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Manufacturers are continuously searching for solutions to their seemingly never-ending inventory, delivery, cost, productivity, quality, and profit woes. Progressive Manufacturing: Managing Uncertainty While Blazing a Trail to Success provides powerful, cutting-edge, common-sense solutions to these and other perennial problems faced by most organizations. The book delineates the three keystones essential to achieving any significant degree of success  people, products or services, and processes. It presents thought-provoking ideas and methods for simplifying processes at every level.

This latest fifth edition provides a fine compendium of business statistics in this country, from key features of the 1999 revision of the GDP accounts to over a hundred data tables presenting years of annual data and monthly historical statistics. An excellent addition to any corporate research department or serious college-level business reference book collection.