This book covers a wide range of management issues concerning planning control and continuous
improvement. It especially focuses on the management of the enterprise and production processes
in the era of globalization discussing the process of transferring production to developing
countries covering issues in technological culture and reporting on quality control issues
and on problems related to continuous process improvement. Modern strategies such as Six Sigma
and lean manufacturing are also discussed. Another topic concerns the management of the
education sphere and how to develop the latter to prepare employees to the changes brought by
the technical development. Based on papers presented at the 6th International
Scientific-Technical Conference MANUFACTURING 2019 held in Poznan Poland on May 19-22 2019
this book bridges issues in quality engineering with concepts of ergonomics and sociology thus
offering a timely practice-oriented guide to both the engineers and managers of the future.
