November 2012
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
16h 49m
English
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Index
A
Activity, defined, 219
Activity durations, 219
Activity-on-arc (AOA), 220
Activity-on-node (AON), 220
Actual cost (AC), 233
Agco Corp., 41
Aggregate inventory value, average (AAIV), 253
defined, 320
Aggregate project plan, 208–211
Airtel, 299
Amazon, 271
American Airlines, 325
American Society for Quality, 159
American Standard, 123
Anchor Brewery, 298
Anticipation inventories, defined, 266
Anticyclic output, 305
Apple, Inc., 2, 5, 35, 242–243, 245
Applied Materials, 244
Applied research, 17
As-is value stream map, 182, 185
Assembly line, 52
Assemble-to-order, 24, 74, 76, 250
Assignable variation, 103
Auto Industry, 3
Autodesk, 275
Available seat miles, 301
B
Backorders, 266
benefits of, 97
four major areas, 97
Barcoding and scanning, 197, 272
Batch size, 75
and flow, 190
Beta distribution, 224
Bias,
of forecast, 363
of measurement system, 148
Big Dig, 205
Binomial distribution, 110
Black and Decker, 39
Black belts, of six sigma, 169
Blue Cross, 323
Blueprinting, 332
Boeing, 39
Bottlenecks, 188, 189, 198, 302, 329, 332
defined, 329
in a sequential process, 329–332
guidelines, ...
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