Operations strategy : text and cases

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Operations strategy : text and cases

David A. Garvin

Prentice Hall, c1992

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

Highly practical in focus, this volume proceeds from broad discussions of operations strategy, to assessments of specific strategies (competing on quality, productivity, and new products and processes), to discussions of how those strategies can best be implemented over time.

Table of Contents

I. MANUFACTURING AS A COMPETITIVE WEAPON. 1. Indalex Ltd. 2. Manufacturing-Missing Link in Corporate Strategy. 3. Chandler Home Products. 4. Sensormatic Electronics Corporation. 5. Intercon International. 6. The Roles and Responsibilities of the Corporate Manufacturing Staff. 7. Teradyne: The Foundry. 8. How Should You Organize Manufacturing? 9. FMC, Crane and Excavator Division. II. STRATEGIES AND APPROACHES. 10. American Food and Grains: Commodity and Ingredient Procurement. 11. Quest for the Best. 12. Steinway and Sons. 13. Sanyo Manufacturing Corporation-Forrest City, Arkansas. 14. A Note on Quality: The Views of Deming, Juran, and Crosby. 15. Quality on the Line. 16. A Day at Midwest Equipment Corporation. 17. Applichem. 18. Why Some Factories Are More Productive than Others. 19. North American Rockwell Draper Division. 20. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation. 21. The Case for Managing by the Numbers. 22. Note on the Aerospace Industry and Industrial Modernization. 23. Vought Aero Products: Factory of the Future. 24. Corning Glass Works: The Z-Glass Project. 25. Allstate Chemical Company: The Commercialization of Dynarim. 26. The Rogers Corporation: Electroluminescent Lamps. 27. Project Nantucket. 28. The Boeing 767: From Concept to Production. 29. Lehrer McGovern Bovis, Inc. 30. A Note on Value Analysis: Its History and Methodology. III. PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING OPERATIONS STRATEGIES OVER TIME. 31. Building on the Past. 32. Digital Equipment Corporation: The Endpoint Model. 33. A Note on Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRPII). 34. Signetics Corporation: Implementing a Quality Improvement Program (A). 35. Signetics Corporation: Implementing a Quality Improvement Program (D). 36. Copeland Corporation: Evolution of a Manufacturing Strategy, 1975-1982. 37. Competing Through Manufacturing. Index.

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  • NCID
    BA19043909
  • ISBN
    • 0136389171
  • LCCN
    91024116
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Englewood Cliffs, N.J.
  • Pages/Volumes
    xix, 507 p.
  • Size
    26 cm
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