Make it! : engineering the manufacturing solution / John Garside.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garside, John, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Production planning.

Manufacturing cells.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

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

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

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [266]-267) and index.

ISBN:

1-281-03491-6

9786611034917

0-08-051067-1

OCLC:

476103289