Reinventing the Factory: Productivity Breakthroughs in Manufacturing Today - Tapa dura

LI. Toriello Vice President, Manufacturing, Mercury Marine -- A Brunswick Corporation "Reinventing the Factory is a "field manual" for modern manufacturing techniques. It provides a detailed description of how to get from where we are now to where we would like to be. The book reads like a personal consultation. The authors anticipate, and then answer with appropriate real-life examples, the questions that come to mind as each concept or method is introduced. The material is well organized and readable and should be the desk top reference book for manufacturing people from the executive office to the shop floor.

This book suggests that we have now the technology and professional knowledge to implement so-called revolutionary concepts that many managers still regard as futuristic. It presents a comprehensive account of the theory and documents more than 50 real-life applications of productivity improvement - from the focused factory to the plant-wide plan.