Building Manufacturing Competitiveness - The TOC Way - Softcover

Lolla, Shridhar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1484198727 ISBN 13: 9781484198728

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

Across the world, there has been a growing demand to dramatically improve performance of manufacturing sector. However, the prevailing complex and chaotic business environment makes the effort more difficult. India is one country that has set very aggressive commitment to leverage manufacturing in its future growth. It has set an audacious goal to increase share of its manufacturing GDP from 16% to 25% by 2022 and generate 100 million jobs. The book presents, Theory of Constraints, TOC as an approach that has everything to help countries like India in dramatically improving performance of their manufacturing organizations quickly, without taking too much risk and without wasting costly resources. Special feature of this book include: 1. It dovetails application of TOC to the growth agenda of a nation in its natural setting. 2. It presents an algorithm and flowchart for implementing TOC solution in building responsive production system. 3. It provides contextual understanding of TOC. 4. It presents jargon free concepts plus case studies.

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About the Author

Shridhar is a practitioner of Operational Excellence and holds a PhD degree in engineering from IIT Delhi, India. Early in his career, he worked with ABB, Kirloskar Electric, SIFY and Tecumseh. His longest stint was with ABB, the Swiss power and automation technology leader, where in his last assignment, he was Head of Applications and Solutions Group at its Corporate Research Center. Since then, he has gained extensive experience in achieving breakthrough performance in Engineering, Product Development, R&D, IT Services, Software Development and Manufacturing. Shridhar is an application expert of Theory of Constraints (TOC) and shares his time with Goldratt Consulting. His first book, 'Building Manufacturing Competitiveness - The TOC Way' dovetails the TOC approach to dramatically improve performance of manufacturing industry and thereby, unleash economic growth. His second book, 'The Path - Leveraging Operations in a Complex and Chaotic World' is a game changing business novel. He visits, listens, converses, observes and advises teams across Operations. His books contain insights from handholding professionals across multi-locations, in their journey to ever improve impact of operations on business performance. Shridhar is a recognized coach for first generation entrepreneurs and is a part of Indian entrepreneurship ecosystem. Spending the day with operational teams and conducting walk through programs is his calling. Shridhar lives in Bangalore, India. He can be contacted at lolla@cvmark.com

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1484198727
• ISBN 13: 9781484198728
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 176