Best Practices in Manufacturing Processes Experiences from Latin America

This book reports the best practices that companies established in Latin America are implementing in their manufacturing processes in order to generate high quality products and stay in the market. It lists the technologies, production and administrative philosophies that are being implemented, presenting a collection of successful cases of studies from Latin America. The book describes how the tools and techniques are being integrated, modified and combined to create new technical resources for assisting the decision making process for better economic performance in manufacturing companies. The efforts deployed for assisting the transformation of raw materials into products and services are described. The authors explain the main key success factors or drivers for success of each tool, technique or hybrid combination approach applied to solve manufacturing problems. 

1.      Part I. Concepts and general overview

a.       Introduction

b.      The overseas production system phenomenon

c.       Globalization and maquiladoras industries

d.      Alien manufacturing philosophies, tools and techniques adopted in Latin America. 

 

2.      Part II. Technique, tools and methodologies applied in manufacturing process

a.       Adoption process for techniques, tools and production process philosophies.

b.      Cases of studies from techniques, tools and production process philosophies

 

3.      Part III. Information and communication technologies (ICT) in production process

a.       ICT implementation in production process

b.      ICT implementation pitfalls

c.       ICT in manufacturing production control

d.      Real-time and collaborative decision making in manufacturing process

 

4.      Advanced manufacturing technologies (AMT) in production process

a.       AMT implementation in production process

b.      AMT evaluation and selection

c.       AMT implementation pitfalls

 

5.      Part IV.  New business models in manufacturing process

a.       Supply chain integration as competitive advantage

b.      Industry 4.0

c.       Forecasting

d.      Advanced manufacturing technologies in production process

e.       Metrics and parameters for productivity measure.  

 

6.      Human factors in manufacturing process

a.       Ergonomics in manufacturing process

b.      Macroergonomics in manufacturing process

c.       Industrial security

d.      Occupational health

e.       Leadership in manufacturing

f.       Education and training for manufacturing 

Jorge Luis García Alcaraz is a full-time researcher of the Department of Industrial Engineering at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. His main research areas are multicriteria decision making process and techniques applied to lean manufacturing, production process and supply chain modeling. He is founding member of the Mexican Society of Operation Research and active member in the Mexican Academy of Industrial Engineering. Mario Gustavo Chong Chong is a Professor and an Associate of the School of Business Engineering at Universidad del Pacífico, Peru. He is the Director of the Peruvian Association of Professionals in Logistics (APPROLOG). He is the coordinator of special projects, corporate and international program development director, academic director of the Master’s programs in Business Administration (MBA), Global Business, Agribusiness, and Food and Supply Chain Management at Universidad del Pacífico.