Download or read book Competitive Manufacturing Management written by John M. Nicholas and published by McGraw-Hill/Irwin. This book was released on 1998 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race without a finish line - Fundamentals of continuous improvement - JIT : value added and waste elimination - TQM : customer-focused quality - Small-lot production - Setup-time reduction - Maintaining and improving equipment - Pull production systems - Focused factories and group technology - Workcells and cellular manufacturing - Standard operations - Quality of design - Quality inspection and statistical sampling - Statistical process control - Systems for eliminating defects - Scheduling for smooth flow - Synchronizing and balancing processes - Planning and control in pull production - Managing the supply chain - Activity-based costing - Performance measurement : making bean counting relevant.