Cost management in plastics processing : strategies, targets, techniques and tools / Robin Kent.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kent, Robin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plastics industry and trade--Environmental aspects.

Plastics industry and trade.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 pages)

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands : Elsevier : William Andrew Applied Science Publishers, 2018.

Summary:

Cost Management in Plastics Processing: Strategies, Targets, Techniques, and Tools, Fourth Edition, makes readers think about current practices and how to go forward with effective cost management.

Contents:

Front Cover

Cost Management in Plastics Processing: Strategies, Targets, Techniques and Tools

Copyright

Contents

Preface to the 4th Edition

Chapter 1 Cost management

1.1 Where we are going

1.2 How valuable is this?

1.3 What do you want to be?

1.4 Structured management

1.5 Structured management - where are you now?

1.6 Financial and management accounting

1.7 Cost structures

1.8 Activity-based costing

1.9 Activity-based management

1.10 Financial structure - where are you now?

1.11 Product costing - 1

1.12 Product costing - 2

1.13 Old ideas and new ideas

1.14 Investment for cost management

1.15 Successful cost management projects

1.16 Cost management projects - where are you now?

1.17 The cost management process

1.18 The cost management process - where are you now?

1.19 World-class principles

1.20 World-class principles - where are you now?

Key tips

Chapter 2 Design and development

2.1 Fundamentals

2.2 Competitors and markets in design

2.3 Selecting the right strategy

2.4 Competitors and markets in design - where are you now?

2.5 Total product planning

2.6 Total product planning - where are you now?

2.7 PENTAMODE

2.8 The APQP design process

2.9 The design and development process

2.10 Design teams and processes - where are you now?

2.11 The product design specification

2.12 TRIZ

2.13 Design for manufacture

2.14 Design for assembly

2.15 Value analysis and engineering

2.16 Design tools - where are you now?

2.17 Prototyping

2.18 Time to market

2.19 Sustainable design - resource efficiency

2.20 Sustainable design - manufacture

2.21 Sustainable design - use

2.22 Sustainable design - end-of-life

2.23 Sustainable design - raw materials

2.24 Sustainable design - distribution.

2.25 Sustainable design - where are you now?

2.26 Controlling raw materials - RoHS and REACH

2.27 Controlling end-of-life - WEEE and ELV

Chapter 3 Materials

3.1 Reducing the raw materials cost

3.2 Purchasing

3.3 Supplier partnerships - where are you now?

3.4 Purchasing - where are you now?

3.5 Materials content cost management

3.6 Materials use cost management

3.7 Materials content and use management - where are you now?

3.8 Inventory management

3.9 Inventory management - where are you now?

Chapter 4 People and systems

4.1 Systems

4.2 Systems - where are you now?

4.3 People - recruiting the right people

4.4 People - training and development

4.5 People - upward management

4.6 People - projects

4.7 People - where are you now?

4.8 Systems - quality, environmental, energy and health and safety

4.9 Quality management systems - the rationale of a QMS

4.10 Quality management systems - the process approach

4.11 Quality management systems - manufacturing processes

4.12 Quality management systems - manufacturing process details

4.13 Quality management systems - an overview of ISO 9001

4.14 Quality management systems - where are you now?

4.15 Environmental management systems

4.16 Environmental management systems - starting out

4.17 Environmental management systems - managing interactions

4.18 Environmental management systems - an overview of ISO 14001

4.19 Environmental management systems - where are you now?

4.20 Energy management systems - ISO 50001

4.21 Energy management systems - the detail

4.22 Health and safety management systems

4.23 Health and safety management systems - ISO 45001

4.24 Health and safety management systems - where are you now?

4.25 Risk assessment - introduction

4.26 Risk assessment - quality.

4.27 Risk assessment - environmental

4.28 Risk assessment - health and safety

4.29 Risk assessment - where are you now?

4.30 Business continuity planning

Chapter 5 Production

5.1 The manufacturing strategy

5.2 Production control systems

5.3 MRP/MRPII/ERP systems

5.4 JIT systems

5.5 OPT systems

5.6 Production control systems - where are you now?

5.7 Process design and development

5.8 Product and process validation

5.9 Waste and non-value activities

5.10 Work cells

5.11 Machine size

5.12 Tool acceptance and initial machine setting

5.13 Machine operation

5.14 Machine maintenance

5.15 Machine utilisation

5.16 Economic batch quantity

5.17 Set-up time

5.18 Scheduling and batching

5.19 Factory layout

5.20 Manufacturing systems - where are you now?

5.21 Supplier development and integration

5.22 Quality management

5.23 Quality costs/quality savings?

5.24 Performance measurement

5.25 Performance measurement - where are you now?

5.26 Culture change and training

5.27 Mass customisation and additive manufacturing

Chapter 6 Overheads

6.1 Fixed and variable costs

6.2 Controllable and non-controllable overheads

6.3 Energy - a new critical cost

6.4 Energy - the vital questions

6.5 Energy - more vital questions

6.6 Energy - internal site benchmarking

6.7 Energy - performance assessment and forecasting

6.8 Energy - external benchmarking by site

6.9 Energy - external benchmarking by machine

6.10 Energy - integrating energy into the accounts

6.11 Energy - measuring energy costs

6.12 Energy - the site energy survey

6.13 Energy - injection moulding

6.14 Energy - all-electric injection moulding machines

6.15 Energy - extrusion

6.16 Energy - extrusion blow moulding

6.17 Energy - motors.

6.18 Energy - compressed air

6.19 Energy - cooling water

6.20 Energy - drying

6.21 Energy - buildings

6.22 Energy - carbon footprinting

6.23 Energy: general management - where are you now?

6.24 Energy: financial management - where are you now?

6.25 Energy: technical management - where are you now?

6.26 Energy: awareness and information - where are you now?

6.27 Waste - waste minimisation

6.28 Waste - the site waste survey

6.29 Waste - assessing performance

6.30 Waste - tools for waste minimisation

6.31 Waste - managing waste minimisation

6.32 Waste minimisation - where are you now?

Chapter 7 Data, information and the smart factory

7.1 The smart factory

7.2 Integrating the company

7.3 Connecting the machines

7.4 Handling the data

7.5 Analytics and the cloud

7.6 Securing the company

7.7 Talking to the machines

7.8 The new skills and 'smart people'

7.9 Data recovery planning

7.10 Data and information - where are you now?

Chapter 8 Tools for cost management

8.1 Cost management tools

8.2 Flow charts

8.3 Check sheets

8.4 Histograms

8.5 Statistical process control - process capability studies

8.6 Statistical process control - control charts

8.7 Scatter diagrams

8.8 Cause and effect diagrams (root cause analysis)

8.9 Pareto principle

8.10 Deviations and CUSUM

8.11 Mind mapping

8.12 Other tools

Postscript

Abbreviations and acronyms

Back Cover.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780081022726

0081022727

9780081022696

0081022697

OCLC:

1007066448