Production and Operations Management

Contents Preface 1 Production and operations management an introduction 2 Production planning and control 3 Production capacity 4 Operation strategy and control 5 Plant layout 6 Plant location 7 Productivity production order and work study 8 Routing scheduling CPM and PERT analysis 9 The product life cycle and mass production and batch production 10 Material management 11 Inventory control 12 Forecasting in production and operations management 13 Quality control 14 Linear programming 15 Plant maintenance 16 Role of computers in production and operations management 17 Production information systems 18 Just in time systems and goal and philosophy 19 Concept of pull and push production system 20 Process capability analysis 21 ISO standards series 22 Business process re-engineering 23 Lean agile e-manufacturing virtual and collaborative manufacturing 24 Waste management 25 Project management Glossary IndexThis book is an attempt to keep our readers abreast of contemporary trends in production and operations management Our major objective while presenting this book before the readers is to make the subject interesting and hence special care has been taken to make it as simple to understand and reader friendly as possibleThe entire book is divided in 25 chapters The arrangement of chapters is logical This edition contains learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter supported by illustrations and tables Review question have been put at the end of each chapter 332 pp.