Leading Manufacturing Excellence: A Guide to State-of-the-Art Manufacturing [Hardcover]

Patricia E. Moody (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 2743406976 | ISBN-13: 978-2743406974 | Publication Date: April 1997 | Edition: 1

In Strategic Manufacturing, management consultant Patricia E. Moody took an in-depth look at practices that enabled companies to improve their manufacturing operations, increase their bottom line, and effectively compete in the global arena. Now, Moody follows up her acclaimed earlier work with Leading Manufacturing Excellence, an updated, expanded edition targeting the latest developments in leading manufacturing techniques.

Laying a firm foundation, Moody begins with a brief historical overview tracing the evolution of manufacturing in the United States. From there, she examines current manufacturing strategies--visual systems, teams, compensation, and Kaizen methods--that will help you position your company as a leader in today's competitive global marketplace. Leading Manufacturing Excellence provides a comprehensive framework for understanding and applying these techniques to your own organization.

Featuring expert advice and invaluable recommendations from prominent industry and academic leaders, from Romeyn Everdell, "the father of master scheduling," and Roger Schmenner to Mike Harding and William Holbrook, as well as new material from experts at Honda, Motorola, Nortel, and the Association for Manufacturing Excellence's Kaizen Blitz initiativessm, Leading Manufacturing Excellence offers essential details on:
* New strategies, tactics, and technologies, including teams, compensation, Kaizen, pull systems, and the search conference method
* How to translate broad and complex strategy into day-to-day thinking
* How to integrate business and manufacturing strategy
* How to reduce lead time, cycle time, and inventory, while improving manufacturing flexibility and customer service


Currently required reading for APICS certification candidates, Leading Manufacturing Excellence will be an invaluable resource for all organizations striving to stay one step ahead of the competition.

A concise and comprehensive overview of today's key manufacturing trends

In Leading Manufacturing Excellence, management consultant Patricia E. Moody takes an in-depth look at the latest developments in manufacturing strategies. An updated and expanded edition of her highly acclaimed book, Strategic Manufacturing, this indispensable reference details new trends--including visual systems, smart purchasing, and Kaizen methods--and provides a comprehensive framework for effectively applying these models to your own organization.

Acclaim for Strategic Manufacturing

"Strategic Manufacturing will be an important part of the libraries of all manufacturing managers and executives from the most recently appointed to those of us who have enjoyed a long career in manufacturing and are seeking ways to extend that career for a few more years." --Harold E. Edmondson, Vice President, Manufacturing Hewlett-Packard Company

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From the Publisher

This book will aid the reader in competing successfully within the industrial world. It presents a manufacturing plan that starts with a theory and analysis of company and industry and goes on to the necessary competitive strategy and the tools needed to carry this out. It also compares the strengths and needs of an industry, that will help build a stronger workforce.

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Leading Manufacturing Excellence In Strategic Manufacturing, management consultant Patricia E. Moody took an in-depth look at practices that enabled companies to improve their manufacturing operations, increase their bottom line, and effectively compete in the global arena. Now, Moody follows up her acclaimed earlier work with Leading Manufacturing Excellence, an updated, expanded edition targeting the latest developments in leading manufacturing techniques. Laying a firm foundation, Moody begins with a brief historical overview tracing the evolution of manufacturing in the United States. From there, she examines current manufacturing strategies—visual systems, teams, compensation, and Kaizen methods—that will help you position your company as a leader in today’s competitive global marketplace. Leading Manufacturing Excellence provides a comprehensive framework for understanding and applying these techniques to your own organization. Featuring expert advice and invaluable recommendations from prominent industry and academic leaders, from Romeyn Everdell, "the father of master scheduling," and Roger Schmenner to Mike Harding and William Holbrook, as well as new material from experts at Honda, Motorola, Nortel, and the Association for Manufacturing Excellence’s Kaizen Blitz initiatives^SM, Leading Manufacturing Excellence offers essential details on:

• New strategies, tactics, and technologies, including teams, compensation, Kaizen, pull systems, and the search conference method
• How to translate broad and complex strategy into day-to-day thinking
• How to integrate business and manufacturing strategy
• How to reduce lead time, cycle time, and inventory, while improving manufacturing flexibility and customer service

Currently required reading for APICS certification candidates, Leading Manufacturing Excellence will be an invaluable resource for all organizations striving to stay one step ahead of the competition.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 398 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (April 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 2743406976
• ISBN-13: 978-2743406974
• ASIN: 0471163414
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,490,211 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Actually, Just About Any Process of Production, October 26, 2001

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This review is from: Leading Manufacturing Excellence: A Guide to State-of-the-Art Manufacturing (Hardcover)

Although the subtitle correctly suggests that this book offers "a guide to state-of-the art of manufacturing", I was surprised and pleased to discover that almost all of the material is also directly relevant to processes that do not involve manufacturing but do involve production. Of new and better ideas, for example. Also, how to refine and then integrate the best of those ideas within and throughout an organization. Although it may not have been the primary purpose of the authors, this book has wide and deep application to almost any process in need of improved cycle time, first pass yield, and on-time delivery.

Moody has carefully selected and brilliantly organized a series of essays by a diversity of experts. Her objective is quite specific: to provide many approaches to the basic question of how to compete more successfully. Each section is preceded by an overview. The book is carefully organized so that each chapter stands alone. It remains for each reader to draw correlations -- between and among individual essays -- which are most relevant to the reader's specific needs and interests. When read in its entirety, the book's presentation of manufacturing strategy proceeds from theory and analysis of company and industry through formulation of appropriate competitive strategy to the tactics required to execute that strategy." The essays are organized within five parts: Historical Perspective, The Strategic Manufacturing Planning Process, New Strategies, Management Focus, and Dynamics of Change.

Who will derive the greatest benefit from this book? Certainly, any decision-maker who is involved at any level of the manufacturing process but also, not to belabor the point, decision-makers in non-manufacturing organizations with the same objective: to compete more successfully by establishing and then sustaining constant and rigorous process] improvement. I wholly agree with Ciampa's caveats: "Don't believe that yesterday's answers will work on today's questions....Don't believe that people who have done things one way for years will change their behavior easily if at all....Don't believe you can do it all yourself....Don't believe that you can anticipate everything or that you don't need any game plan at all....Don't believe the old adage,'If it ain't broke, don't fix it!' which flies in the face of every principle of preventive maintenance." He concludes, "The wise leader is always looking for opportunities to make things better before they break. The cost of repairing a broken organization is enormous compared to the fine-tuning and constructive change required to keep it sharp." Moody and her associates are to be commended for providing, in a single volume, an abundance of valuable information in combination with wisdom of unique practicality.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars important part of the libraries of all manufacturing mgrs, January 23, 1999

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This review is from: Leading Manufacturing Excellence: A Guide to State-of-the-Art Manufacturing (Hardcover)

Leading Manufacturing Excellence will be an important part of the libraries of all manufacturing managers and executives from the most recently appointed to those of us who have enjoyed a long career in manufacturing and are seeking ways to extend that career for a few more years. Harold E. Edmondson, Former Vice President of Manufacturing, Hewlett-Packard Company