Manufacturing excellence: renewal and rebirth

For years, automotive supplier GAFFER has been able to survive using its old management and production practices. But times have been changing and GAFFER's future looks bleak. Jake is a retired production planner, reflecting on his long history with the GAFFER factory and what is currently happ...

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Hauptverfasser: McKay, Kenneth N. 1953- (VerfasserIn), Wiers, Vincent C. S. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, [New York] (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) Momentum Press 2015
Schriftenreihe:Engineering management collection
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Zusammenfassung:For years, automotive supplier GAFFER has been able to survive using its old management and production practices. But times have been changing and GAFFER's future looks bleak. Jake is a retired production planner, reflecting on his long history with the GAFFER factory and what is currently happening. He wonders how things might change as their main customer wants a completely new part to be not only produced, but also designed at GAFFER. Just when the old management is about to mess up the relationship with the customer, there is a new factory manager. He starts turning the factory around and Jake shares all of the juicy stories with his coffee mate, Ben
Beschreibung:Includes index
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Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiv, 134 pages) illustrations
ISBN:9781606508527