Handbook of Industrial Engineering: Technology and Operations Management - Couverture rigide

Salvendy, G

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0470241829 ISBN 13 : 9780470241820

Editeur : John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2007

Synopsis

Unrivaled coverage of a broad spectrum of industrial engineering concepts and applications The Handbook of Industrial Engineering, Third Edition contains a vast array of timely and useful methodologies for achieving increased productivity, quality, and competitiveness and improving the quality of working life in manufacturing and service industries. This astoundingly comprehensive resource, now available in a three-volume set, also provides a cohesive structure to the discipline of industrial engineering with four major classifications: technology; performance improvement management; management, planning, and design control; and decision-making methods. Completely updated and expanded to reflect nearly a decade of important developments in the field, this Third Edition features a wealth of new information on project management, supply-chain management and logistics, and systems related to service industries. Other important features of this essential reference include: More than 1,000 helpful tables, graphs, figures, and formulas Step-by-step descriptions of hundreds of problem-solving methodologies Hundreds of clear, easy-to-follow application examples Contributions from 176 accomplished international professionals with diverse training and affiliations More than 4,000 citations for further reading Volume 1 includes the list of advisory board members, the contributors, Foreword by John Powers, Preface by Gavriel Salvendy, the table of contents, Section 1: Industrial Engineering Function and Skills, and Section II: Technology. Volume 2 includes Section III: Performance Improvement Management and Section IV: Management, Planning, Design, and Control. Volume 3 includes Section V: Methods for Decision Making and the comprehensive Author and Subject Index. The Handbook of Industrial Engineering, Third Edition is an immensely useful one-stop resource for industrial engineers and technical support personnel in corporations of any size; continuous process and discrete part manufacturing industries; and all types of service industries, from healthcare to hospitality, and from retailing to finance.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

Unrivaled coverage of a broad spectrum of industrial engineering concepts and applications

The Handbook of Industrial Engineering, Third Edition contains a vast array of timely and useful methodologies for achieving increased productivity, quality, and competitiveness and improving the quality of working life in manufacturing and service industries. This astoundingly comprehensive resource also provides a cohesive structure to the discipline of industrial engineering with four major classifications: technology; performance improvement management; management, planning, and design control; and decision–making methods.

Completely updated and expanded to reflect nearly a decade of important developments in the field, this Third Edition features a wealth of new information on project management, supply–chain management and logistics, and systems related to service industries. Other important features of this essential reference include:
∗ More than 1,000 helpful tables, graphs, figures, and formulas
∗ Step–by–step descriptions of hundreds of problem–solving methodologies
∗ Hundreds of clear, easy–to–follow application examples
∗ Contributions from 176 accomplished international professionals with diverse training and affiliations
∗ More than 4,000 citations for further reading

The Handbook of Industrial Engineering, Third Edition is an immensely useful one–stop resource for industrial engineers and technical support personnel in corporations of any size; continuous process and discrete part manufacturing industries; and all types of service industries, from healthcare to hospitality, from retailing to finance.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Advanced undergraduates, graduate students and postdocs, chemists working in academia and industry in the areas of organic and organometallic chemistry, organic synthesis, medicinal and pharmaceutical chemistry.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0470241829
• ISBN 13: 9780470241820
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 2836
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible