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Manufacturing renaissance

edited with an introduction by Gary P. Pisano and Robert H. Hayes

(The Harvard business review book series)

Harvard Business School Press, c1995

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Includes index

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Description

This text provides a guide to the development of strategic manufacturing capabilities from leading manufacturing companies. It features 20 articles from the "Harvard Business Review", presenting a perspective on manufacturing strategy, management and competitiveness.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 New visions of manufacturing: competing through manufacturing
  • the productivity paradox
  • the service factory
  • the emerging theory of manufacturing
  • making mass customization work. Part 2 Improving competitiveness through investments in technology and facilities: the focused factory
  • post-industrial manufacturing
  • manufacturing offshore is bad business. Part 3 Improving competitiveness through systems and procedures: why some factories are more productive than others
  • quality on the line
  • robust quality
  • made in USA - a renaissance in quality
  • getting control of just-in-time
  • making supply meet demand in an uncertain world. Part 4 Creating the new manufacturing organization: manufacturing's crisis - new technologies, obsolete organizations
  • the hidden factory
  • yesterdays accounting undermines production
  • the human costs of manufacturing reform. Part 5 Strategic manufacturing: competing through superior capabilties - strategic planning-forward in reverse?
  • beyond world-class - the new manufacturing strategy.

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