BIBLIOGRAPHY

Following is a list of books for those of you interested in expanding your manufacturing knowledge. The highlighted titles are the ones we would recommend you to read first.

TEXTBOOKS

• Anupindi, R. et al., Managing Business Process Flows, Prentice Hall, 1999.
• Chase, R. B., Aquilano, N. J., Jacobs, F.R., Production and Operations Management; Manufacturing and Services, Richard D. Irwin, Inc., 1998
• Chopra, S. and Meindl, P., Supply Chain Management, Prentice Hall, 2001
• Krajewski, L. J. and Ritzman, L. P., Operations Management: Strategy and Analysis (fifth edition), Addison-Wesley, 1999.
• Meredith, J. R. and Shafer, S. M., Operations Management for MBAs, J. Wiley, 2002.
• Nahmias, S., Production and Operations Analysis, McGraw-Hill International Editions, 1997.
• Schmenner, R. W., Production/Operations Management; Concepts and Situations, MacMillan. 1989
• Schonberger, R. J., Operations Management. Continuous Improvement , Irwin, 1994.
• Slack, N. et al., Operations Management, Prentice Hall, 2001.

JUST IN TIME

• Hall, R.W., Attaining Manufacturing Excellence; Just in Time, Total Quality, Total People Involvement, The Dow Jones-Irwin/APICS Series in Production Management, 1987
• Japan Management Association, Kanban. Just-in-time at Toyota, Productivity Press, 1989.
• Monden, Y., Toyota Production Systems: an integrated approach to just-in-time, Industrial Engineering and Management Press. Publicado en castellano como El Just in Time Hoy en Toyota, Deusto.
• O'Grady, P.J., Just-in-Time, McGraw-Hill/IESE.
• Schonberger, R. J., Japanese Manufacturing Techniques; Nine Hidden Lessons in Simplicity, The Free Press, 1982. (Existe una edición en castellano).
• Suzaki, K. The New Manufacturing Challenge; Techniques for Continuous Improvement, The Free Press, 1987. (Existe una edición en castellano).

MANUFACTURING, PRODUCTION PLANNING & INVENTORY MANAGEMENT

• Hopp, M. L. and Spearman, W. J., Factory Physics, McGraw-Hill, 2000.
• Silver, E. A., Pyke, D. F. & Peterson, R., Inventory Management and Production Planning and Scheduling, J. Wiley, 1998.
• Vollmann, T. E., Berry W. L., and Whybark, D. C., Manufacturing Planning and Control Systems, Richard D. Irwin, Inc..
• Zipkin, P.H., Foundations of Inventory Management, McGrawHill, 2000 (textbook on theory of inventories)

GENERAL OM ISSUES

• Goldratt, E., The Goal, The North River Press, disponible en castellano: La meta, Díaz de Santos.
• Hayes, R. H., Wheelwright, S. C., Clark, K. B., Dynamic Manufacturing; Creating the Learning Organization, The Free Press, 1988
• Kanawaty, G. (Ed.), Introduction to Work Study, International Labour Office, Geneva, 1957. (4th. Ed. 1992)
• Pinedo, M. and Chao, X., Operations Scheduling, McGraw-Hill, 1999.
• Schonberger, R. J., World Class Manufacturing; The Lessons of Simplicity Applied ,The Free Press, 1986
• Slack, N. and Lewis, M., Operations Strategy, Prentice Hall, 2003.