Managing Production Engineering Change and Stability [Hardcover]

The management of production is faced with ever greater challenges as global competition mounts. How do firms compete on price while responding quickly to market changes? How do firms develop new products quickly without compromising quality, and how do they increase quality while reducing costs? This study addresses these questions as they confront Britain's metalworking sector, focusing on the engineering/manufacturing interface in fifteen leading firms to draw important lessons for the future.

1. The Challenge of Change
2. New Forms for New Times
3. Analysing Organizational Stability and Change
4. The Context of Change: a Tectonic Approach
5. The Strategic Management of Production
6. Organization Design for Metalworking Production
7. The Engineering/Manufacturing Interface
8. Co-ordinating the Engineering-Manufacturing Interface
9. The Content of Change: The Case of CAD/CAM
10. The Process of Change: Implementation
11. Achieving Successful Implementation
12. Implications and New Directions
Appendix A
Appendix B
Bibliography
Index