The third edition of this highly successful case book has been expanded and updated to reflect the increasing reliance upon comprehensive case material in the teaching of operations management. The text begins with an introduction to analyzing operations management cases. Each of the subsequent parts deals with a key area of operations management and begins with an expanded introduction, allowing the book to serve as a stand alone text for introductory operations management courses. Features and Benefits include: Structure of the casebook reflects that of the companion text, Operations Management 3/e by Slack et al., Contains over 50 cases - This includes coverage of new areas, such as- operations strategy, interactive design, simultaneous engineering, supply chain reengineering, performance measurement, and TPM, Includes short, one and two page, cases, There is a Further Reading section in each part and every case study contains a Questions section.