Continuous flow manufacturing : quality in design and processes

✍ Scribed by Pierre C Guerindon

• Publisher: M. Dekker
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 297
• Series: Manufacturing engineering and materials processing, 45
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 16
Foreword......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Introduction......Page 18
1. Strategies for a New Era......Page 22
2. The Modernization Vision......Page 34
3. The Continuous Flow Factory Vision......Page 52
4. Automation for the Continuous Flow Factory......Page 82
5. Overcoming the Challenges of Automation......Page 120
6. Comparing Continuous Flow and Traditional Factories......Page 144
7. Information Systems for the Continuous Flow Factory......Page 158
8. Taking Action and Realizing the Gains......Page 182
9. Consolidating the Gains of Continuous Flow Manufacturing......Page 200
10. Justifying, Approving, and Monitoring the Investment......Page 212
11. Creating a Continuous Flow Factory......Page 234
Conclusion......Page 270
Bibliography......Page 276
A......Page 278
C......Page 279
F......Page 280
G......Page 281
L......Page 282
N......Page 283
P......Page 284
S......Page 285
W......Page 286
A......Page 288
C......Page 289
D......Page 290
F......Page 291
I......Page 292
M......Page 293
P......Page 294
S......Page 295
T......Page 296
Y......Page 297