Description: List of Illustrations. Foreword. Preface. 1. High-Mix Manufacturing Competitive Strategy. Building a Competitive Advantage. Strategic Degrees of Freedom. Evolution to High-Mix Manufacturing. Strategic Cost Drivers. Agile Manufacturing. Historical Heuristics. The Competitiveness Sigmoid Curve. 2. Critical Manufacturing Fundamentals. Just-In-Time Manufacturing (JIT). Kanban. Theory of Constraints. Available Capacity. Production System Types. Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II). Scheduling. Test. 3. Cross-Functional Relationships. Customer Order Dimensions. Lost Sizing Simulation. Inventory. Responsiveness. Balancing Capacity. Flexibility. Complexity. Process Quality Improvement. Product Costing. Work Measurement. Management Skills. 4. Multiple Constraint Synchronization (MCS). Strategic Capacity Planning. Modeling Operations. MCS Planning. MCS Lot Sequencing. Transfer Lot Sizing. Buffer Inventory. 5. Performance Measurement. Change Paradigms. Education. Relevance. Metrics. Inventory Turnover. Productivity. Operations Performance. World Class. Bibliography. Index.

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