Preface Preface to the First Edition
Part I: The ‘Why’ of Production and Operations Management
1. Operations Management: An Introduction
2. Operations Strategy and Competitiveness
Part II: The ‘What’ of Production and Operations Management
3. Product and Service Design
4. Reliability, Maintainability, Availability and Value Analysis
Supplement 1: Dynamic Programming
Supplement 2: Replacement Models
5. Product Quality
Part III: The ‘How’ of Production and Operations Management
6. Process Design and Selection
7. Work Study
8. Process Quality: Statistical Quality Control
Part IV: The ‘Where’ of Production and Operations Management
9. Facility Location
10.Facility Layout
11. Capacity and Equipment Selection
Supplement 3: Simulation
Part V: The ‘When’ of Production and Operations Management
12. Forecasting
13. Aggregate Production Planning
14. Material Management and Inventory Control
15. Material Requirements Planning
16. Operations Scheduling
17. Supply Chain Management
18. Enterprise Resource Management
19. Just-in-Time Production System
20. Queuing Theory
21. Project Planning and Control I: Network Models
22. Project Planning and Control II: Line of Balance
Part VI: The ‘Who’ of Production and Operations Management
23. Human Resources in Operations Management
Appendixes
A: The Standard Normal Probability Distribution
B: Values of e for Computing Poisson Probabilities
C: Table of Random Numbers
Answers to Selected Questions