Productivity and Profitability in the Process Industries (Hardcover)

Growth in productivity is crucial to long-term economic health, and is especially important in the manufacturing industry to sustain the creation of wealth. The survival of industry in the present economic climate depends very much on the pursuit of the best business policies to cope with market pressures and to survive the competitive challenges.;This book is intended to highlight the importance of statistical methods in addressing these problems, and demonstrates how statistical process control can be an important tool for effective systematic improvement in performance. Selected case studies from experts in the field show how process variations can be identified, analyzed, measured and, where possible, modified so that such variations can be reduced. They discuss the important aspects of "just-in-time" inventory control, and customer service.