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The Focused Factory |  | Author: C. Wickham Skinner
Publisher: Harvard Business Review
Category: Book
Buy New: $6.50
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1686501
Format: Download: PDF
Media: Digital
Pages: 9
Publication Date: May 1, 1974
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Product Description
U.S. business considers the "productivity crisis" a competition problem. One solution to the problem is the use of the "focused" factory system to increase productivity. This type of plant concentrates on performing a couple of manufacturing tasks extremely well. Overhead costs are lower and quality higher than in the typical factory. Current high factory costs are a result of "professionalism" in the plant and product proliferation. A manufacturing focus can be achieved through explicitly outlining corporate strategy, translating this strategy into manufacturing functions, examining the product system carefully, and reorganizing the system to produce a "congruent" focus.
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Wickham Skinner and The Origins of Manufacturing Strategy May 18, 2003
Quarterman Lee (Kansas City, MO United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This seminal article provides much of the basis for Manufacturing Strategy. Most subsequent work in this field is based upon it and Skinner's 1978 book "Manufacturing In The Corporate Strategy." Readable and insightful, this is must reading for managers and strategists, especially those in multi-plant companies.
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