuere technologische und organisatorische Entwicklungen rund um das Produktionsmanagement und bietet so eine valide Orientierungshilfe zur mittel- und langfristig tragfähigen Gestaltung der unternehmensinternen und -übergreifenden PPS.

'This book presents computational intelligence methods for addressing supply chain issues, emphasizing techniques that provide effective solutions to complex supply chain problems and exhibit superior performance to other methods of operations research'--Provided by publisher.

In two volumes, Planning Production and Inventories in the Extended Enterprise: A State of the Art Handbook examines production planning across the extended enterprise against a backdrop of important gaps between theory and practice. The early chapters describe the multifaceted nature of production planning problems and reveal many of the core complexities. The middle chapters describe recent research on theoretical techniques to manage these complexities. Accounts of production planning system currently in use in various industries are included in the later chapters. Throughout the two volumes there are suggestions on promising directions for future work focused on closing the gaps. Included in Volume 1 are papers on the Historical Foundations of Manufacturing Planning and Control; Advanced Planning and Scheduling Systems; Sustainable Product Development and Manufacturing; Uncertainty and Production Planning; Demand Forecasting; Production Capacity; Data in Production and Supply Chain Planning; Financial Uncertainty in SC Models; Field Based Research in Production Control; Collaborative SCM; Sequencing and Coordination in Outsourcing and Subcontracting Operations; Inventory Management; Pricing, Variety and Inventory Decisions for Substitutable Items; Perishable and Aging Inventories; Optimization Models of Production Planning Problems; Aggregate Modeling of Manufacturing Systems; Robust Stability Analysis of Decentralized Supply Chains; Simulation in Production Planning; and Simulation-Optimization in Support of Tactical and Strategic Enterprise Decisions. Included in Volume 2 are papers on Workload and Lead-Time Considerations under Uncertainty; Production Planning and Scheduling; Production Planning Effects on Dynamic Behavior of A Simple Supply Chain; Supply and Demand in Assemble-to-Order Supply Chains; Quantitative Risk Assessment in Supply Chains; A Practical Multi-Echelon Inventory Model with Semiconductor Application; Supplier Managed Inventory for CustomItems with Long Lead Times; Decentralized Supply Chain Formation; A Cooperative Game Approach to Procurement Network Formation; Flexible SC Contracts with Options; Build-to-Order Meets Global Sourcing for the Auto Industry; Practical Modeling in Automotive Production; Discrete Event Simulation Models; Diagnosing and Tuning a Statistical Forecasting System; Enterprise-Wide SC Planning in Semiconductor and Package Operations; Production Planning in Plastics; SC Execution Using Predictive Control; Production Scheduling in The Pharmaceutical Industry; Computerized Scheduling for Continuous Casting in Steelmaking; and Multi-Model Production Planning and Scheduling in an Industrial Environment.

The concrete tools manufacturing enterprises need to thrive in today's global environment For a manufacturing enterprise to succeed in this current volatile economic environment, a revolution is needed in restructuring its three main components: product design, manufacturing, and business model. The Global Manufacturing Revolution is the first book to focus on these issues. Based on the author's long-standing course work at the University of Michigan, this unique volume proposes new technologies and new business strategies that can increase an enterprise's speed of responsiveness to volatile markets, as well as enhance the integration of its own engineering and business. Introduced here are innovations to the entire manufacturing culture: An original approach to the analysis of manufacturing paradigms Suggested methods for developing creativity in product design A quantitative analysis of manufacturing system configurations A new manufacturing'reconfigurable'paradigm, in which the speed of responsiveness is the prime business goal An original approach to using information technology for workforce empowerment The book also offers analysis and original models of previous manufacturing paradigms'technical and business dimensions—including mass production and mass customization—in order to fully explain the current revolution in global manufacturing enterprises. In addition, 200 original illustrations and pictures help to clarify the topics. Globalization is creating both opportunities and challenges for companies that manufacture durable goods. The tools, theories, and case studies in this volume will be invaluable to engineers pursuing leadership careers in the manufacturing industry, as well as to leaders of global enterprises and business students who are motivated to lead manufacturing enterprises and ensure their growth.

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Aufgrund der komplexen Baustrukturen und der oft geringen Losgrößen sind leistungselektronische Systeme häufig mit einer kostenintensiven Montage verbunden. Durch die Betrachtung unterschiedlichster Aspekte vom Design über die Produktion von Leistungselektronik bis hin zu ergänzenden Dienstleistungen und der Mitarbeiterqualifizierung werden Entscheidungshilfen für erfolgreiche Produkte im globalen Wettbewerb gegeben. Das Konzept dabei ist die Kombination technologischer Inhalte und organisatorischer Methoden für die integrale Auslegung von Produkt und Montage.

This book aims at assisting global industry in its challenge of expansion within a world of ever increasing globalisation. The book wants to make the reader aware of the importance of transparent business processes and provides knowledge c- bining latest scientific findings and best practice in the high-tech industry. Major Companies provide comments and solutions drawing on their experience with - gard to their special requirements with regard to Supply Chain Event Management (SCEM). Some model cases and examples give practical solutions in a tangible manner. Leading scientists in companies, managers, universities and research - stitutes explain and provide information about probable future requirements - garding SCEM development. This book will assist not only the larger companies but also any smaller ent- prises, such as Interturbine Logistik GmbH, in their efforts towards international speed delivery, service technology and competitiveness. It serves the common goal of networks transparency hereby offering significant cost reduction and p- viding ground for service performance enhancement, creating a base for total or partial business re-engineering. For this achievement I like to express my admiration to the University of Aachen (RWTH) that has been able to combine science and the highly performing industry in order to gather all knowledge available at present in this compacted format (for more on this topic, see article by Raschid Ijioui on page 267 et seq.).

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Lot streaming is a process of breaking a batch of jobs into smaller lots, and then processing these in an overlapping fashion on the machines. This important concept can significantly improve the overall performance of a production process, and thereby make the operation of a manufacturing system lean. Flow Shop Lot Streaming introduces the reader to this significant production process, presents various analysis techniques, and allows the reader to quickly become conversant with the state-of-the-art techniques necessary to embark on new research directions. This text begins with an introduction to and a brief historical perspective of the lot streaming problem, and continues with generic mathematical models for this problem. Flow Shop Lot Streaming presents systematic analysis, algorithms, key ideas and illustrative examples using 2-machine, 3-machine, and the general m-machine flow shop lot streaming problems. Flow Shop Lot Streaming will appeal to production and operations management engineers, researchers, and academics interested in implementing the latest models, analysis, and algorithms in the study of manufacturing systems.

Die Produktionsplanung und -steuerung (PPS) ist vor dem Hintergrund des tief greifenden strukturellen Wandels des Wettbewerbsumfeldes von großer Bedeutung für die produzierende Industrie. Die Auftragsabwicklung erfolgt heute in Netzwerken und die PPS erstreckt sich über die Unternehmensgrenzen hinweg. Für den Praktiker fehlen insbesondere für die unternehmensübergreifende PPS anwendbare Gestaltungsmethoden, die auf fundierten theoretischen Grundlagen basieren. Das Buch stellt das Aachener PPS-Modell mit seinen Komponenten, Inhalten und Anwendungsbereichen vor. Das Modell erlaubt die effiziente Analyse, Gestaltung und Optimierung von inner- und überbetrieblichen Auftragsabwicklungsprozessen. Damit eignet es sich besonders als Grundlage zur Reorganisation der PPS. Mit der 3. Auflage liegt dieses bereits heute als Standardwerk bezeichnete Buch in vollständig überarbeiteter Version vor.

Die Herstellung moderner Erzeugnisse der Hochtechnologie in den Industrieländern erfordert eine starke Automatisierung. Neben dem technischen Aspekt ist es notwendig, Produktionsplanungs- und Steuerungsverfahren, die die Möglichkeiten der modernen Informationsverarbeitung berücksichtigen, weiterzuentwickeln. Lars Mönch arbeitet Anforderungen an moderne Produktionssteuerungsysteme für komplexe Produktionssysteme heraus und entwickelt ein neuartiges Rahmenwerk, das aus Steuerungsverfahren und Softwareagenten zur rechentechnischen Umsetzung besteht. Er identifiziert Softwareagenten zur Abbildung der Steuerungsfunktionalität, entwickelt neue verteilte Lösungsheuristiken für die Entscheidungseinheiten der Hierarchieebenen und untersucht deren Leistungsfähigkeit. Der Autor entwirft eine agentenbasierte Softwarearchitektur, die dem verteilten hierarchischen Charakter seines vorgeschlagenen Steuerungssystems Rechnung trägt, und schlägt eine Methodik zur simulationsbasierten Leistungsbewertung des Steuerungsrahmenwerkes vor.

Unternehmen mit kurzen Lieferzeiten, hoher Liefertreue und niedrigen Beständen wachsen schneller als der Wettbewerb und erzielen höhere Gewinne. Das Buch zeigt auf Basis aktueller Forschungsergebnisse des Instituts für Fabrikanlagen und Logistik der Universität Hannover auf, wie Unternehmen diese logistischen Ziele systematisch erreichen können. Praktiker finden eine Fülle konkreter Anregungen für die Fertigungssteuerung. Studenten erhalten einen umfassenden Überblick über die Aufgaben und Verfahren der Fertigungssteuerung. Wissenschaftlern erschließen sich neue Erkenntnisse durch die methodische Bewertung und Erweiterung etablierter und neuer Ansätze zur Fertigungssteuerung.

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5th Werner Kern Award for Productivity Research 2005 Kanban control systems bear a great potential to significantly improve operations. A company may reap the full benefits of kanban control only after determining an optimal or near-optimal system configuration. To do that, methods are needed to evaluate the performance and operating costs of individual system configurations. We propose an innovative construction-kit approach that enables us to build stochastic analytical models of a large class of single- and multi-product kanban systems. The presented construction-kit approach may be extended and augmented in various directions.

In a world where customer demand is rewriting the rules of manufacturing success, yesterday's best practices may actually hinder companies more than help them. The Quantum Leap: Next Generation documents the forces shaping today's demad-driven markets and equips organizations with the knowledge and insight to navigate the transition to Demand Flow Technology (DFT) - a unique combination of innovative management philosophy, revolutionary manufacturing practices, and flexible employees.The first edition of The Quantum Leap - and its French, German, Italian and Spanish translations - played a key role in some of the most dramatic manufacturing success stories of the past decade. This update of John R. Costanza's original worldwide bestseller examines the impact and implications of recent industry trends, new technologies, and emerging business practices on manufacturing practices. But the focus remains the same: how to build sustainable competitive advantage by responding to customer demand in real time, every day. To remain competitive in today's dynamic global economy, companies must become demand-driven. This comprehensive desk reference provides a proven mathematically based roadmap for implementing DFT.

While other books describe production control from an idealistic perspective, this book explains the real work of successful production control. The reader will learn: how the scheduling task can be decomposed and organized; how the production control department can be structured; how to hire and train schedulers; and how software tools can be used to augment the scheduler's skill. Suggestions for setting reasonable expectations for their use and a how to avoid implementation problems are provided. Readers will discover what production control involves beyond MRP-II, Gantt Charts, and other mechanical tools. Numerous assessment tools are also provided and much more.

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Kanban Made Simple is the first simple'how-to'guide for incorporating the just-in-time ingenuity of the Kanban system into any manufacturing environment. From the Japanese word for'visual record', the technique dictates that suppliers deliver parts to the warehouse only as they are needed, reducing storage in the production area. Using before-and-after case studies, this easy-to-follow guide contains information on establishing project goals, forming a Kanban team, and designing the process.

The book is divided into two sections:Section 1 - Introduces the subject as a whole and describes the key generic tools and techniques to support the manufacturing organisation.Section 2 - Modern planning and control methods at a detailed level. - Each chapter begins with a summary of key points and objectives to aid learning - Case studies included throughout to illustrate the key elements of the text in a practical context - Introduces a range of systems and management topics supported by examples and case studies

In this classic text, Taiichi Ohno--inventor of the Toyota Production System and Lean manufacturing--shares the genius that sets him apart as one of the most disciplined and creative thinkers of our time. Combining his candid insights with a rigorous analysis of Toyota's attempts at Lean production, Ohno's book explains how Lean principles can improve any production endeavor. A historical and philosophical description of just-in-time and Lean manufacturing, this work is a must read for all students of human progress. On a more practical level, it continues to provide inspiration and instruction for those seeking to improve efficiency through the elimination of waste.