1st Edition

Planning and Control of Manufacturing Operations

By John Kenworthy Copyright 1998
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

Effective planning and control of manufacturing operations allows businesses to achieve maximum profitability by reducing uncertainty at all stages of the manufacturing process. In this book, John Kenworthy offers an easy to follow overview of the principles and practice of manufacturing control, with the emphasis throughout on practical approaches and techniques rather than on theoretical... Read more
The manufacturing control problem; Achieving control of the business; Master production scheduling; Manufacturing orders; Order policies; Lead times and safety stocks; Bills of material; Sales forecasting and distribution requirements planning; Capacity planning and short term scheduling; Optimised production technology; Just in time and continuous improvement; Implementing manufacturing control systems; Answers to exercises; Index.

Biography

Kenworthy, John