Manufacturing information systems: implementation planning Robert A. Gessner

"A Wiley-Interscience publication."

You want to install a computerized information system to improve your company's productivity and meet its long-term goals. And you want to make sure that you've ironed out every problem, justified every expense, and prepared for every contingency before the system is in place. Manufacturing Information Systems can help. Written by one of the country's foremost authorities on systems design and installation, this practical, step-by-step guide offers you proven techinques and procedures for the structuring and installation of an effective, cost-justified system that'll help boost productivity for years to come. These unusually detailed procedures can be immediately applied to manufacturing industries and to most other industries as well. Complete with more than 80 illustrations and a wealth of examples culled from the experience of hundreds of companies, Manufacturing Information Systems covers such key steps as the initial study of conditions...the identification of major problems, both human and technical...the design of a system geared to solving problems...the implementation of a system to handle those specific problems...and methods of cost analysis to justify the implementation effort