Project Management — the process of managing, allocating, and timing resources to achieve a given goal in an efficient and expedient manner — has emerged as a separate discipline that is being increasingly embraced by various sectors, ranging from business to engineering. Comprehensive in perspective, this book presents an approach to project management — from planning through implementation — that integrates qualitative and quantitative techniques . Practical in approach, it demonstrates with numerous examples how three categories of tools — management practices, optimization models, and computer applications — complement one another to enhance overall project management. Considers traditional project management techniques, modern applications of operations research methodologies, and computer applications — as well as supporting topics such as forecasting and inventory management. Reviews other methodologies, such as regression analysis and decision making methodologies that a project manager can utilize. Organizes chapters hierarchically to illustrate the incremental steps in a project management process — from setting project goals to terminating the project. Features numerous examples and a chapter-length case study. For Industrial Engineers and Operations Managers.

Comprehensive Project Management: Integrating Optimization Models, Management Principles, and Computers

Business & Money

Badiru, Adedeji Bodunde

Pulat, P. Simin

Management & Leadership

PRENTICE/HALL

This comprehensive guide to engineering and manufacturing applications of expert systems takes an integrated approach to the expert system development process. Emphasizing the basic concepts and procedures, it focuses not only on the technology of expert systems, but also on how to select, initiate, implement, and manage the technology. The book presents guidelines ranging from problem selection, data analysis, validation, integration, implementation, and maintenance. It also covers heuristics, mathematical calculations, large data manipulations, statistical analysis, real-time information management, system optimization, and man-machine interfaces.

Expert Systems Applications in Engineering and Manufacturing (Prentice-hall International Series in Industrial & Systems Engineering)

Computers & Technology

Computer Science

Pearson College Div

The essential guide to achieving compliance INDUSTRY'S GUIDE TO ISO 9000 For manufacturers to compete in today's highly competitive global marketplace, compliance with ISO 9000 standards has become a necessity. Industry's Guide to ISO 9000 offers industry practitioners a complete reference guide to achieving compliance as efficiently and painlessly as possible. It focuses on changes at the product development level and on the technical and managerial processes needed to implement them. Introduces ISO 9000, including audits, documentation, and implementation * Provides an overview of recent developments in global quality standards * Emphasizes project management techniques * Examines the relationship between ISO 9000 and Total Quality Management Industry's Guide to ISO 9000 is an invaluable reference source for professionals in all functional areas of industry, including engineers, designers, managers, and supervisors. Astute manufacturers know that consumer behavior has changed drastically in recent years. They know that customers have become much more demanding; and that only high-quality products will survive in today's competitive marketplace. In the light of these developments, the set of guidelines known as ISO 9000 has emerged as a worldwide standard of quality and customer service. To help manufacturers achieve compliance with these standards and, therefore, be able to compete globally, Industry's Guide to ISO 9000 offers a complete reference book for industry practitioners. It emphasizes technical and managerial processes, especially project management techniques, to implement changes at the product development level. Because personnel play a central role in the ISO 9000 standard, Industry's Guide to ISO 9000 focuses on people-related issues and shows how, with proper management, normally arduous procedures can be made easier for all concerned. Key features of this exceptional book include: * Background review of global quality perspectives new definitions of quality, international standards, and the role of leadership * Introduction to ISO 9000 definition, purpose, implementation, audits, documentation, and more * An analysis of the relationship between ISO 9000 and Total Quality Management * ISO quality system requirements, project management, and planning guidelines * Quality audit techniques, including the types of audit, management review, and sampling strategy This invaluable reference tool includes appendices with glossaries of international business and quality-related terms, units and measures conversion factors, and sources of further information on ISO 9000. Practitioners in all functional areas of business and industry industrial and systems engineers, process engineers, designers, R&amp;D managers, plant managers, production supervisors, manufacturing engineers, and quality engineers will find Industry's Guide to ISO 9000 an essential guide to professional success.

Industry's Guide to Iso 9000 (Wiley Series in Engineering and Technology Management)

Wiley-Interscience

Project management is a system originally developed within the construction industry for controlling schedules, costs, and specifications of large multitask projects. In recent years, manufacturers have discovered that project management's time-tested techniques dovetail neatly with the current thinking on quality control and management in a highly competitive global marketplace. The system has been increasingly recognized for its suitability in the manufacturing process and is now applied in virtually every area of production. 
One of the foremost proponents of this trend is Adedeji Badiru, an internationally recognized authority on project management, whose books have helped thousands of companies adapt the system to their particular needs. This completely revised Second Edition of Badiru's breakthrough publication, Project Management in Manufacturing and High Technology Operations, focuses on the dramatic increase in the use of high-tech machinery in industrial operations, and seamlessly integrates high-tech themes into a general discussion of project management. An introductory chapter on manufacturing analysis investigates how the latest concepts and techniques of project management are applied to manufacturing. The main body of the book offers a wealth of new material, including discussions of learning curve analysis, basic models for forecasting and inventory control, economic analysis of manufacturing, techniques for data analysis, and the application of expert systems. The chapter on computer applications in project management is completely revised and updated to reflect the enormous strides taken in this area in recent years. This book presents an up-to-date, practical approach to project management in manufacturing. Written by a pioneer in the application of project management to the manufacturing industries, this revised and expanded Second Edition of Project Management in Manufacturing and High Technology Operations reflects the increased use of high-tech machinery in industrial operations and the trends of recent years to apply project management methods to every phase of production. Complete with numerous illustrations, as well as exercises to wrap up each chapter, this Second Edition features: <ul>
<li>An emphasis on practical examples, including many new case studies, and a full chapter on the lessons learned from the space shuttle Challenger disaster</li> <li>Many new project management concepts and techniques that focus on manufacturing but can be applied to any project</li> </ul>
A new chapter on manufacturing systems analysis that provides the backdrop for the project analysis that takes place throughout the book Expanded discussions of the latest quantitative and managerial approaches, including learning curve analysis, basic models for forecasting and inventory control, economic analysis of manufacturing, techniques for data analysis, and the application of expert systems A strong international perspective, useful for multinational companies and for academic purposes This book equips engineers and managers with the tools to effectively manage all aspects of a project, including quality control, schedules, and expenses. Used as a text in engineering or business courses, it offers absorbing supplemental reading for students at the upper undergraduate and graduate levels. Professor Badiru has been widely praised for his incisive and highly relevant case studies. In this Second Edition, the case-study approach is expanded so that chapters typically include two real-world examples of the project management techniques or issues in question. In the final chapter, Badiru takes a close and painful look at a high-tech disaster, the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. He offers rare and instructive insight into the devastating failure of a high-tech project―still poignant, des

Project Management in Manufacturing and High Technology Operations

Conventional public management techniques in industrial management projects are often insufficient because they cannot respond or adapt to the dynamism of modern and global markets. This guide shows how to overcome these problems by using project management techniques that expedite industrial development in regional, national, and global settings. Using real-world examples and a systems approach, the author provides a project management model that accounts for all critical interfaces in industrial development projects. He explores every aspect of project planning and organization, as well as cultural and human resource issues. Key areas discussed include how to: * Schedule and control projects * Conduct and evaluate project feasibility studies * Select a project manager and staff the project * Secure the best experts for various project functions * Expedite transfer of industrial technology from developed to developing nations Coverage of budgeting and cash-flow analysis promotes understanding of the cost aspects of projects. Readers are shown how to use the Critical Path Method and Program Evaluation and Review Techniques to streamline project scheduling. They also find out how to use learning curve analysis to evaluate project performance. Guidelines on managing multinational projects are supplemented with case studies that illustrate successful industrial development in different countries. Appendices list numerous research, industrial, and economic resources, as well as United Nations information sources. Managing Industrial Development Projects paves the way for successful outcomes in countries that need them most. It is a valuable reference for practitioners, public administrators, and national policy makers, as well as students in industrial engineering, industrial administration, engineering management, and public administration programs.

Managing Industrial Development Projects: A Project Management Approach

Economics

wiley

Provides an up-to-date integration of expert systems with fuzzy logic and neural networks. 
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<li>Includes coverage of simulation models not present in other books.</li> <li>Presents cases and examples taken from the authors' experience in research and applying the technology to real-world situations.</li> </ul>

Fuzzy Engineering Expert Systems with Neural Network Applications

Cheung, John

Certification

Managing high technology and manufacturing projects presents special challenges, whether it involves the automation of a plant, installation of manufacturing system cells, new product development, or plant-wide capacity planning analysis. This book presents a new, flexible approach to project management designed to generate and sustain communication, cooperation, and coordination in a project environment--and it's applicable to very large systems or small sub-contracted projects. Covers major scheduling methods, including PERT, CPM, and precedence diagramming--and introduces the composite allocation factor (CAF), which effectively allocates resources to competing activities. There are also revealing case studies, including an analysis of the management events that led to the space shuttle accident.

Project Management in Manufacturing and High Technology Operations (Wiley Series in Engineering and Technology Management)

Computer Tools, Models, and Techniques for Project Management

Whitehouse, Gary E.

Tab Professional & Reference

How to avoid the missed deadlines, poor scheduling, inadequate budgeting, lack of coordination, and conflicting priorities endemic to most projects. Covers decision making, data analysis and management, CPM and PERT networks, quantitative analysis, and mathematical models. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Project Management Tools for Engineering and Management Professionals

Inst of Industrial Engineers

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