Production and Operations Management Books
ISBN: 9789350045091
476 pages
eBook also available for institutional users
Description
The book entitled Production and Operations Management is designed to help managers in making effective production and operations decisions. The concise and accessible style of the book is suitable for students pursuing management and other applied courses. The book effectively blends together the theoretical and practical concepts to make readers comprehend and apply these concepts in their studies and professional life.
Chapter 1: Overview of Production and Operations Management
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Concept of Production and Operations Management
1.3 Role and Responsibilities of a Productions and Operations Manager
1.4 Recent Trends in Production and Operations Management
Chapter 2: Operations Strategy
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Concept of Strategy
2.3 Concept of Strategic Management
2.4 Concept of Operations Strategy
2.5 Modification of an Operations Strategy
Chapter 3: Forecasting
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Concept of Forecasting
3.3 Techniques of Forecasting
3.4 Limitations of Forecasting
3.5 Criteria for Efficient Forecasting
Chapter 4: Product Analysis
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Concept of Product and its Characteristics
4.3 Product Selection
4.4 Product Design
4.5 Concept of Product Development
Chapter 5: Capacity Management
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Concept of Capacity
5.3 Concept of Capacity Management
5.4 Estimation of Equipment Requirements
5.5 Concept of Capacity Planning
5.6 Methods for Measuring Capacity
Chapter 6: Quality Management: Strategic Issues
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Quality Management
6.3 Total Quality Management
6.4 Cost of Quality
6.5 International Organization for Standardization
Chapter 7: Facility Location and Layout
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Concept of Facility Location
7.3 Current Trends in Industry Location
7.4 Concept of Plant Layout
Chapter 8: Productivity
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Concept of Productivity
8.3 Concept of Job Analysis
8.4 Concept of Job Description
8.5 Concept of Job Specification
8.6 Concept of Job Design
8.7 Concept of Job Evaluation
8.8 Work Study
8.9 Method Study
8.10 Motion Study
8.11 Work Measurement
8.12 Solved Illustrations
Chapter 9: Aggregate Planning
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Concept of Aggregate Planning
9.3 Concept of Linear Programming
9.4 Transportation Model
Chapter 10: Material Requirement Planning
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Introduction to Material Requirement Planning
10.3 Inputs of MRP
10.4 Lot Sizing
10.5 MRP Updating
10.6 Capacity Requirements Planning
10.7 Enterprise Resource Planning
Chapter 11: Materials Management
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Materials Management
11.3 Materials Planning and Control
11.4 Purchase Management
11.5 Stores Management
11.6 Materials Handling
11.7 Supply Chain Management
Chapter 12: Inventory Management
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Concept of Inventory Management
12.3 Reorder Point
12.4 Safety
12.5 Techniques of Inventory Management
12.6 Solved Illustrations
Chapter 13: Production Planning and Control
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Concept of Production Planning
13.3 Production Planning- A Part of Corporate Planning
13.4 Meaning of Production Control
13.5 Integration between Production Planning and Production Control
13.6 Concept of Production Planning and Control
13.7 Concept of Line of Balance
Chapter 14: Production Scheduling
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Overview of Production Scheduling
14.3 Concept of Loading
14.4 Sequencing
14.5 Project Scheduling
Chapter 15: Quality Control
15.1 Introduction
15.2 Concept of Quality Control
15.3 Statistical Quality Control
15.4 Tools of Descriptive Statistics
15.5 Tools of Statistical Process Control
15.6 Tools for Acceptance Sampling
15.7 Six Sigma
15.8 Process Capability
15.9 Quality Circles
Chapter 16: Maintenance Management
16.1 Introduction
16.2 Concept of Maintenance Management
16.3 Replacement of Equipment
16.4 Concept of Reliability
16.5 Maintenance Management System
16.6 Total Productive Maintenance
Chapter 17: Just-in-Time System
17.1 Introduction
17.2 Concept of Just-in-Time
17.3 Elements of JIT
17.4 Ideal Production System and JIT Production
17.5 Benefits of JIT
17.6 Tools and Techniques of JIT
17.7 Implementation of JIT
17.8 JIT in Service Sector
17.9 Synchronous Production and JIT
17.10 DBR Mechanism
Chapter 18: Change Management
18.1 Introduction
18.2 Concept of Change
18.3 Factors Responsible for Change in Production Environment
18.4 Interventions for Change Management in Production Environment
18.5 Challenges in Change Management
18.6 Operational Change Management
18.7 Business Process Re-engineering in Change Management