Assembly Line Planning and Control

Assembly Line Planning and Control
Author: Nick T. Thomopoulos
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2013-09-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319013998

​Assembly Line Planning and Control describes the basic fundamentals of assembly lines for single model lines, mixed model make-to-stock lines, mixed model make-to-order lines and for one-station assembly. The book shows how to select the quantity of units to schedule for a shift duration, compute the number of operators needed on a line, set the conveyor speed, coordinate the main line with sub-assembly lines, assign the work elements to the operators on the line, sequence the models down the line, sequence the jobs down the line, calculate the part and component requirements for a line and for each station, determine the replenish needs of the parts and components from the suppliers, compute the similarity between the models being produced and show applications, use learning curves to estimate time and costs of assembly, and measure the efficiency of the line. The material is timeless and the book will never become obsolete. The author presents solutions with easy-to-understand numerical examples that can be applied to real-life applications.​

Production Planning and Control

Production Planning and Control
Author: D.R. Kiran
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Total Pages: 581
Release: 2019-06-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0128189371

Production Planning and Control draws on practitioner experiences on the shop floor, covering everything a manufacturing or industrial engineer needs to know on the topic. It provides basic knowledge on production functions that are essential for the effective use of PP&C techniques and tools. It is written in an approachable style, thus making it ideal for readers with limited knowledge of production planning. Comprehensive coverage includes quality management, lean management, factory planning, and how they relate to PP&C. End of chapter questions help readers ensure they have grasped the most important concepts. With its focus on actionable knowledge and broad coverage of essential reference material, this is the ideal PP&C resource to accompany work, research or study. - Uses practical examples from the industry to clearly illustrate the concepts presented - Provides a basic overview of statistics to accompany the introduction to forecasting - Covers the relevance of PP&C to key emerging themes in manufacturing technology, including the Industrial Internet of Things and Industry 4

Assembly Line Design

Assembly Line Design
Author: Brahim Rekiek
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2006-04-21
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1846281148

Efficient assembly line design is a problem of considerable industrial importance. Assembly Line Design will be bought by technical personnel working in design, planning and production departments in industry as well as managers in industry who want to learn more about concurrent engineering. This book will also be purchased by researchers and postgraduate students in mechanical, manufacturing or micro-engineering.

MANUFACTURING PLANNING AND CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

MANUFACTURING PLANNING AND CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Author: Thomas E. Vollmann
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 623
Release: 2004-08-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0071817247

Manufacturing Planning and Control Systems for Supply Chain Management is both the classic field handbook for manufacturing professionals in virtually any industry and the standard preparatory text for APICS certification courses. This essential reference has been totally revised and updated to give professionals the knowledge they need.

Make-to-Order Assembly Management

Make-to-Order Assembly Management
Author: Rainer Kolisch
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2000-12-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9783540410980

Purchasing .Fabrication Assembly Distribution Figure 1.1: Multi-Level Manufacturing System for Make-to-Order Products specific resources of a type, i.e., a certain machine or a single worker, the determination of the sequence operations are processed on a ma chine, and the assignment of start and finish times to operations. We will modify this framework to be specifically suited for multi level make-to-order manufacturing systems. We assume that the facil ity design issue is settled, i.e., the location and the layout of the facility as well as the capacity ofthe three main resource types of the company are determined. These resource types are the engineering department, the fabrication department, and the assembly department. The engineering department is concerned with the construction of new products as well as the modification and customization of ex isting products. This entails the generation of engineering documents such as blue prints for manufacturing. The capacity of the engineering department is determined by the the count and qualification of engi neers and by the availability of construction devices such as computer aided design (CAD) systems etc.

Kaizen Assembly

Kaizen Assembly
Author: Chris A. Ortiz
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2006-06-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1420006606

It is easy to learn the philosophy and the concepts of kaizen. It is quite another challenge to translate the philosophy into action. While most books expound on the underlying principles and theory, Kaizen Assembly: Designing, Constructing, and Managing a Lean Assembly Line takes you step-by-step through an actual kaizen event. This approach demon

Flow Production with Throughput Time Management

Flow Production with Throughput Time Management
Author: Andre Kürzel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2016-08-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9781519010896

This book is meant to illustrate the advantages of flow production, bottleneck control and the minimization of buffers. These are accompanied by practical examples of how some internationally renowned organizations have approached and solved particular production problems.This book was "Amazon Bestseller No. 1" in Germany in the category "Procurement, Production & Logistics". English Translation: Kerstin RossContents* What should we learn from Toyota? * The traditional point of view * What does it take to be a good material requirements planner? * The supermarket checkout - a great place to gain insights * A jam always occurs at the narrowest point* The bottleneck - there can only be one* Pulling is better than pushing* Flow production - quite simpleAndre has published a number of articles and books over the years.Six of his books were "Amazon Best Sellers No 1" in their relevant categories in Germany.His eBook "Selbstmanagement" (self-management) achieved "New Release No 1" in the category "Leadership & Human Resource Management", while two of his other eBooks were simultaneously at number 1 and number 3 in the category "Procurement, Production and Insights".Mike Rother, world-renowned author of books on "Kata", "The Toyota Production System" and "Value Stream Mapping", personally congratulated Andre on his 2015 publication of "Produktionssystem, Fertigungssteuerung, Toyota und Kata", due to be released in English in 2016.

Production Planning and Control

Production Planning and Control
Author: William Bolton
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Total Pages: 206
Release: 1994
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This book aims to give the reader an appreciation and understanding of: 1. the ways in which manufacturing companies are organised, 2. the nature and diversity of engineering products, 3. the organisation of production, 4. the planning and control of production.

Computer-aided Assembly Planning

Computer-aided Assembly Planning
Author: Alain Delchambre
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9401123225

The assembly sector is one of the least automated in the manufacturing industry. Automation is essential if industrial companies are to be competitive in the future. In assembly, an integrated and flexible approach is needed because 75% of the applications are produced in small and medium batches. The methodologies developed in this book deal with the integration of the assembly process from the initial design of the product to its production. In such an integrated system, assembly planning is one of the most important features. A well-chosen assembly plan will reduce both the number of tool changes and the fixtures within the assembly cell. It will prevent the handling of unstable subassemblies, simplify the design of the robot grippers and reduce production costs. An automatic generator of assembly sequences can be an efficient aid to the designer. Whenever he or she modifies features of the product, the influence of these modifications can immediately be checked on the sequences. For small batch production, the automatic generation of assembly sequences is faster, more reliable and more cost-effective than manual generation. By using this latter method interesting sequences could be missed because of the combinatorial explosion of solutions. The main subjects treated in this book are as follows. 1. Presentation and classification of existing systems of automatic generation of assembly sequences. Automatic assembly planning is, indeed, a very recent research area and, in my experience, no systematic study has been carried out up to now.

Assembly Line Design

Assembly Line Design
Author: We-Min Chow
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2020-12-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000147614

This book attempts to treat line design and its related subjects in a cohesive manner, with an emphasis on design applications. It discusses general guidelines for setting up assumptions and determining line performance parameters, based on empirical data from literature reports.