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Total Manufacturing Solutions is a blueprint for manufacturing excellence and performance improvement. In a refreshing and innovative manner, this book will show you how to achieve world class manufacturing status for your organization. Total Manufacturing Solutions identifies the six core areas of manufacturing as: *marketing and innovation *supply chain management *environment and safety *manufacturing facilities *procedures *people. These six core areas or 'pillars' are supported by 20 essential 'foundation stones'. It is upon this fundamental structure that manufacturing is based. Total Manufacturing Solutions is not another management fad. It provides you with 200 pivotal questions derived from this 6 pillar structure from which you can benchmark your own organization. Such a comprehensive self-examination will enable you to recognize your strengths and weaknesses and from here this book suggests practical strategies which can be adopted to help your organization become a world class enterprise. Ron Basu is an International Management Consultant attached to a large multinational organisation. He has advised many leading FMCG companies worldwide in manufacturing and sourcing strategy, computer integrated manufacturing, total productive maintenance and supply chain re-engineering. He is a fellow of both the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Institute of Management Consultants. J.Nevan Wright is a lecturer at Henley Management College, UK and Auckland Institute of Technology, New Zealand. He is also a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Management. Prior to joining academia in 1990 he was a Director/Manager of several large New Zealand and multi-national manufacturing companies. Ideal for advanced management and specialist manufacturing courses. Gives genuine practical help to companies who want to use excellence in manufacturing as a competitive weapon Addresses the whole spectrum of manufacturing business

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'This is a book for those who are not satisfied with the theory, and who want to know how to achieve things in practice. It will show you not only why you cannot afford not to get started, but how to do so - and help you achieve tangible benefits.'<br>Ray Wild, Henley Management College. <br>'The book is blessed by virtue of its versatility and its ideas, if intelligently applied, can contribute to our manufacturing sector becoming more competitive...may the sales be a roaring success.'<br>Sir Gavin Laird, CBE<br>Trade Union Leader <br>'..essential reading for any manufacturing organisation which aspires to world class status.'<br>Dr John Hinchcliff, President Auckland Institute of Technology, New Zealand <br> practical and muddy-booted <br>Sir John Harvey-Jones <br>'In a refreshing and innovative manner, this book shows the reader how to <br>achieve world class manufacturing status for their organisation.'<br>International Logistics Abstracts Feb 1997 <br>' In a refresh

'This is a book for those who are not satisfied with the theory, and who want to know how to achieve things in practice. It will show you not only why you cannot afford not to get started, but how to do so - and help you achieve tangible benefits.'Ray Wild, Henley Management College. 'The book is blessed by virtue of its versatility and its ideas, if intelligently applied, can contribute to our manufacturing sector becoming more competitive...may the sales be a roaring success.'Sir Gavin Laird, CBETrade Union Leader '..essential reading for any manufacturing organisation which aspires to world class status.'Dr John Hinchcliff, President Auckland Institute of Technology, New Zealand practical and muddy-booted Sir John Harvey-Jones 'In a refreshing and innovative manner, this book shows the reader how to achieve world class manufacturing status for their organisation.'International Logistics Abstracts Feb 1997 ' In a refresh

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