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Facilities Planning
Facilities Planning

Hardcover
Edition: 3
Author: James Tompkins
Publisher: Wiley
Release Date: 2002-11-11
ISBN-10: 0471413895
ISBN-13: 9780471413899
List Price: $115.43
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This revision incorporates all the significant advances that have occurred in the past decade; including advances in facilities planning, material handling, and computing technologies, as well as engineering and management philosophies. It focuses on the determination of the requirements for people, equipment, space, and material in the facility. It presents concepts and techniques to facilitate the generation of alternative facilities plans and continues to focus on generating alternative facilities plans. It also presents a variety of quantitative approaches that can be used to model specific aspects of facilities planning problems and discusses the treatment of facilities planning.

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Worst Book Ever!
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This textbook is horrible. I am an engineering student and this is the most confusing book I have ever seen. Charts are randomly placed in paragraphs, with no mention of them in the writing. Equations are quoted, also with no explanation. It's like someone ripped up a bunch of good textbooks and this happen to land in a pile. This should not be used in classes, or by anyone.

Very poorly written
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I used this book for a graduate-level engineering course. This book is one of the worst textbooks I have seen.
Is is evident that several people wrote this textbook because the style of writing will change between sections from informal to formal. Some of the sections are better written than others. In the poorly written sections, it can be very hard to follow what they are trying to say. Overall, the writing is very disjointed and care should have been taken to properly introduce topics and create more of a flow to the text.
Also, there are numerous spelling errors and incomplete sentences in the text. For a third edition, one would expect those errors to be corrected; they are very obvious.
The examples also contain errors. Again, the errors are very obvious such as 11-2=7.
I would not recommend this textbook. At first glance, it appears to be a very comprehensive book but, actually it is very poorly written and does not explain the material well.

This is the worst text book I've ever had to read.
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I've been in college for many years now, as I'm working on my second degree now, and this is absolutely the worst book I've ever bought.

There is at least one typographical error on each page.

There are gross grammatical errors, incomplete sentences, whole paragraphs that say absolutely nothing, and even paragraphs repeated (almost one after another).

I would like to think that some of the examples are incorrect on purpose to provoke thought and a more thorough understanding on part of the student, but I doubt that is the case.

The graphs and diagrams are dry and monotonous, and for the most part meaningless in enhancing or visualizing the subject matter.

Engineering texts aren't supposed to be entertainment; I understand that Facilities Planning isn't exactly the subject matter of J.R.Tolkien. Taking that fact into consideration, this book is still horribly written. I don't expect the authors to write a perfect text, but the quality of writing in this book is unacceptably low.

One gets the impression that the authors were doing their best to stretch out the material as much as they could. In my honest opinion, I believe this subject matter could be covered just as thoroughly in half as many words.

If you're a teacher, do the higher education system a favor and sit down and read any three chapters of this book before you make it your class's text.

If you're a student required to study this book, my sincerest sympathies go out to you.


One of comprehensive facilities design book of this decade
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Technology will change but fundamental will remain. If you're looking for a fundamental facilities design book, you won't be disappointed with this textbook. It's one of the major reference book for IE students and professional.

























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