Applied Production and Operations Management

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West Publishing Company, 1987 - Factory management - 660 pages
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Contents

Introduction to ProductionOperations Management
3
Productivity Quality and Profitability
37
STRATEGIC ISSUES IN PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
61
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James Robert Evans
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About the author (1987)

James R. Evans is Professor of Quantitative Analysis and Operations Management, and Director of the Total Quality Management Center in the College of Business Administration at the University of Cincinnati. He received BSIE and MSIE degrees from Purdue, and a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Professor Evans has published over 70 refereed journal articles and many conference proceedings papers, and is author or co-author of over a dozen books in the areas of quality management and control, management science, operations management, creative thinking, and mathematics.
He serves on several editorial boards of research journals and is a Fellow in and was 1997-98 President of the Decision Sciences Institute. He has also been active in the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science and the Institute of Industrial Engineers, having served as Cincinnati Chapter President and national Director of the Operations Research Division.
Professor Evans has done applied operations research for several companies, was a finalist in the INFORMS Franz Edelman Competition, and schedules umpires for The American Baseball League. He has served as an Examiner and Senior Examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award from 1994 through 1999; judge for the Ohio Manufacturer's Association Case Studies in Team Excellence Competition since 1996; and Chair of the Seasongood Innovation Awards for the City of Cincinnati in 1997-1998.

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TitleApplied Production and Operations Management
AuthorJames Robert Evans
Edition2, illustrated
PublisherWest Publishing Company, 1987
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedDec 17, 2007
ISBN0314284893, 9780314284891
Length660 pages
  
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