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By
Gerhard Greeff, Gerhard Greeff, ND Chem Eng, Dip Prod Man, Dip QA & QC Divisional Manager: Consulting for Altech Informatics in Centurion, South Africa
Ranjan Ghoshal, B.Sc(Chem)(Hons), M.Sc, Factory Manager, Tumkur, India
Description
New technologies are revolutionising the way manufacturing and supply chain management are implemented. These changes are delivering manufacturing
firms the competitive advantage of a highly flexible and responsive supply chain and manufacturing system to ensure that they meet the
high expectations of their customers, who, in today's economy, demand absolutely the best service, price, delivery time and product quality.
To make e-manufacturing and supply chain technologies effective, integration is needed between various, often disparate systems. To
understand why this is such an issue, one needs to understand what the different systems or system components do, their objectives, their
specific focus areas and how they interact with other systems. It is also required to understand how these systems evolved to their current
state, as the concepts used during the early development of systems and technology tend to remain in place throughout the life-cycle
of the systems/technology.
This book explores various standards, concepts and techniques used over the years to model systems and hierarchies
in order to understand where they fit into the organization and supply chain. It looks at the specific system components and the ways
in which they can be designed and graphically depicted for easy understanding by both information technology (IT) and non-IT personnel.
Without a good implementation philosophy, very few systems add any real benefit to an organization, and for this reason the ways in
which systems are implemented and installation projects managed are also explored and recommendations are made as to possible methods
that have proven successful in the past. The human factor and how that impacts on system success are also addressed, as is the motivation
for system investment and subsequent benefit measurement processes.
Finally, the vendor/user supply/demand within the e-manufacturing
domain is explored and a method is put forward that enables the reduction of vendor bias during the vendor selection process.
The objective
of this book is to provide the reader with a good understanding regarding the four critical factors (business/physical processes, systems
supporting the processes, company personnel and company/personal performance measures) that influence the success of any e-manufacturing
implementation, and the synchronization required between these factors.
Audience
* Professional engineers
* Specialist students
* CEOs and CFOs
* Finance Managers
* E-Commerce Managers
* IT Managers
* Business
Managers
* Strategy Managers
* Operations Managers and Engineers
* Production Managers and Engineers
* Senior Process Engineers
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Network and Telecommunications Managers
Contents
1 Introduction to e-manufacturing systems
2 History of business automation
3 System hierarchies and components
4 Business process design
models and concepts used in operations systems
5 Business process and system modeling tools and packages
6 Enterprise planning and supply-chain
interaction
7 Product and plant knowledge management
8 Production capability management
9 Production scheduling, management and control
10 Production data collection and performance analysis
11 Project motivation and benefit quantification
12 System integration models
and concepts
13 Product and vendor evaluation methodology
14 Software project management
15 Change management
16 Conclusion
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Paperback, 461 pages, publication date: AUG-2004
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-6272-7
ISBN-10: 0-7506-6272-7
Imprint: NEWNES
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