Publisher's Synopsis
Designed for undergraduates taking their first course in industrial engineering and professional engineers and managers who want to learn about the field, this work reviews many of the core industrial engineering subjects, which the student will study later in more detail. These include TQM, concurrent engineering, Taguchi methods, JIT and expert systems. Operations research and systems techniques, the Kanban system and other Japanese techniques, the history of industrial engineering, productivity and decision sciences are also covered. Real industrial examples are used to illustrate major concepts.
