This book covers the emerging and important topics related to production and operations management in a systematic way.

It covers not only the essentials of planning, designing, managing and controlling of manufacturing operations, but also a number of relevant topics such as total preventive maintenance, environmental issues in production system, advanced production system, total productivity management and work system design, which are not covered in many books.

The book is a useful resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of MBA programmed, as well as B.Tech and M.Tech programmes of production and industrial engineering.

The main features of the book are as follows:

• Theories and concepts based on day-to-day practical applications in the industry.

• Large number of solved examples to explain the theoretical concepts.

• Case study at the end of each chapter to illustrate the theory.

• Brings out the link between linear programming and its applications.