How to turn round a manufacturing company Book

	Foreword
	Acknowledgements
	Preface
1	The manufacturing framework
1.1	Disaster and response - introduction
1.2	Company analysis
1.3	Changing course
1.4	The position paper
1.5	The production framework
1.6	Setting key objectives
1.7	Profit planning in a manufacturing company
1.8	The role of management, especially the senior manager in the organization
1.9	Conclusion
2	The product market
2.2	Pressures to change
3	Technology
3.2	High technology and the production process
3.3	Elements of CIM
3.4	Advanced manufacturing technology in action
3.5	Material flow and technology
3.6	The Ferodo approach
3.7	Technology and the money problem
3.8	High technology - the only answer to manufacturing problems?
3.9	World-class manufacturers
4	Resource utilization and cost control
4.2	People
4.3	Cash
4.4	Reduction in administration costs
4.5	Privatization of fixed cost
4.6	Factory fixed cost
4.7	Working capital
4.8	Waste disposal
4.9	Theft and security in resources control
4.10	Purchasing
4.11	JIT - a myth in its own lifetime
4.12	Research and Development
4.13	Product design and R&D
4.14	Resources data and control
5	Work organization and training
5.2	Some organizational cul-de-sacs and responses
5.3	Goal conflict and work organization
5.4	Effective organization
5.5	Teams/groups
5.6	First-line supervision
5.7	The road to setting up new work organizations
5.8	Trade unions
5.9	Discipline unfair dismissal
5.10	Training
5.11	Senior and middle management training
5.12	Training for multi-skilling
6	Systems and information technology
6.2	IT - definition and use
6.3	Systems design
6.4	Operational Planning
6.5	Systems specification/statement of user requirements
6.6	The initial debate
6.7	Implementation of MRP II
6.8	Management Accounting and business planning
6.9	Development of a Management Accounting system - a summary
6.10	Recording diagrams
6.11	Potential defects in Management Accounting
6.12	ABC - is this an answer?
7	Motivation and Reward systems
7.1	The dilemma in pay and motivation
7.2	Is money the only motivator?
7.3	Non-monetary motivation
7.4	Incentives and motivation - an approach
7.5	Pay schemes - alternatives and problems
7.6	Management incentives/pay schemes
7.7	Relative deprivation and payment schemes
7.8	Objections to change and possible solutions
7.9	Management involvement in changing pay systems
7.10	The way forward
7.11	Solutions
7.12	Future considerations
8	Formulating a manufacturing strategy for the nineties
8.1	Overview
8.2	Culture in developing a manufacturing strategy
8.3	Company aims and objectives
8.4	Plan elements for a company in the nineties
8.5	What kind of a company must we be in the nineties?
8.6	Key questions
8.7	State of the art
8.8	Key elements
8.9	Environmental analysis
8.10	Timescales
8.11	Profit planning
	Appendix 1: Ferodo
	Appendix 2: List of definitions and explanation of terms and acronyms used
	Appendix 3: Training