Includes bibliographical references and index

part I. General introduction -- part II. Fundamentals of industrial engineering -- part III. Fundamentals of systems engineering -- part IV. Manufacturing, production systems, and ergonomics -- part V. Human factors and ergonomics -- part VI. Economic and financial analysis -- part VII. Management, information engineering, and decision making -- part VIII. Safety, reliability, and quality -- part IX. Operations research, queuing, logistics, and scheduling

"A new edition of the bestselling industrial and systems engineering text, this book provides students, researchers, and practitioners with easy access to a wide range of industrial engineering tools and techniques in a concise format. It expands the breadth and depth of coverage, emphasizing new systems engineering tools, techniques, and models. New coverage includes control charts, engineering economy, health operational efficiency, healthcare systems, human systems integration, lean systems, logistics transportation, manufacturing systems, material handling systems, process view of work, queuing systems, reliability systems and tools, and six sigma techniques"-- Provided by publisher

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