Strategic Manufacturing Management

About the Book

The economic interdependence among developing and established industrialized nations, and the disintegration of barriers to the flow of capital, information and technology across national borders facilitates international market integration and globalization. These market conditions force manufacturing companies to seriously consider the strategies they need to implement if they are to develop competitive advantages. Very often the strategies that are executed will result in a sustained competitive advantage through which a firm becomes leaner, more flexible, and more focused on providing cost-effective goods and services to sophisticated customers. This book provides manufacturing business strategies to assist companies to meet those requirements.

About the Author

Thomas J. Sowell, Director of Sowell Manufacturing Consulting, began his career in 1972. At that time he was enrolled in a government sponsored apprenticeship program while employed in several manufacturing companies. Today, he provides engineering and management consulting services to some of the most prestigious Fortune 200 manufacturing companies including Tyco International, Lucent Technologies, General Electric, Kendall Healthcare, Hubbell, Inc., Gillette Company, Pall Corporation, AMP Electronics, Simplex, and several family-owned businesses. He is a member of the Chief Executive Officers’ Club, the Institute of Management Consultants and the Institute of Industrial Engineers. . He resides in a rural New England town located nearby Boston, Massachusetts.