World Class Operations Management

WCOM, World Class Operations Management, is an original and integrated system, a structured kit of methods designed to improve company performance

• It has grown from our collaboration with major multinational companies, identifying and employing the best of different cultures and global managerial experiences. It is continuously upgraded and enriched, always taking into account practical experiences, and made available electronically to our worldwide network of consultants in real time.
• It is “the Single Agenda” to reach in the shortest time an excellent Operations Management. Priorities are identified according to set rules developed with many years of experience.
• It assures a strong and viable Know-How transfer from our Consultants to our Customers and helps people involved in the improvement route rapidly reach autonomy. WCOM combines methodological rigour with focus on results in the shortest time, with an unusual ability to overcome typical workplace obstacles and conflicts.

WCOM is all about:

• World class manufacturing management
• World class supply chain management
• World class business process management
• World class change management
• World class product & process development

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Handbook of Production Management Methods

Handbook of Production Management Methods (PDF File)

by Halevi Gideon

“Manufacturing processes require a knowledge of many disciplines, including
design, process planning, costing, marketing, sales, customer relations, costing, purchasing, bookkeeping, inventory control, material handling, shipping and so on. It is unanimously agreed that each discipline in the manufacturing process must consider the interests of other disciplines. These interests of the different disciplines may conflict with one another, and a compromise must be made. Managers and the problems they wish to solve in their organization set particular requirements, and compromises are made by ‘weighting’ each of these requirements. Different organizations will have different needs and thus differently weighted requirements….”

Selecting the Right Manufacturing Improvement Tools

Selecting the Right Manufacturing Improvement Tools (PDF File)
by Ron Moore

“Manufacturing companies are deluged with various improvement tools. These are characterized as tools, methods, techniques, technologies, processes, practices, systems, and perhaps by other names that do not immediately come to mind. For purposes of this book, although not fully adequate, I w^ill typically use the word “tools.” SIRF-Roundtables, a networking organization of over 100 companies in Australia, surveyed its members and developed a listing of some 75 of these so-called tools …”