Cover; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; LIST OF FIGURES; 1 -- NEW WAVE MANUFACTURING STRATEGIES:AN INTRODUCTION; 2 -- THE LINK BETWEEN MANUFACTURING S TRATEGY, ORGANIZATION AND TECHNOLOGY; 3 -- THE PROBLEM OF IMPLEMENTING A MANUFACTURING STRATEGY; 4 -- THE DESIGN- MANUFACTURING INTERFACE; 5 -- FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; 6 -- TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; 7 -- COMPUTER- INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING: ELEMENTS AND TOTALITY; 8 -- MANUFACTURING RESOURCE PLANNING; 9 -- JUST-IN-TIME MANUFACTURING; 10 -- CELLULAR MANUFACTURE AND THE ROLE OF TEAMS; 11 -- WORKER RESPONSES TO NEW WAVE MANUFACTURING
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Over the past decade, many companies have adopted new strategies for manufacturing, which have taken their competitiveness on to new planes. A whole array of initiatives, such as FMS, JIT, TQM, CIM, and MRP II, have been introduced. This book deals with the far-reaching significance of these new approaches - collectively labelled ""new wave manufacturing"". Considerable research evidence as well as practitioners' own experiences make one crucial point time and time again. The organizational as well as the human resource management aspects of these new strategies are critical to th.