Engineering management : creating and managing world-class operations / W. Dale Compton

Includes index.

The "SYSTEM perspective" of the manufacturing enterprise -- The manufacturing sector -- Strategic goals and objectives -- Operating goals and objectives -- Early management focus-- historical highlights -- Current management focus-participative management -- The employees -- Leadership -- Organizing the enterprise -- The customer : their wants and needs -- Translating customer wants and needs into a product or process -- Creating and controlling the manufacturing operation -- Analyzing and describing the manufacturing system -- Investments in technology : why? when? by whom? and how much? -- Creating the technology roadmap for the enterprise -- Managing the technology.

This book combines management principles and techniques with technical/engineering issues in a single volume. Organizes content around the ten Foundations of World Class Practice that must be followed to reach World Class Status. Topics include goals and objectives, metrics, management's personal commitment, employee involvement, etc. A book useful for managers and management trainees.