High-Mix Low-Volume Manufacturing (Hewlett-Packard Professional Books) - Hardcover

Mahoney, R. Michael

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ISBN 10: 013255688X ISBN 13: 9780132556880

Verlag: Prentice Hall, 1997

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Book by R Michael Mahoney

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High-Mix Low Volume Manufacturing by Micheal Mahoney ISBN# 013255688X Karl M. Kapp, Ed.D., CFPIM, CIRM, an assistant professor at Bloomsburg University, is an avid reader, writer, and speaker on the convergence of learning, manufacturing, and technology. He can be reached at kkapp@bloomu.edu for comment or if you have a book you'd like to have reviewed. High-Mix, Low-Volume Manufacturing "When building a competitive advantage, the principal underlying concern is to avoid doing the same thing on the same battlefield as your competition." R. Michael Mahoney In his first book, "High-Mix, Low-Volume Manufacturing," R. Michael Mahoney carefully details a variety of manufacturing issues and topics that directly impact competitors in the high-mix, low-volume manufacturing arena. This comprehensive book summarizes critical competitive strategies, manufacturing fundamentals, multiple constraint synchronization techniques, and performance measurement strategies. Although it focuses on high-mix, low-volume manufacturing, the book describes techniques and tools that can be used by all types of manufacturing companies. The author, R. Michael Mahoney, is an engineer with over 19 years of experience working in a high-mix, low-volume environment at Hewlett-Packard. His years of experience and training as an engineer are evident throughout the work. The book is written in a straightforward style. Material is presented matter-of-factly with explanations provided in the form of charts, graphs, tables, Venn diagrams, and mathematical equations. The beginning of the book has a reference list so the reader can gain quick access to over one hundred diagrams. "High-Mix, Low-Volume Manufacturing" is not a casual read. It is meant to be carefully analyzed and studied in order to gain the insights described within the text. Mahoney carefully details concepts and ideas in order to help the reader understand the techniques and tools needed in order to successfully operate a high-mix, low-volume manufacturing operation. The best approach to the work is to read it in stages or sections. This allows the reader to fully grasp and understand the topics being discussed prior to reading to another section. The work is well positioned as a reference book. You can find information related to almost any business or manufacturing topic contained within the 200 or so pages. Mahoney sprinkles the book with a variety of references to different subject areas including Heuristics, Fredrick Taylor, the economic theory concept of pareto optimum, and Management By Objective (MBO). These references help engage the reader in the topics and add dimension to the manufacturing theories discussed. The inclusion of a variety of business topics puts the manufacturing explanations into the greater business context. Mahoney has even developed a Web page for anyone who wants to keep current with the latest developments in the high-mix, low-volume manufacturing environment. The address is http://www.hmlv.com. The site provides information on the topic of high-mix, low-volume manufacturing and offers an opportunity to purchase the book. The content of the book covers a wide-range of manufacturing topics. Mahoney discusses Strategic Degrees of Freedom, Kan Ban cards, the evolution of high-mix, low-volume manufacturing, the Theory of Constraints, Manufacturing Resource Planning, Lot Sizing, Balancing Capacity, Multiple Constraint Synchronization, Performance Measurement, and achieving World Class status. Let's look at the Performance Measurement chapter. In this chapter, Mahoney takes the topic of performance measurement and divides it into several subtopics. The subtopics include change paradigms, education, relevance, metrics, inventory turnover, productivity, operations performance, and world class. All topics covered in the book are of extreme interest to APICS readers. The subtopic of performance measurement discusses various methods of organizational transformations. Mahoney lists four strategies for organizational change. The first strategy is Continuos Improvement. The second strategy, Restructuring, is discussed in detail. Mahoney describes how traditional restructuring is a reactive strategy that can result in decreased employee morale and a gap between management and employees. He states that "..cost cutting reduces the net worth of a company in order to achieve a higher return on investment." The second approach to restructuring described is a strategy-driven approach. Mahoney states that this approach focuses on process redesign where value-adding activities are maximized at the expense of non-value-adding activities. In this approach, employees are strategically redeployed to positions in which they can add value. During this process, Mahoney asserts that, "...competitive advantage cannot be achieved without incurring costs." Next the concept of reengineering is detailed. This section describes how reengineering is a socio-technological approach to organizational restructuring based on a rapid and radical redesign of strategic value-adding business processes. Reengineering seeks to "...attain a long-term competitiveness based on a particular customer value proposition (e.g., cost, quality, delivery, responsiveness, service, technology)." Mahoney labels reengineering as defensive corporate strategy because it is simply a method of extending known competencies and not a method of creating innovative leaps in competitiveness. The final strategy Mahoney discusses is reinventing. He positions reinventing as being about innovation and working in uncertainty. In fact, Mahoney states that "predictability during the process of reinvention is virtually non-existent." And that "winning organizations invest in innovation and are seeking to achieve advantage as opposed to simply being competitive...They fail forward." This book is especially relevant to APICS members since they must constantly consider how to help their organizations achieve greater results by failing forward. It is an interesting and intriguing concept. As a player in the manufacturing arena, having "High-Mix, Low-Volume Manufacturing" on your bookshelf provides you with a high quality reference source. It will answer questions you have about high-mix, low-volume manufacturing as well as almost any other issue manufacturers contend with on a daily basis.

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For Mechanical Engineering courses and practitioniers interested in how manufacturing should and can be run. Covering the entire spectrum of manufacturing-related topics - from competitive strategies through performance measurements, the goal of High-Mix, Low-Volume Manufacturing is to develop the manufacturing core competencies required to obtain a competitve advantage. This book has both an immediate and long-term payoff.

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• Verlag: Prentice Hall
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 013255688X
• ISBN 13: 9780132556880
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 222