Research Catalog

Title

Manufacturing, the formidable competitive weapon / Wickham Skinner.

Author

Skinner, Wickham.

Publication

New York : Wiley, [1985]

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Details

Description

xviii, 330 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

A revised work on manufacturing management, which offers a systematic approach for the integration of manufacturing efforts with overall corporate strategy.

Subject

• Production management
• Production management
• Fertigung
• Factory management

Note

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction. 1. Manufacturing in corporate strategy -- 2. Production under pressure. Concepts of manufacturing strategy. 3. The anachronistic factory -- 4. The decline, fall, and renewal of manufacturing plants -- 5. Manufacturing: missing link in corporate strategy. Operationalizing manufacturing strategy concepts. 6. The focused factory -- 7. Defining the manufacturing task -- 8. Designing the production system. The impact of new manufacturing technology. 9. Technology and the manager -- 10. The factory of the future -- always in the future? -- 11. The impact of changing technology on the working environment -- 12. Operations technology: blind spot in strategic management. Manufacturing as a competitive resource. 13. Formulating a strategy of superior resources -- 14. Boasting productivity is the wrong focus -- 15. The productivity disease -- 16. Reinventing the factory: a manufacturing strategy response to industrial malaise -- 17. Getting physical: new strategic leverage from operations. Wanted: a new breed of manufacturing manager. 18. The accomplishing manager -- 19. Wanted: managers for the factory of the future -- 20. The taming of lions: how manufacturing leadership evolved, 1780-1984.

ISBN

• 0471817392
• 9780471817390

LCCN

85003290

OCLC

• ocm11812616
• 11812616
• SCSB-1150351

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library