Maximize factory output with proven planning and cost-control methods
Take a practical, structured approach to bringing your production up to capacity. This concise guide explains how to schedule work, maintain quality, and keep costs in line with actual results. It blends clear concepts with ready-to-use forms and procedures that help you organize people, materials, and machines around a single plan.
In this edition, you’ll find step-by-step guidance on planning and dispatching, methods for standardizing material and labor costs, and approaches to building reliable cost data for better decision making. It emphasizes centralizing planning, measuring performance, and using cost data to improve operations without sacrificing quality.
- Learn how to schedule work in production departments for smoother flow and higher throughput
- Discover cost-keeping practices that connect shop data to the manager’s decisions
- See how to estimate, allocate, and verify costs across materials, labor, and overhead
- Explore forms and procedures that support standardization and better control of operations
Ideal for managers, supervisors, and industrial engineers seeking a practical handbook of factory planning, cost control, and operation improvement.