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John O. McClain |
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John O. McClain is The Emerson Electric Company Professor
of Manufacturing Management at the He has taught courses in production and operations management, quality management, quantitative methods, and health systems management. He has taught in executive education programs for Cornell and for various companies including IBM, Hyundai and AT&T. Coauthor of the textbook Operations Management: Production of Goods and Services, he has also worked with the developers of the XCELL+ Factory Modeling System, and is an author of the user's manual and a casebook of applications. Professor McClain has received a number of awards, including fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation and the Ford Foundation. He was chosen as a Mobil Scholar in 1990 and a Whitcomb Fellow in 1995. His research has been in both manufacturing and health systems. Topics have included production control (including Just-in-time), forecasting systems, supply systems, quality improvement and facility capacity. He is an author of six books and published numerous articles in fourteen different refereed journals. He has presented his research at conferences in several countries, and is a member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences and the American Production and Inventory Control Society. Professor McClain has consulted for a variety of business such as New York
State Electric and Gas Company, IBM System Products Division, the Institute
for Business Technology, Keith Clark, Inc., P.T. Sango Ceramics ( |
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