Knox electronics, face price competition from foreign and domestic sources, is trying to fix the current standards of work. New standards are currently obtained using predefined elementary data. Workers complain that the new standards will be too demanding and too "hard" to maintain their incentive income. Conflict of interest of industrial engineering and master caused a crisis for the company. The student has to deal with the desire of management to cut costs, the purpose of the master to increase the input, the goal of working to maintain the incentive earnings, and the desire to engineer to meet cost reduction goals. "Hide
by Robert D. Landel, Amit Mukherjee 3 pages. Publication Date: Mar 08, 2001. Prod. #: UV3282-PDF-ENG
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