国际著名学者Steven Nahmias所著《生产与运作分析》一书，以其翔实、精深的内容和严谨的体系著称，被很多国际著名的大学工业工程科系选为教材。该书内容涵盖了生产与运作系统和过程的各个方面，包括战略与竞争、预测、综合计划、对已知需求与不确定需求的库存控制、供应链管理、推动式与牵引式生产控制系统、作业调度、项目管理、质量保证、可靠性与维护等。书中论述条理清晰，易于被学生接受；拥有大量实际案例，特别是提供了一系列精彩的精简应用（Snapshot Application）实例，为学生提供学以致用的模板。书中例题与习题不仅数量众多，而且由浅入深，引导学生举一反三，对巩固知识、培养能力颇有裨益。

Steven Nahmias编著的《生产与运行分析》可以作为工业工程专业本科生“生产运作管理”或“生产计划与控制”课程的教材，亦可作为“生产系统”、“设施规划”、“项目管理”、“质量管理”等课程的参考书。

Chapter 1  Strategy and Competition

 Appendix 1-A Present Worth Calculations

Chapter 2  Forecasting

APPendix 2-A Forecast Errors for Moving Averages and Exponential Smoothing

APPendix 2-B Derivation of the Equations for the Slope and Intercept for Regression Analysis

 Appendix 2-C Glossary of Notation for Chapter 2

Chapter 3  Aggregate Planning

 Appendix 3-A Glossary of Notation for Chapter 3

Supplement 1 Linear Programming

Chapter 4  Inventory Control Subject to Known Demand

 Appendix 4-A Mathematical Derivations for Multiproduct Con-strained EOQ Systems

 Appendix 4-B Glossary of Notation for Chapter 4

Chapter 5  Inventory Control Subject to Uncertain Demand

 Appendix 5-A Notational Conventions

and Probability Review

 Appendix 5-B Additional Results and Extensions for the

Newsboy Model

 Appendix 5-C Derivation of the Optimal (Q. R) Policy

 Appendix 5-D Probability Distributions for Inventory

Management

 Appendix 5-E Glossary of Notation for Chapter 5

Chapter 6  Supply Chain Management

Chapter 7  Push and Pull Production Control Systems: MRP and JIT

 Appendix 7-A Optimal Lot Sizing for Time-Varying Demand

 Appendix 7-B Glossary of Notation for Chapter 7

Chapter 8  Operations Scheduling

Supplement 2 Queuing Theory

Chapter 9  Project Scheduling

APPendix 9-A Glossary of Notation for Chapter 9

Chapter 10  Facilities Layout and Location

 Appendix l0-A Finding Centroids

 Appendix lOB Computing Contour Lines

Chapter 11  Quality and Assurance

 Appendix 11-A Approximating Distributions

 Appendix 11-B Glossary of Notation for Chapter 11 on Quality and

Assurance

Chapter 12  Reliability and Maintainability

 Appendix 12-A Glossary of Notation on Reliability and

Maintainability

 Appendix: Tables

Index