Operations Strategy: Text and Cases

Part 1 Manufacturing as a competitive weapon: Indalex Ltd manufacturing - missing link in corporate strategy Chandler Home products Sensormatic Electronic Corporation Intercom International the roles and responsibilities of the corporate manufacturing staff Teradyne - the foundry how should you organize manufacturing? FMC, crane and excavator division. Part 2 Strategies and approaches: competing on quality American food and grains - commodity and ingredient procurement quest for the best Steinway and Sons Sanyo Manufacturing Corporation a note on quality - the views of Deming, Juran and Crosby quality on the line competing on productivity a day at Midwest Equipment Applichem why some factories are more productive than others North American Rockwell Draper division Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation the case for managing by the numbers note on the aerospace industry and industrial modernization Vought Aero products - factory of the future Corning glass works - the z-glass project competing on new product processes Allstate chemical company - the commercialization of dynamics the Rogers Corporation - electrolumnescent lamps project Nantucket the Boeing 767 - from concept to production Lehrer McGovern Boris Inc a note on value analysis - its history and methodology. Part 3 Planning and implementing operations strategies over time: building on the past Digital Equipment Corporation - the endpoint model a note on manufacturing resource planning Signetics Corporation - implementing a quality improvement programme (A) Signetics Corporation - implementing a quality improvement programme (D) Copeland Corporation - evolution of a manufacturing strategy, 1975-1982 competing through manufacturing.