Overview
Main description
Optimize Economic and Technological Requirements in Production System Designs
This pioneering work offers proven techniques, partially created and developed at The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, for determining optimal resource allocation and cost-effective production system designs for today’s any-volume manufacturing environments. Production Systems Engineering presents a unique methodology that synthesizes applicable technology with economic requirements for an integrated solution. Featuring real-world case studies, this authoritative resource establishes a new paradigm for the manufacturing world that can also be applied to other enterprise environments.
Coverage includes:
- Determining an improved manufacturing system design method
- System design basics, time allocation, resources, costs, and quality rating
- Stochastic analyses added to deterministic results
- System configuration options
- Multiple disparate products produced by one system
- World class versus mostly manual systems
- Determining allowable investment
- Simultaneous improvement in yield and cycle-time
Table of contents
List of Tables; List of Illustrations; Preface; Chapter 1. Finding a Better Method for Manufacturing System Design; Chapter 2. Results from Initial Studies; Chapter 3. Real-World Applications Lead to Enhanced Understanding; Chapter 4. Stochastic Analyses Added to Deterministic Results; Chapter 5. Initial Look at System Configurations; Chapter 6. Multiple Disparate Products Produced by One System; Chapter 7. World-Class Versus Mostly Manual Systems; Appendix A. Determining Allowable Investment; Appendix B. Economic-Technological Synthesis of Systems; Appendix C. Establishing Task Data for Assembly Systems; Appendix D. Simultaneous Improvement in Yield and Cycle-Time; Appendix E. Two Case Study Summaries; Appendix F. Advanced System Design Procedure; References; Index
Author comments
Richard E. Gustavson is president of Systems Synthesis, Inc., developer of software packages for determining assembly sequences, developing assembly process plans, establishing task/resource matrices, and synthesizing cost-effective manufacturing systems.
