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Record Nr.

UNINA9910337471003321

Titolo

Best Practices in Manufacturing Processes : Experiences from Latin America / / edited by Jorge Luis García Alcaraz, Leonardo Rivera Cadavid, Rosa Guadalupe González-Ramírez, George Leal Jamil, Mario Gustavo Chong Chong

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019

ISBN

3-319-99190-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (558 pages)

Disciplina

330.98

Soggetti

Manufactures

Operations research

Decision making

Engineering economics

Engineering economy

Manufacturing, Machines, Tools, Processes

Operations Research/Decision Theory

Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Techniques, Tools and Methologies -- Production management -- Manufacturing and Technology -- Human factors.

Sommario/riassunto

This book reports the best practices that companies established in Latin America are implementing in their manufacturing processes in order to generate high quality products and stay in the market. It lists the technologies, production and administrative philosophies that are being implemented, presenting a collection of successful cases of studies from Latin America. The book describes how the tools and techniques are being integrated, modified and combined to create new technical resources for assisting the decision making process for better economic performance in manufacturing companies. The efforts deployed for assisting the transformation of raw materials into products and services are described. The authors explain the main key



success factors or drivers for success of each tool, technique or hybrid combination approach applied to solve manufacturing problems. .