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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Main Authors: McKay, Kenneth N. 1953- (Author), Wiers, Vincent C. S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, [New York] (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) Momentum Press 2015
Series:Engineering management collection
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Online Access:FWS01
FWS02
Summary: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
Item Description:Includes index
Title from PDF title page (viewed on December 9, 2015)
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 134 pages) illustrations
ISBN:9781606508527