This book reports the best practices that companies established in Latin America are implementing in their manufacturing processes in order to generate high quality products and stay in the market. It lists the technologies, production and administrative philosophies that are being implemented, presenting a collection of successful cases of studies from Latin America. The book describes how the tools and techniques are being integrated, modified and combined to create new technical resources for assisting the decision making process for better economic performance in manufacturing companies. The efforts deployed for assisting the transformation of raw materials into products and services are described. The authors explain the main key success factors or drivers for success of each tool, technique or hybrid combination approach applied to solve manufacturing problems. From the Back Cover This book reports the best practices that companies established in Latin America are implementing in their manufacturing processes in order to generate high quality products and stay in the market. It lists the technologies, production and administrative philosophies that are being implemented, presenting a collection of successful cases of studies from Latin America. The book describes how the tools and techniques are being integrated, modified and combined to create new technical resources for assisting the decision making process for better economic performance in manufacturing companies. The efforts deployed for assisting the transformation of raw materials into products and services are described. The authors explain the main key success factors or drivers for success of each tool, technique or hybrid combination approach applied to solve manufacturing problems. About the Author Jorge Luis García Alcaraz is a full-time researcher of the Department of Industrial Engineering at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. His main research areas are multicriteria decision making process and techniques applied to lean manufacturing, production process and supply chain modeling. He is founding member of the Mexican Society of Operation Research and active member in the Mexican Academy of Industrial Engineering. Leonardo Rivera Cadavid works at the Universidad del Valle, in Cali, Colombia, in the School of Industrial Engineering. His research interests include applied operations research, manufacturing and logistics systems, new geometries for distribution centers, lean manufacturing and programming tools for mathematical modeling and general programming in Industrial Engineering. Rosa G. González-Ramírez is a full-time professor and researcher of Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the Universidad de Los Andes in Chile.Her research lines consider intermodal transport of cargo, port logistics and optimization of container terminals operations; port community systems and information technologies for electronic data interchange, supply chain management, and optimization. George Leal Jamil is an independent researcher, consultant and a Professor for top-level academic and business-oriented (associations) institutions in Brazil, Portugal and US. He is an experienced consultant in themes such as strategic value positioning, strategic planning, marketing research, customer-oriented funding, customer relationship knowledge, project and process management and information technology strategic management. He works with startups incubators, accelerators and individual projects in Brazil since 2014. Mario Gustavo Chong Chong is a Professor and an Associate of the School of Business Engineering at Universidad del Pacífico, Peru. He is the Director of the Peruvian Association of Professionals in Logistics (APPROLOG). He is the coordinator of special projects, corporate and international program development director, academic director of the Master’s programs in Business
