Learn more about the fundamental concepts and principles underpinning Project Production Management through the following recommended reading.
Reference Publications
Fundamental Operations and Production Management
The following provide a fundamental introduction to the concepts, principles and theories of operations / production management.
Dynamic Manufacturing: Creating the Learning Organization
Robert H. Hayes, Steven C. Wheelwright, Kim B. Clark 1988
Factory Physics for Managers: How Leaders Improve Performance in a Post-Lean Six Sigma World
Edward S. Pound, Jeffrey H. Bell, Mark L. Spearman 2014
Factory Physics, 3rd Edition
Wallace J. Hopp, Mark L. Spearman 2011
Handbook of Industrial Engineering Equations, Formulas, and Calculations
Adedeji B. Badiru, Olufemi A. Omitaomu 2010
Models and Managers: The Concept of a Decision Calculus
John D. C. Little, Sloan School of Management MIT 2012
Production/Operations Management: Concepts and Situations
Robert W Schmenner 1987
Maynard's Industrial Engineering Handbook, 5th Edition
Kjell Zandin, Harold Maynard 2001
Supply Chain Science, 1st Edition
Supply Chain Science 2011
Historical Aspects of Operations and Production Management
These titles provide a comprehensive history of modern day production management development and thinking.
A History of Planning and Production Control 1750 to 2000
Bernard C. Hilton 2005
A Study of the Toyota Production System: From an Industrial Engineering Viewpoint
Shigeo Shingo, Translated by Andrew P. Dillon 1989
Arsenal of Democracy: The Story of American War Production
Donald M. Nelson 1946
Principles of Mass and Flow Production
Frank G. Woollard 2009
Productivity in the United States: Trends and Cycles
John W. Kendrick 1980
Scientific Management: 1 (Early Sociology of Management & Organizations)
Frederick Winslow Taylor 2004
Secrets of Industry
Lewis C. Ord 1945
Shop Management
Frederick Winslow Taylor 2008
The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production – Toyota's Secret Weapon in the Global Car Wars That Is Now Revolutionizing World Industry
James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, Daniel Roos 2007
The Motor Industry
G. Maxcy, A. Silberston 1959
The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency
Robert Kanigel 1997
Today and Tomorrow: Commemorative Edition of Ford's 1926 Classic
Henry Ford 1988
Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production
Taiichi Ohno 1988
Product Development / Engineering
Managing New Product and Process Development: Text and Cases
Steven C. Wheelwright, Kim B. Clark 1992
Product Design and Development, 5th Edition
Karl T. Ulrich, Steven D. Eppinger 2011
Project Management (Foundational)
It is important to understand the core elements upon which field of project management has been developed. The following reading will provide this history.
Application of a Technique for Research and Development Program Evaluation
D.G. Malcom, J.H. Roseboom, C.E. Clark and W. Fazar 1959
Critical-Path Planning and Scheduling
James E. Kelley, Jr and Morgan R. Walker 1959
Critical Path Method: Its Fundamentals
Arthur G. Mercier and Roy S. Nunnally 1965
Modern Management Applied to Construction
Daniel J. Hauer 2011
Notes on Linear Programming: Part XXXV – Discrete-Variable Extremum Problems
George Bernard Dantzig 1956
Other
Japanese Management Accounting: A World Class Approach to Profit Management
Yasuhiro Monden, Michiharu Sakura 1990
Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting
H. Thomas Johnson, Robert S. Kaplan 1991
A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, 4th Edition
Project Management Institute 2009