Opinion:Connecting management to manufacturing

摘要

Managing a manufacturing organization can be both thrilling and frustrating.Manufacturers must make decisions daily using whatever information is most readily available.For example,a CEO constantly challenged his senior managers to manufacture products with reduced staff and facilitation resources.This CEO wanted the lowest manufacturing costs possible to help increase profits.His challenge forced front-line managers to think "outside the box," to find novel methods of achieving these goals.Instead of hiring full-time employees,the managers found a staffing organi-