Books : Factory Physics Second Edition
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by: Wallace Hopp, Mark Spearman
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.5
EAN: 9780256247954
ISBN: 0256247951
Label: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 720
Publication Date: April 04, 2000
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Sales Rank: 401384
Studio: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
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Product Description:
Comprehensive Introduction to Manufacturing Management text covering the behavior laws at work in factories. Examines operating policies and strategic objectives. Hopp presents the concepts of manufacturing processes and controls within a 'physics' or 'laws of nature' analogy--a novel approach. There is enough quantitative material for an engineer's course, as well as narrative that a management major can understand and apply.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Simple and straight to the point
The book covers almost all the topics needed to know what happens in a factory (what to do and what not to do). The Factory Physics part of the book introduces common models that build intuition and help expecting outputs; not all models should be taken at face value, but they do help in understanding how things are going.
Rating: - It was a good deal too
The Book was in Excellent shape. It was a good deal too
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Rating: - Theoretical background for Operations Management - setting a new standard
This book provides you with the fundamental insights of manufacturing and assembly. Even though I do not like statistics to much, the book is written in a understandable manner and provides the fundamental knowledge to understand what is going on in manufacturing. Based on this knowledge, the flaw of MRP-systems are even explained as well as the basics of JIT/Lean. The book provides mainly the hardfacts of this science and for practical people, reading first Quick-Response-Manufacturing (from Rajan ... Read More
Rating: - written with the heart of a teacher
Though the two authors are consultants, they are foremost - teachers. What is useful, and kind to a degree, is they put an effort to explain the numbers as pragmatic as possible. That idea made this book very accessible. To the industrial engineers or those who are involved (and passionate) in operations or in understanding systems - next to the Industrial Engineering Handboook, this should be in our library.
Rating: - Exceptional enlightened and insightful!
I found this book to be very insightful. It helps to explain many of my own observations in my factory. The authors did an excellent job of explaining the key concepts using only average use of mathematics and in simple layman's terms. The readers will only need basic mathematics/beginner calculus, and basic statistics. Reading it was like discovering new ideas to implement in the factory to quickly realize efficiencies and cost savings. It was one of the best books I have laid eyes on in a very ... Read More
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