TRADITIONAL PRODUCTION SYSTEMS:
The birth of the manufacturing systems
The “big industry”
Information technologies and automatic control of production processes.
FORDISM AND JUST-IN-CASE (JIC) PRODUCTION:
Taylor and the scientific organization of work
Ford and the assembly line
Sloan and decentralization with coordinated control?
The Just-in-Case management of production
Classification of production systems
THE ADVANCED PRODUCTION SYSTEM:
Flexible production systems (FMS)
Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM)
The birth of the Toyota production system (TPS)
The basic principles of TPS
JAPANESE PRODUCTION TECHNIQUES:
Just-in Time
Total Quality Management (TQM)
Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
The Concurrent Engineering (CE)
LEAN PRODUCTION AND WCM:
Lean production
World Class Manufacturing (WCM)
The new model of factory
Process integration and redefinition of CIM models
The Business Process Reengineering (BPR)
Mapping and analysis of processes
ECO-COMPATIBLE PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT:
Eco-compatibility and eco-efficiency
Definition of Industrial Ecology
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Life Cycle Costing (LCC)
Eco-design and reverse logistics
Environmental management systems
Industrial symbiosis
The environmental responsibility of the company and the role of technological innovation