Enhancing Production: A Research and Case Based Approach, 1/e

"The book most successfully tackles the versatile area of production engineering, system engineering, software engineering and integrated product and process development. Statistical product control for software empirical analysis of massive maintenance process, modern statistical control and improvements, the ways and means to improve performance, new patterns of management, the human side of enterprise, trouble shooting and solutions of occurring problems in production processes and the most analytical and strategic way of product development have been expressed in most pragmatic way on the basis of own experiences. The methods and ways to reduce the product cost and to make the production with high quality standards, based on own experiences have been depicted in a way that everyone can learn from that."
— Dr Ashok K Chauhan, Founder President, Ritnand Balved Education Foundation (RBEF).
This book is an outcome of a deep dive taken by the authors into the Indian plastic industry, to explore and find the levers for enhancing industrial production. A real-life case on an Indian enterprise (Kunstocom India Ltd.) has been taken as a case on which the study was based. Statistical Process Control, Organizational Culture, and Entrepreneurship and Innovation are the main pillars of the book. The book looks at almost all important aspects/variables of enhancing production, namely, quality-price-ratio, value of the product, customer satisfaction, getting into the root of every aspects of production, employee engagement, and so on. Various well-known theories in the area of production/operations have been discussed in various contextual settings.
This book will be an immensely useful resource for industry professionals, especially those who manage production and who are in constant pursuit of improving their processes and outcomes. Although the book is anchored on the Indian plastic industry, the subject matter is universally applicable, in any industrial production setting. Students of production and industrial engineering and management will find the book motivational and horizon-broadening.

• The book is majorly anchored on the Indian Plastics Industry, with a scope of universal application to any industrial production/setting.
  
• Contains a detailed real-life case on an Indian enterprise (Kunstocom India Ltd.).
  
• Statistical Process Control, Organizational Culture, and Entrepreneurship and Innovation form the important parts of this book.
  
• Well-known theories in the area of production/operations have been discussed in various contextual settings.
  

1. Introduction
2. Approaches to Production: An Assessment
3. Research Design for Model Framework
4. Impact of Statistical Process Control
5. Impact of Organizational Culture
6. Entrepreneurship and Innovation
7. Manufacturing to Success through Continuous Learning: The Kunstocom Case Study Appendix Bibliography

Abhinav Chauhan :- Dr. Abhinav Chauhan is Director & C.E.O. of Kunstocom (India) Ltd., where he has worked tirelessly towards bringing changes in the production facility. Today, entrepreneurs from even other countries come to Kunstocom for Benchmarking. It is an innate passion for Dr. Chauhan to use Information Technology and cost effective techniques in manufacturing.


Ajay Rana :- Dr. Ajay Rana has a rich experience of about 15 years in Industry and Academia. He is Founder Director/Group Director/Director Professor/Mentor of more than 27 different Institutions and Innovative Programs at the Amity Group. His tenure led to an overall excellence in education, research, infrastructure and systemic development of organizations.


Sanjeev Bansal :- Dr. Sanjeev Bansal is Director of prestigious Amity Business School, a flagship Institute of AMITY group. He received his Ph.D. in the area of Applied Mathematics from Delhi. Dr. Bansal has been actively involved in teaching, research and consultancy in a distinguished career spanning 24 years. He was nominated by Amity University to attend colloquiums and interact with academicians at Wharton, New York University and Harvard. An avid researcher, Dr. Bansal has five books and more than 75 research papers published in national and international journals of repute and have guided 12 students for Ph.D. Apart from his areas of specialization, he has research interests in the areas of spirituality, management and quality of work life. Dr. Bansal serves on the academic and advisory boards of many reputed institutions and Universities and is member of number of professional bodies. As a teacher he has earned the deep respect of his students because of his ability to present complex matters in the most earnest lucid way.