Manufacturing industries

A practical guide to materials and manufacturing concepts and applicationsWritten in a straightforward, conversational style, this comprehensive textbook offers a hands-on introduction to materials science and manufacturing techniques.

Your definitive reference for manufacturing planning and control professionals-updated for the 2-part version of the CPIM exam Written by a team of recognized experts, Manufacturing Planning and Control for Supply Chain Management: The CPIM Reference, Second Edition, features hundreds of practice questions for the CPIM exams.

Advance in your product management career and create innovative products that customers love!

The dynamic, collaborative management model that saved a U.

Transform your company's critical operations-and its destiny-through a powerful kaizen-focused strategy designed for 21st century efficiencyA pioneer of the operational excellence movement that continues to transform businesses across the world, Masaaki Imai takes you to the next step of continuous improvement developing an overall strategy for measuring your company s operational performance and improving processes in ways that boost efficiency and gain competitiveness.

This 1997 book explains basic theory of spacecraft dynamics and control and the practical aspects of controlling a satellite.

This 1997 book explains basic theory of spacecraft dynamics and control and the practical aspects of controlling a satellite.

An accessible overview of the most popular and cutting-edge methods for studying the properties of molecules and their interactions.

An accessible overview of the most popular and cutting-edge methods for studying the properties of molecules and their interactions.

Legumes can act as good sources of nutrients, especially for those who are suffering from protein related nutritional deficiency.

This book provides an overview of developments in personalized medicine patenting and explores its normative implications to suggest policies to best regulate it.

Second edition of a wide-ranging analysis of business trends in the manufacturing segment of the healthcare industry.

Second edition of a wide-ranging analysis of business trends in the manufacturing segment of the healthcare industry.

This book explores the marketing chain of British textile exports to South America and sheds light on South Americans'' consumer behaviour.

This book explores the marketing chain of British textile exports to South America and sheds light on South Americans'' consumer behaviour.

A thorough overview of the strategies available for value creation through service business development.

A thorough overview of the strategies available for value creation through service business development.

This 1992 study of Glaxo, from its beginnings to 1962, examines the global operations of this pharmaceutical company.

This 1959 book surveys the changes in the social origins and career patterns of the leaders of two British industries during the previous century.

Documents the first sixty years of Ford Motor Company''s international expansion, tracing its global business expansion across six continents.

Global Automobile Demand is a two-volume work analysing the impact of the Great Recession and the structural factors which shape automobile demand in developed and emerging countries.

Global Automobile Demand is a two-volume work analysing the impact of the Great Recession and the structural factors which shape automobile demand in developed and emerging countries.

This book examines the dramatic increase in automotive assembly plants in the former Socialist Central European (CE) nations of Czechia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia from 1989 onwards.

Health-Promoting Food Ingredients during Processing presents a comprehensive science-based approach covering the latest naturally occurring bioactive compounds in seeds, dietary fiber, proteins, fermented bio-compounds, agro-industrial waste by-products, and lactic acid bacteria.

Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach and using the case of the automotive industry as a starting point this volume discusses how industrial companies can remain competitive in spite of the current economic downturn.

Smart Polymeric Nano-Constructs in Drug Delivery: Concept, Design and Therapeutic Applications provides a thorough discussion of the most state of the art material and polymer exploitations for the delivery of bioactive(s) as well as their current and clinical status.

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

In large cities in developed countries, the share of manufacotruing has declined drastically in the last decades and the share of service has grown as many manufacturing firms have closed or moved to lower-cost locations.

In large cities in developed countries, the share of manufacotruing has declined drastically in the last decades and the share of service has grown as many manufacturing firms have closed or moved to lower-cost locations.

This book explains how to organize and manage modifications during the solution realization phase of problem solving so improvements become the new way of life.

This book explains how to organize and manage modifications during the solution realization phase of problem solving so improvements become the new way of life.

This book explores why Japan, despite being a world leader in many high technology industries such as automobiles and consumer electronics, is only a minor player in the global pharmaceutical industry.

This book explores why Japan, despite being a world leader in many high technology industries such as automobiles and consumer electronics, is only a minor player in the global pharmaceutical industry.

This book seeks to enlighten two grey areas of industrial historiography.

This book seeks to enlighten two grey areas of industrial historiography.

After a quarter century of almost general condemnation and rebuttal of the entire nationalization experience, it appears that there are second thoughts about governmental direct intervention in the economy.

After a quarter century of almost general condemnation and rebuttal of the entire nationalization experience, it appears that there are second thoughts about governmental direct intervention in the economy.

The Routledge Handbook of Industry and Development is a global overview of industrialisation.

The Routledge Handbook of Industry and Development is a global overview of industrialisation.

Like much of SMEs research, innovation studies of small enterprises have commenced later and are less numerous.

Like much of SMEs research, innovation studies of small enterprises have commenced later and are less numerous.

For the last three decades, the Neoliberal regime, emphasising economic growth through deregulation, market integration, expansion of the private sector, and contraction of the welfare state has shaped production and consumption processes in agriculture and food.

For the last three decades, the Neoliberal regime, emphasising economic growth through deregulation, market integration, expansion of the private sector, and contraction of the welfare state has shaped production and consumption processes in agriculture and food.

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.

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.

The enterprise-focused framework of supply chain, which an overwhelming majority of books on supply chain management (SCM) have adopted, falls short in explaining recent developments in the real world, especially the so-called Wal-Mart model, in which a 'factory' is a virtual logistics network of multiple international manufacturing firms.

The enterprise-focused framework of supply chain, which an overwhelming majority of books on supply chain management (SCM) have adopted, falls short in explaining recent developments in the real world, especially the so-called Wal-Mart model, in which a 'factory' is a virtual logistics network of multiple international manufacturing firms.

First published in 1980, this book considers the British motor industry over the period between 1945 and 1979, analysing the ways in which the industry suffered a considerable decline in the post-war era, when compared to motor industries of other countries or to most other British industries.

First published in 1980, this book considers the British motor industry over the period between 1945 and 1979, analysing the ways in which the industry suffered a considerable decline in the post-war era, when compared to motor industries of other countries or to most other British industries.

The domestic yak (Bos grunniens), a species of long-haired domestic cattle, is found in India, Nepal, China, Pakistan, Mongolia, Russia, and Serbia.