Manufacturing Strategy: How to Formulate and Implement a Winning Plan, 2nd Edition
- 7h 43m
- John Miltenburg
- CRC Press
- 2005
To stay competitive and meet market expectations in a global economy, both domestic and foreign companies must realign their manufacturing processes, make improvements, and increase their manufacturing capabilities. With large numbers of employees working in a network of domestic and foreign facilities, production processes are as varied as the products being produced. Manufacturing managers need a manufacturing plan or strategy that will bring structure to this complex environment.
In Manufacturing Strategy: How to Formulate and Implement a Winning Plan, 2nd Edition, John Miltenburg offers a sensible and systematic method to: (1) evaluate domestic and foreign factories and international manufacturing and (2) plan the appropriate manufacturing strategy to be first in the market.
Incorporating comments and suggestions from managers who used the first edition of Manufacturing Strategy, John Miltenburg expands and improves on his focus in the areas of: International Manufacturing — where the focus is on a company's international network of factories; Competitive Strategy — where managers must understand the role manufacturing strategy plays in their company's business strategy; and Manufacturing Programs — showing how programs such as quality management, six sigma, agile manufacturing, and supply chain management fit within the manufacturing strategy.
Benefits and features:
- Outlines in operational detail a general process for formulating manufacturing strategy and developing an implementation plan.
- Applies to domestic or international companies, both large and small.
- Includes two comprehensive, easy to use worksheets: a manufacturing strategy worksheet for a single factory, and one for a manufacturing network.
- Examines the strategic conditions in which popular change methodologies should be used.
Manufacturing Strategy gives managers a common language for dealing with manufacturing problems at both strategic and operational levels. It improves communication between manufacturing managers and those outside manufacturing (who will now have a better understanding of what manufacturing can and cannot do).
About the Author
John Miltenburg is a professor of production and management science in the Michael DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Before joining McMaster University, Dr. Miltenburg worked for General Motors.
In this Book
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Manufacturing Strategy—How to Formulate and Implement a Winning Plan, 2nd Edition
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Publisher’s Message
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Introduction
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Principles of Competitive Strategy
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Partnerships, Challenges, and Responses
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Manufacturing Outputs and Production Systems
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Manufacturing Levers and Capability
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Competitive Analysis: Selecting the Best Production System
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Framework For Manufacturing Strategy In A Factory
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Principles of International Competitive Strategy
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Manufacturing In the World’s Major Trading Regions
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International Manufacturing Networks
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Network Outputs, Levers, and Capabilities
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Factory-Types In International Manufacturing Networks
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Integrating Manufacturing Strategy With Business Strategy
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Improvement Programs In Manufacturing
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Focus, Soft Technologies, Hard Technologies
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Benefits of Experience and the Product Life Cycle
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Evaluation of Investments in Manufacturing
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Job Shop Production System
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Batch Flow Production System
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Flexible Manufacturing System
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Operator-Paced Line Flow Production System
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Just-In-Time Production System
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Equipment-Paced Line Flow Production System
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Continuous Flow Production System
