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Part I: The production framework -- The production framework -- Part II Environmental analysis -- The production audit -- Major environmental influences -- Part III: Production resource planning and control systems -- The internal environment -- Information systems -- Data for production systems and data bases -- Production objectives and planning -- Costing production -- Production control -- Stock control in a manufacturing organisation -- Use of computers in production systems -- Part IV: Work organisation -- Work organisation -- Traditional organisations -- Conflict and its possible containment -- Industrial democracy -- Job study and design -- Group job design -- Recruitment, training and manpower planning -- Organisational development and the management of change -- Part V: Motivation and payment systems -- Motivation -- Work measurement -- Production studies -- Traditional wage payment systems -- Wage policies and associated negotiations -- Second generation incentives and wage payment systems -- Part VI: Production resources -- Production resources and resource usage -- Materials productivity -- Labour productivity -- Capital resources management -- Plant layout -- Materials handling -- Quality control -- Storekeeping -- Maintenance -- Tooling and tooling control -- Part VII: Performance improvement -- The approach to performance improvement -- Key techniques.