Essentials of Manufacturing Engineering Management: FIRST EDITION

Pang, Peter

ISBN 10: 059530639X / ISBN 13: 9780595306398

Editore: iUniverse, 2004

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Manufacturing engineering department plays a very significant role in the manufacturing and operations functions. It conducts pre-production of newly designed products through potentially viable processes, and equipment functional system to derive the finished products that would meet product quality, production costs, and customer requirements. This book shows generously examples of facility, and production layouts, processes, methods, and materials flow to increase labor efficiency, and effectiveness of plant performance. It elaborates intensively the measurement methods of worker performance, machine utilization, and unproductive time. It emphasizes manufacturing problematic areas, avoidance of inefficiencies, and areas for improvement. This book also outlines quality control methods, business objective, strategy, and tactic methodology and implementation process, and decision theory and analysis. There are numerous illustrated examples, questions, problems, and solutions in each chapter to reinforce reader's comprehension of materials.

L'autore: Peter N. T. Pang received the B.Sc. Electrical Engineering from the University of Aston, England and the M.B.A. from the San Jose State University, U.S.A. Peter?s areas of expertise are production management, quality control management, materials and inventory control, manufacturing engineering, product design engineering, human resources, plant financial and managerial accounting, and plant operations. He has worked as a Senior Consultant at Arthur D. Little Consulting Company, and as a Quality Control Manager in a General Electric facility in Singapore; later as a Plant Manager or General Manager at the National Semiconductor facility in Malaysia; TMX Pte. Ltd. in Singapore, a facility of Timex Corporation; Electronica BRK S.A. de C.V. in Mexico, and Xian System Sensor Electronics Ltd. in China, both facilities of Pittway Corporation. He has been very successful in turning around troubled manufacturing companies in Cupertino, California; West Chicago, Illinois; and Brighton, England. He has successfully pioneered and managed a few companies in different countries and rendered some manufacturing services to companies in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Philippines. Peter?s career spans more than thirty-five years of operations, plant and general management in national and international companies.By the Same Author:Essentials of Quality Control Management ISBN: 1-4120-1362-3Essentials of Materials Management ISBN: 1-4120-1711-4Essentials of Manufacturing Engineering Management ISBN: 0-595-30639-XEssentials of Production Management ISBN: TBA

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Titolo: Essentials of Manufacturing Engineering ...
Casa editrice: iUniverse
Data di pubblicazione: 2004
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: New