PART I: THE LESSONS OF HISTORY
Chapter 1: Manufacturing in America
Chapter 2: Inventory Control: From EOQ to RDP
Chapter 3: The MRP Crusade
Chapter 4: The JIT Revolution
Chapter 5: What Went Wrong
PART II: FACTORY PHYSICS
Chapter 6: A Science of Manufacturing
Chapter 7: Basic Factory Dynamics
Chapter 8: Variability Basics
Chapter 9: The Corrupting Influence of Variability
Chapter 10: Push and Pull Production Systems
Chapter 11: The Human Element in Operations Management
Chapter 12: Total Quality Manufacturing
PART III: PRINCIPLES IN PRACTICE
Chapter 13: A Pull Planning Framework
Chapter 14: Shop Floor Control
Chapter 15: Production Scheduling
Chapter 16: Aggregate and Workforce Planning
Chapter 17: Supply Chain Management
Chapter 18: Capacity Management
Chapter 19: Synthesis-Pulling It All Together