| Description |
xxv, 454 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Preface xix -- 1 Fundamental Flaws in European and American -- Production Philosophies 3 -- Misunderstanding the Relations Between Process -- and Operation 4 -- An Inadequate Appreciation ofTwo Delay Phenomena 8 -- Shifting Human Tasks Over to Machines -- (Mechanization and Pre-Automation) 10 -- The Science of Work and the Application of -- Human Engineering 11 -- Understanding Manufacturing and Production -- Technology 13 -- Responding to the Emotional Side of Human Nature 18 -- Is Stock a Necessary Evil or an Absolute Evil? 20 -- Total Waste Elimination and Fundamental Improvement 22 -- The Absence of the Control Function in -- Production Philosophies 23 -- 2 Basic Concepts for Improving Production Systems 25 -- The Cost-Subtraction Principle and the Complete -- Elimination of Waste 25 -- The Three Steps of Improvement 35 -- Non-Stock as a Source of Profit 36 -- Creating Demand 37 -- Delivery Cycles (D) and Production Cycles (P) 39 -- Speculative Production Systems and Assured -- Production Systems 42 -- Inventory and Responses to Demand Fluctuations 50 -- Gaps in Language and Thinking 53 -- Confusing Mass Production and Large-Lot Production 56 -- Summary 59 -- 3 The Scientific Thinking Mechanism (STM) 61 -- Preliminary Step Toward Improvement: The Principles -- of Classification 64 -- Identifying the Problem (Stage 1) 69 -- Basic Conceptual Approaches to Improvement (Stage 2) 73 -- Pursuing Goals (Why? For What Purpose?) 94 -- Better Means 109 -- Making Plans for Improvement (Stage 3) 112 -- Implementing Improvement Plans 184 -- Summary 207 -- 4 Management Functions 209 -- Five Categories of Executive Management 209 -- Management Functions 210 -- Management, Clerical Work, and Organization 221 -- Statistics and Different Management Functions 224 -- The Deming Cycle and Management Functions 227 -- Summary 230 -- 5 The Evolution of Production Systems in the -- Authorized Stock Production (ASP) Era 231 -- Basic Understanding of ASP 231 -- Historical Progress in Productivity Improvement 237 -- Progress through Division of Labor (First -- Industrial Revolution) 239 -- Enhancing Hand Functions (Second Industrial -- Revolution) 247 -- Science of Work (Third Industrial Revolution) 258 -- Ford's Assembly-Line Production 280 -- Responding to Human Needs: The Hawthorne -- Method (Fourth Industrial Revolution) 282 -- Improving Production in the Authorized Stock -- Production (ASP) Era 293 -- Summary 295 -- 6 Development of Production Functions in the -- Non-Stock Production (NSP) Era -- (Fifth Industrial Revolution) 297 -- Philosophy of Non-Stock Production 297 -- Improving Management 300 -- Improving Production Functions 301 -- Improving Process Functions 312 -- Improving Operational Functions 364 -- Improving the Will to Work 379 -- Summary 380 -- 7 Significance of the Different Production Systems 381 -- Production Systems in the ASP Era 381 -- Production Systems in the NSP Era (1970s) 388 -- Conclusion 416 -- Summary 418 -- 8 Comprehensive Overview 419 -- Overview 419 -- Assumptions 420 -- Conceptual Approaches to Improvement 420 -- Improving Production Functions (Authorized Stock -- Production [ASP] Systems) 421 -- Improving the Production Function (Non-Stock -- Production System Era) 423 -- Significant Features ofASP and NSP Production Methods 427 -- Developmental Chronology ofManagement Philosophies 430 -- Postscript 435 -- A Final Note 439 -- Publications 441 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Translation of Non-sutokku seisan hōshiki e no tenkai |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 441-442 |
| Subject |
Production management -- Europe.
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Production management -- Japan.
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Production management -- United States.
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| LC no. |
88042626 |
| ISBN |
0915299305 |
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