Analysis of Manufacturing Enterprises An Approach to Leveraging Valu
Analysis of Manufacturing Enterprises presents a unified and systematic treatment of manufacturing enterprises. These enterprises are networks of companies working in partnership. Such networks are a common occurrence in auto, grocery, apparel, computer a
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MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISES An Approach to Leveraging Value Delivery Processes for Competitive Advantage
THE KLUWER INTERNATIONAL SERIES ON DISCRETE EVENT DYNAMIC SYSTEMS Series Editor
Yu-ChiHo Harvard University INTRODUCTION TO DISCRETE EVENT SYSTEMS Christos G. Cassandras, Stephane Lafortune ISBN: 0-7923-8609-4 OBJECT-ORIENTED COMPUTER SIMULATION OF DISCRETE-EVENT SYSTEMS Jerzy Tyszer ISBN: 0-7923-8506-3 TIMED PETRI NETS: Theory and Application Jiacun Wang ISBN: 0-7923-8270-6 GRADIENT ESTIMATION VIA PERTURBATION ANALYSIS P. Glasserman ISBN: 0-7923-9095-4 PERTURBATION ANALYSIS OF DISCRETE EVENT DYNAMIC SYSTEMS Yu-Chi Ho and Xi-Ren Cao ISBN: 0-7923-9174-8 PETRI NET SYNTHESIS FOR DISCRETE EVENT CONTROL OF MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS MengChu Zhou and Frank DiCesare ISBN: 0-7923-9289-2 MODELING AND CONTROL OF LOGICAL DISCRETE EVENT SYSTEMS Ratnesh Kumar and Vijay K. Garg ISBN: 0-7923-9538-7 UNIFORM RANDOM NUMBERS: THEORY AND PRACTICE Shu Tezuka ISBN: 0-7923-9572-7 OPTIMIZATION OF STOCHASTIC MODELS: THE INTERFACE BETWEEN SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION Georg Ch. Pflug ISBN: 0-7923-9780-0 CONDITIONAL MONTE CARLO: GRADIENT ESTIMATION AND OPTIMIZATION APPLICATIONS Michael FU and Jian-Qiang HU ISBN: 0-7923-9873-4 SUPERVISORY CONTROL OF DISCRETE EVENT SYSTEMS USING PETRI NETS John O. Moody and Panos J. Antsaklis ISBN: 0-7923-8199-8
ANALYSISOF MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISES An Approach to Leveraging Value Delivery Processes for Competitive Advantage
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N. Viswanadham Mechanical and Production Engineering and The Logistics Institute-Asia Pacific National University of Singapore
SPRINGER SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, LLC
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Viswanadham, N. 1943Analysis of manufacturing enterprises: an approach to leveraging value delivery processes for competitive advantage / by N. Viswanadham. p. cm. -- (The Kluwer international series on discrete event dynamic systems) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-1-4613-7101-4 ISBN 978-1-4615-4645-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4615-4645-0 1. Production management. 1. Title II. Series. TS155.V561999 658.521--dc21
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Contents
List of Figures List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments
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1. INTRODUCTION 1. The Manufactu