Skinner W. Manufacturing in the Corporate Strategy 1978

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This book offers a new way for top management to perceive and manage manufacturing. It does not demean the older, from the bottom up, detailed type of tools, which in most cases are just as useful as ever. These old tools – for example, time and motion studies, operation research techniques, and the more traditional approaches in industrial engineering – are useful for optimizing one facet or another of a manufacturing operation