UID:
almahu_9948025864002882
Umfang:
1 online resource (289 p.)
ISBN:
1-281-03491-6
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9786611034917
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0-08-051067-1
Inhalt:
Manufacturing operations are the real wealth creators within a business, accounting for the majority of management and financial assets needed to sustain the company. Make it! encapsulates the author's many years of experience gained designing manufacturing systems and supply-chains in factories across the world. It provides a proven, logical sequence of events needed to design effective modular factories capable of competing with the world's best. In their 1999 'Best-Managed' Companies Awards, 'Aviation Week and Space Technology' (Vol. 150, No. 22) quoted the author's former comp
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Front Cover; Make It!: Engineering the Manufacturing Solution; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1. Manufacturing effectiveness - the need for change; Introduction; Manufacturing system design process; Project teams for manufacturing systems design; Effective manufacturing systems; Company business plan; Setting business targets; Detailed market and product strategies; Manufacturing data; Controlling the scope of data collection; Project assessment and review; Chapter 2. Manufacturing system - module/cell identification; Manufacturing analysis; Pareto analysis
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Manufacturing strategy - example documentGood practice checklists; Module identification for cellular structures; Manufacturing module definition; Strategic make versus buy analysis; Concept specification and management review; Chapter 3. Steady state design of manufacturing modules; Characteristics of modular factories; Creating module and cell structures; Defining steady state; Investment in manufacturing technology; Japanese manufacturing techniques; Designing Japanese style manufacturing systems; Job design; Support services and indirect resources; Quality system; Personnel policies
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Support function designFacilities supporting production; Summary; Chapter 4. Dynamic design of modules and control systems; Introduction; Factors influencing dynamic design; The dynamic design process; Process failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA); Evaluating system variables; Control systems design; Maintenance systems; Tool management systems; Summary; Chapter 5. Financial justification; Financial case; Activity-based product costing; Supplier integration; Manufacturing measures of performance; Planning implementation; Investment sanctions
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Formal approval for investment and implementationSavings and returns; Summary; Chapter 6. Commissioning and continuous improvement; Module implementation/case study; Machine and process capability; Job definitions and skills requirement; Team selection; Continual improvement process; Continuous improvement route maps; Continuous improvement training; Design of experiments for problem solving; Module audits; Module information; Conclusion; References and supporting literature; Index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-7506-4569-5
Sprache:
Englisch
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