Part-I: Understanding Operations • Introduction to Production/Operations Management • Production System: Issues and Environment • Linear Programming • Supply Chain Management • Advance Production System • Operations Strategy, Part-II: Designing Operations • Work Study • Product Design and Development • Just-in-Time • Six Sigma • Total Preventive Maintenance, Part-III: Planning Operations • Forecasting • Capacity Planning • Facility Planning Design • Project Management • Queue Management • Total Productivity Management, Part-IV: Managing & Controlling Operations • Quality Control Management • Aggregate Production Planning • Operations Scheduling and Sequencing • Inventory Management • MRP

This book covers the emerging and important topics related to production and operations management in a systematic way. It covers not only the essentials of planning, designing, managing and controlling of manufacturing operations, but also a number of relevant topics such as total preventive maintenance, environmental issues in production system, advanced production system, total productivity management and work system design, which are not covered in many books. The book is a useful resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of MBA programmes, as well as B.Tech and M.Tech programmes of production and industrial engineering."