Wallace J. Hopp

Our economy and future way of life depend on how well American manufacturing managers adapt to the dynamic, globally competitive landscape and evolve their firms to keep pace. A major challenge is how to structure the firm s environment so that it attains the speed and low cost of high-volume flow lines while retaining the flexibility and customization potential of a low-volume job shop. The book's three parts are organized according to three categories of skills required by managers and basics, intuition, and synthesis. Part I reviews traditional operations management techniques and identifies the necessary components of the science of manufacturing. Part II presents the core concepts of the book, beginning with the structure of the science of manufacturing and a discussion of the systems approach to problem solving. Other topics include behavioral tendencies of manufacturing plants, push and pull production systems, the human element in operations management, and the relationship between quality and operations. Chapter conclusions include main points and observations framed as manufacturing laws. In Part III, the lessons of Part I and the laws of Part II are applied to address specific manufacturing management issues in detail. The authors compare and contrast common problems, including shop floor control, long-range aggregate planning, workforce planning, and capacity management. A main focus in Part III is to help readers visualize how general concepts in Part II can be applied to specific problems. Written for both engineering and management students, the authors demonstrate the effectiveness of a rule-based and data driven approach to operations planning and control. They advance an organized framework from which to evaluate management practices and develop useful intuition about manufacturing systems. Titles of related interest also from Waveland Hopp, Supply Chain Science (ISBN 9781577667384) and Nahmias-Olsen, Production and Operations Analysis, Seventh Edition (ISBN 9781478623069). Table of Contents 0. Factory Physics? THE LESSONS OF HISTORY 1. Manufacturing in America, 2. Inventory From EOQ to ROP, 3. The MRP Crusade, 4. From the JIT Revolution to Lean Manufacturing, 5. What Went Wrong? FACTORY PHYSICS 6. A Science of Manufacturing, 7. Basic Factory Dynamics, 8. Variability Basics, 9. The Corrupting Influence of Variability, 10. Push and Pull Production Systems, 11. The Human Element in Operations Management, 12. Total Quality Manufacturing PRINCIPLES IN PRACTICE 13. A Pull Planning Framework, 14. Shop Floor Control, 15. Production Scheduling, 16. Aggregate and Workforce Planning, 17. Supply Chain Management, 18. Capacity Management, 19. Synthesis--Putting It All Together

By one estimate, the U.S. wastes $480 billion annually on healthcare expenditures that don’t improve care. Worse, because of faulty systems – not personnel – up to 98,000 people die every year due to preventable medical errors – and that doesn’t count non-terminal events such as hospital-acquired infections. In Hospital Operations, two leading operations management experts and four senior physicians demonstrate how to apply new OM advances to substantially improve any hospital’s operational, clinical, and financial performance. Replete with examples, this bookshows how to diagram hospital flows, trace interconnections, and optimize flows for better performance. Readers will find specific guidance on improving emergency departments, operating rooms, hospital floors, and diagnostic units; and successfully applying metrics. Coverage reducing ER overcrowding and enhancing patient safety…improving OR scheduling, enhancing organizational learning, and responding to surgeons and other stakeholders… improving bed availability, optimizing nurse schedules, and creating more seamless patient handoffs… reducing lab turnaround time, improving imaging responsiveness, and decreasing lab errors…successfully applying the right metrics for every facet of hospital performance. The authors conclude by previewing the "Hospital of the Future," addressing issues ranging from prevention and self-care to the evolution of technology and evidence-based medicine.

Managers face an infinite range of situations and problems that involve bringing materials and information together to produce and deliver goods and services to customers. In Hopp's solid, practical introduction to manufacturing and supply chain dynamics, managers learn how to use the scientific approach—to understand "why" systems behave the way they do—as an effective way to deal with almost any scenario they may face. Written in a reader-friendly style, the text includes useful examples from manufacturers as well as service providers, presents the key concepts that underlie the behavior of operations systems in a largely nonmathematical way, contains illustrations and analogies to everyday life, links theory to practice, and reinforces the learning process with end-of-chapter "Questions for Thought." Titles of related interest also from Waveland Hopp-Spearman, Factory Physics, Third Edition (ISBN 9781577667391) and Nahmias-Olsen, Production and Operations Analysis, Seventh Edition (ISBN 9781478623069). Table of Contents 0. STRATEGIC FOUNDATIONS Starting with Strategy / Setting Our Goals / Defining Our Terms / Structuring Our Study STATION SCIENCE 1. Capacity, 2. Variability, 3. Batching LINE SCIENCE 4. Flows, 5. Buffering, 6. Push/Pull NETWORK SCIENCE 7. Inventory, 8. Risk, 9. Coordination Appendix Summary of Notation Appendix Supply Chain Science Principles

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Hospital Operations Principles of High Efficiency Health Care by Hopp, Wallace J., Lovejoy, William S.. Published by FT Press,2012, Hardcover

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