Industrial engineering and management : a new perspective

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Industrial engineering and management : a new perspective

Philip E. Hicks

(McGraw-Hill series in industrial engineering and management science)(McGraw-Hill international editions, . Industrial Engineering series)

McGraw-Hill, 1994

2nd ed

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Note

Rev. ed. of: Introduction to industrial engineering and management science. c1977

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Designed for undergraduates taking their first course in industrial engineering and professional engineers and managers who want to learn about the field, this work reviews many of the core industrial engineering subjects, which the student will study later in more detail. These include TQM, concurrent engineering, Taguchi methods, JIT and expert systems. Operations research and systems techniques, the Kanban system and other Japanese techniques, the history of industrial engineering, productivity and decision sciences are also covered. Real industrial examples are used to illustrate major concepts.

Table of Contents

  • A brief history of industrial engineering
  • production systems design
  • production systems control
  • management
  • total quality management
  • productivity
  • operations research
  • systems
  • the future.

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  • NCID
    BA4581038X
  • ISBN
    • 0071133577
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York ; Tokyo
  • Pages/Volumes
    xviii, 455 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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