Product Description: In the same way as the 4Ps of marketing are a fundamental principle of business theory, this book puts forward the 10Ps of Risk Management as a consistent and comprehensive approach to the subject. The 10Ps of Risk Management offers a holistic approach, bringing together all elements of risk management for managers, safety and environmental consultants, business advisers and students on occupational health and safety and environmental studies courses...read more

Product Description: Setting the PACE in Product Development describes how to effectively manage the key ingredients of successful product development: time, quality, talent and resources. This revised edition of Product Development provides essential insight as to how to efficiently organize people, resources and processes to dramatically improve financial results, strategic positions, internal morale and customer satisfaction...read more

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Product Description: Reports from an ambitious MIT research project that makes the case for encouraging the colocation of manufacturing and innovation. Production in the Innovation Economy emerges from several years of interdisciplinary research at MIT on the links between manufacturing and innovation in the United States and the world economy...read more

In recent years the topic of multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) has received increasing attention in the literature and is rapidly becoming recognized as a practical approach to certain classes of management problems. This volume provides a refreshing insight into the practical use of the various techniques for solving problems in industry and moves the approach closer towards general acceptance. As well as providing a perceptive overview of the fundamentals of multiple criteria decision making and the various techniques, the volume also shows the practical application of the approach in both production management and business management situations. This volume will be essential reading for academics, both in teaching and research, and also to managers who wish to expand their knowledge and improve their decision making and evaluation strengths. The lucid style of the author will enable beginners in the MCDM field to follow the text with ease.

Product Description: This book is dedicated to the protection of horses, ponies and donkeys and is based on first-hand international experience from a lifetime spent with horses—hunting, racing and welfare—whether with The Pony Club, The Jockey Club or international horse charity...read more

The book proposes a unified mathematical treatment of production planning and production smoothing problems, in the framework of optimal control theory. General concave and convex cost models which relate most closely to real life applications are considered. Planning horizon results are always central to the discussion and developments. This allows the treatment of finite horizon problems only, and guarantees that the production plan implemented over the first periods is optimal with regard to any demand pattern beyond the planning horizon. Algorithms are proposed to compute the optimal production policy, together with the corresponding software designed to be implemented on any microcomputer. The book is organized in seven chapters and a mathematical appendix, which provides the reader with all the necessary background to render the volume self-contained.

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Product Description: This handbook provides an overview and synthesis of relevant literature related to the issue of the well-being of working women. This focus addresses a gap that currently exists in the quality-of-life and well-being fields. The work of the authors answers the following broad questions: Does gender matter in the well-being of working women? Do prejudices against and stereotypes of women still play a role in inter-personal interactions in the workplace that could hinder women from flourishing professionally? Does the organizational context, such as organizational culture, reward systems, and leadership, contribute to the well-being of working-women? What impact does the national context have on the well-being of working women? And finally, how can public policies help enhance the well-being of working women? These are important issues for academics, researchers, and graduate students interested in gender issues in the fields of management, sociology, psychology, social psychology, economics, and quality of life studies...read more

Much has been said and written about Japan's manufacturing prowess. Most ofthe comment comes from people who are merely visitors to the country and can be best cIassified as 'observers looking in from the outside'. Other views come from the Japanese themselves in which the double barrier of culture and language filters out much information that would be of real value to Western industrialists. Neither of these limitations apply to John Hartley, who has been resident in Japan for the past five years. He understands the culture, can speak the language and has extensive contacts at the highest level. Therefore, he is in a unique position to report on the Japanese scene and its activities in advanced manufacturing technology. This he has been doing on a regular basis to IFS magazines: The Industrial Robot, Assembly Automation, Sensor Review and The FMS Magazine. Most of the material in this book is from John Hartley's 'pen' and represents his most significant contributions on flexible automation in Japan to these journals over the last three years. It is augmented with a few other articles written by leading authorities on new technology in Japanese manufacturing industry.

This book is unique in the way that it looks at the much talked about maritime security through the perspective of national security, without disconnect, in the terrain specific mode of the ocean. The uniqueness is not in the treatment of the concept of maritime security but that of national security in a manner that is different from the beaten notion of physical security of a nation and its people from external and internal threats. National security, according to the author, is more than just military security or the conditions of what is often termed as internal security. It is complex according to his studied findings. The book provides a warning to governments that any approach to national governance without integrated maritime security can be defeating in the overall objective of maximising national security even for landlocked countries in the modern world. The book provides a comprehensive review and analysis of integrated maritime security providing ample scope for further research on many of the concepts and terminologies inculcated as findings of research. The interesting aspect is that the author views maritime security as a ghost protocol to hammer his ideas into the earnest listener.

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Total Quality Control is an approach to manufacturing which aims to eliminate the waste during production manufacturing process, not to achieve customer perceived quality by inspecting and rejecting finished products. With Total Quality Control the customer perception is the same - high quality products - but the difference is in the efficiency of the operation, where problems are identified and corrected before they result in defective products. This book aims to give production directors and engineers an understanding of the task facing manufacturers in attempting to improve quality, and outlines the general solution available to them. The book looks at both the human aspects of motivating and training for quality and the technology available in terms of both inspection and statistical quality control, while not going into exhaustive detail. Implementing Total Quality Control will serve as an essential primer for manufacturers seeking to improve both the quality and the efficiency of their operation.