Product Description: Because of their mutually influencing interactions, information systems and modern manufacturing systems are intertwined. They have been so integrated that information systems have become an embedded and critical component of any effective manufacturing system...read more

Product Description: This book is the result of over ten (10) years of research and development in flexible robots and structures at Sandia National Laboratories. The authors de­ cided to collect this wealth of knowledge into a set of viewgraphs in order to teach a graduate class in Flexible Robot Dynamics and Controls within the Mechanical En­ gineering Department at the University of New Mexico (UNM)...read more

Product Description: The book familiarizes the reader with the flexible assembly systems planning and scheduling issues and various operations research modelling and solution approaches. Some of the many topic highlights presented are the overall structure and components of a flexible assembly system, bi-objective integer programming models and algorithms for machine loading, assembly routing, and assembly plan selection, and fast combinatorial heuristics for scheduling flexible assembly lines with limited intermediate buffers...read more

Product Description: Industrial Production Management in Flexible Manufacturing Systems addresses the present discussions surrounding flexible production systems based on automation, robotics and cybernetics as they continue to replace the traditional production systems...read more

Product Description: The current marketplace is undergoing an accelerated pace of change that challenges corporations to innovate new techniques to respond rapidly to an ever-changing environment. At the center of this changing environment is a new generation of empowered buyers (customers) equipped with fast­ evolving technologies that allow them to buy from markets scattered across the globe...read more

Die industrielle Montage unterliegt einem raschen Produktwechsel, einer steigender Variantenzahl, dem Preis- und Kostendruck aus Niedriglohnländern sowie kurzen Planungshorizonten der Kunden. Dem kann wirkungsvoll durch einen ganzheitlichen Rationalisierungsansatz der Montage, eine hochflexible Montagetechnik und durch qualifiziertes Personal begegnet werden. Dieses praxisorientierte Handbuch vermittelt hierzu die Grundlagen der industriellen Montage variantenreicher Produkte der Elektro- und Feinwerktechnik, des Maschinenbaus und der Automobilzulieferindustrie. Wichtige Ansätze sind die montagegerechte Produktgestaltung, die Primär-Sekundär-Analyse, der verrichtungsweise Montageablauf, das One-Piece-Flow-Prinzip, die bevorratungsfreie Fließmontage und Hybride Montagesysteme. Die detaillierte Beschreibung der Montageplanung, der Betriebsmittel und des Montagebetriebs sowie sorgfältig ausgearbeitete Beispiele unterstützen die Umsetzung in die Praxis.  

Product Description: The purpose of this book is to discuss the state of the art and future trends in the field of computerized production management systems. It is composed of a number of independent papers, each presented in a chapter. Some of the widely recognized experts in the field around the world have been asked to contribute...read more

A textbook focusing on automation, flexible automation, and CIM. Provides the scientific principles and analytical background for manufacturing planning, control, and design. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Software documentation forms the basis for all communication relating to a software project. To be truly effective and usable, it should be based on what needs to be known. Agile Documentation provides sound advice on how to produce lean and lightweight software documentation. It will be welcomed by all project team members who want to cut out the fat from this time consuming task. Guidance given in pattern form, easily digested and cross-referenced, provides solutions to common problems. Straightforward advice will help you to judge: What details should be left in and what left out When communication face-to-face would be better than paper or online How to adapt the documentation process to the requirements of individual projects and build in change How to organise documents and make them easily accessible When to use diagrams rather than text How to choose the right tools and techniques How documentation impacts the customer Better than offering pat answers or prescriptions, this book will help you to understand the elements and processes that can be found repeatedly in good project documentation and which can be shaped and designed to address your individual circumstance. The author uses real-world examples and utilises agile principles to provide an accessible, practical pattern-based guide which shows how to produce necessary and high quality documentation.

Product Description: Modular products are products that fulfill various overall functions through the combination of distinct building blocks or modules, in the sense that the overall function performed by the product can be divided into sub-functions that can be implemented by different modules or components...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: According to Askin and Standridge, "the purpose ofmanufacturing, at least idealistically, is to enrich society through the production of functionally de sirable, aesthetically pleasing, environmentally safe, economically affordable, highly reliable, top-quality products" [AS93]...read more

Product Description: A collection of ten articles that chronicle the evolution of business competition from mass markets to markets of one - in other words, from creating standardized value through mass production to creating customer-unique value through mass customization. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The IEMT symposium provides a forum for sharing experiences and knowledge based on microelectronic research and development. This volume is the result of the 1997 symposium and topics include: flip chip and TAB, substrate, soldering process, manufacturing, and packaging technology...read more

Product Description: This study of the pursuit of the "automatic factory" focuses on the key industry of metalworking in Britain, Italy, Japan and the United States. It unveils a recurring historical conflict between two logics of factory management and organization: workshop principles and principles of a standardized factory...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)