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John C. Nwachukwu
John C.
Nwachukwu
Some aspects of production technology and management in advanced production systems
Loughborough University
2018
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Mechanical Engineering not elsewhere classified
2018-02-27 14:44:07
Thesis
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/thesis/Some_aspects_of_production_technology_and_management_in_advanced_production_systems/9537491
British industrial productivity (in terms of value added per employee)
and industrial performance have reportedly been declining in recent
years. This decline has been blamed on, among other factors, poor
production management. This has generated considerable interest in the
function and led to several studies of production management and the
production manager's job. After an extensive review of these studies,
it was felt that they were mainly descriptive in nature and generalistic
in their analysis. Some of these studies were regional in character
and biased in certain other respects, and could not therefore represent
the true national picture of the production manager's job. [Continues.]