Manufacturing industries

A theoretical, practical approach to the field of lean production from multiple perspectives: five disciplines, ten industries, and seven countries.

This controversial analysis of economic nationalism will interest economists and those concerned with nationalism and the competitive position of Canadian manufacturing.

Licensing, Selling and Finance in the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Industries is an assessment of the turbulent state of pharmaceutical and biotechnology markets as we enter the second decade of the 21st Century.

The coveted "e;Made in Italy"e; label calls to mind visions of nimble-fingered Italian tailors lovingly sewing elegant, high-end clothing.

This book analyses the determining factors behind productivity and innovation amongst Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore, and within the context of South East Asia, in order to offer recommendations for increasing productivity and aiding economic growth.

The keys to global business success, as taught by a T-shirt's journey The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy is a critically-acclaimed narrative that illuminates the globalization debates and reveals the key factors to success in global business.

Why do we still have nits?

The story of wool covers 4,000 years of human history – the first written record of dying wool for cloth was found on a Mesopotamian papyrus c.

Garment Manufacturing Technology provides an insiders' look at this multifaceted process, systematically going from design and production to finishing and quality control.

A comprehensive guide to optimizing the lifecycle management of pharmaceutical brands The mounting challenges posed by cost containment policies and the prevalence of generic alternatives make optimizing the lifecycle management (LCM) of brand drugs essential for pharmaceutical companies looking to maximize the value of their products.

Food Supply Chain Management: Economic, Social and Environmental Perspectives is very different from parts supply chain management as can be seen from the increasing health, safety and environmental concerns that are increasingly garnering the public's attention about different food supply chain problems.

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Analysing developments in digital technologies and institutional changes, this book provides an overview of the current frenetic state of transformation within the global automobile industry.

Who is making money on the Web and who is losing it?

Combination Therapy against Multidrug Resistance explores the potential of combination therapy as an efficient strategy to combat multi-drug resistance.

Written specifically for the oil and gas industry, Reliable Maintenance Planning, Estimating, and Scheduling provides maintenance managers and engineers with the tools and techniques to create a manageable maintenance program that will save money and prevent costly facility shutdowns.

Dressings for Advanced Wound Care focuses on helping the reader better understand advanced wound care and relevant technologies.

Reliability technology plays an important role in the present era of industrial growth, optimal efficiency, and reducing hazards.

This book provides insights into Japanese production and operations management through the roles and human resource management of Japanese manufacturing engineers and how their roles contribute to efficient manufacturing.

A call to arms for everyone who believes in America's futureIf you trust what you hear in the news, America is in trouble.

This Introduction to Manufacturing focuses students on the issues that matter to practicing industrial engineers and managers.

Materials, Design and Manufacturing for Lightweight Vehicles, Second Edition, features the requirements for processing each material type, explains the manufacture of different categories of components, and analyzes different component joining techniques.

In some parts of the world spending on pharmaceuticals is astronomical.

Gradient Index Optics deals with the application of gradients in optical systems of classical types: gradient index lenses.

Road transport is on a constant course to maintain and improve driving safety in what is a complex process involving multiple forms of risk.

Structured Foods is an important reference that discusses the recent research trends on structural development in various foods.

This book tells 101 stories of company efforts to implement the many aspects of flow manufacturing -- including such topics as just-in-time production, total quality control, reorganization of factories into product-focused or customer-focused cells, plants-in-a-plant, material flows by the simplicity of visual kanban, supplier partnerships, quick setup of equipment, cross-training and job rotation of the work force, and many more.

Offering proof-of-concept (POC) to inventors is often a difficult task for most Technology Transfer Offices (TTOs).

Food Supply Chain Management: Economic, Social and Environmental Perspectives is very different from parts supply chain management as can be seen from the increasing health, safety and environmental concerns that are increasingly garnering the public's attention about different food supply chain problems.

Multistate System Reliability with Dependencies explains how to select a model of load sharing that best describes the impact of changes in reliability states of components.

Business Development in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries accounts for over $5 billion in licensing deal value per year and much more than that in the value of mergers and acquisitions.

In the textile industry, there is a pressing need for people who can facilitate the translation of creative solutions from designers into manufacturing language and data.

The fourth edition of this highly regarded book has been considerably enlarged to cover all aspects of cocoa production.

The world's bestselling Lean expert shows service-based organizations how to go Lean, gain value, and get results-The Toyota Way.

Livestock production worldwide is increasing rapidly, in part due to economic growth and demand for meat in industrializing countries.

What is the true source of a firm's long-term competitive advantage in manufacturing?

This book explores the mechanics of rotor spinning machines.

Drug Design and Discovery in Alzheimer's Disease includes expert reviews of recent developments in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and neurodegenerative disease research.

Food Chains: Quality, Safety and Efficiency in a Challenging World addresses the many issues facing European food producers and other food chain stakeholders, who endeavour to improve their competitive position in a highly competitive world food market.

This book, originally published in 1993, develops for the US automobile industry a demand-supply model which incorporates both wholesale and retail sectors and which allows strategic pricing behaviour of US and Japanese producers to be internally determined and its effects on market behaviour and national welfare analyzed.

First published in 1998, this volume features specialists in agricultural economics who have provided case studies on small farms in northern and central Portugal and southern and central Italy.

Alginate is a hydrophilic, biocompatible, biodegradable, and relatively economical polymer generally found in marine brown algae.

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Guide to Fashion Entrepreneurship delves into a comprehensive, step-by-step entrepreneurial action plan that investigates how fashion product concepts are created, branded, sourced, marketed, channeled, and merchandised.

Affordable is not typically the first adjective used to describe an electric automobile.

One of the greatest challenges for the apparel industry is to produce garments that fit customers properly.