Book Description:

The first industrial revolution served to mechanize the manufacturing process and liberate human beings from labor. Today's workers are performing two types of activities. One is production control such as raw material feeding, transporting intermediate products, or setting up the machine. The second type is related to quality control involving diagnosis and control of the process and inspection of products.

Today, we are in the midst of the second industrial revolution involving the rationalization of process management operation and process mechanization. In order to rationalize process management operations and automation, it is vital to establish the theoretical and economic underpinnings of process management. This book illustrates the basic formula and the application for routine management by line workers. The uniqueness is that the theory is based on system design and economic calculations.