Reinventing the Factory Productivity Breakthroughs in Manufacturing Today Author: Roy L. Harmon Review: Henry Leitnaker In fulfilling the requirements to complete a book review for the class Manufacturing Resource Planning, I have chose to review the book “Reinventing the Factory”. The book covers and implements theories of productivity improvements and breakthroughs. The authors, Harmon and Peterson, take the book beyond theory and use hundreds of examples of real-life productivity improvements. A list of these impressive …showed first 75 words of 1660 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1660 total…Through implementing a new plant wide plan, creating sub plants, and increasing efficiency at all work stations, productivity will increase as well as profit. A better factory can’t be built by just reading this book. However, if one pays special particular attention to the small aspects of their company, small changes and careful continuous planning can result in the superior factory not only in the United States, but internationally. “Let us begin.” (Harmon, p.272)