Textbook
Facilities Planning, 4th EditionISBN: 978-0-470-44404-7
Hardcover
864 pages
January 2010, ©2010
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- In this fourth edition, the role of facilities planning within the supply chain has been reexamined. It is now imperative that the facilities planner assist his or her company in progressing through the six levels of supply chain excellence: Business as Usual, Link Excellence, Visibility, Collaboration, Synthesis, and Velocity.
- The 4th edition continues to integrate the engineering design process and application of quantitative tools as a foundation for executing appropriate and successful facilities planning.
- The 4th edition provides more detailed real-world examples and problems concerning current facilities planning practices and dated material has been removed.
- The authors have added new photography of the industry?s latest material-handling equipment and updated the drawing and diagrams to better reflect the practices taking place today.
- For instructors there are improved problem sets, including more quantitative problems, and a greater variety of helpful questions.