Handbook of Production Management Methods

Gideon Halevi9780750650885, 0-7506-5088-5

This unique book provides a guide to the selection of appropriate production and manufacturing methods for postgraduate and professional manufacturing engineers.It starts by helping the reader to identify the required objectives of industrial management for their particular situation. Having identified the objectives an analytical assessment of the available production and management methods is made. The analytical system presents an objective method of production selection. For example, this practical book will help the reader to decide whether or not a local Just-in-Time process is needed or a full chain JIT method is needed. Alternatively the problem may be deciding between set-up time reduction or changeover time reduction. Should TQM be ceded to PCIs? This book covers nearly all methods of production and manufacturing and will prove the most comprehensive guide to choosing and using these methods.Only book of its kind available Widest coverage of methods available Analytical approach to decision making

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Table of contents :
Preface……Page 9
1 Trends in manufacturing methods……Page 12
2.1 List of manufacturing methods……Page 23
2.2 Classification of methods by type……Page 27
2.3 Mapping the methods by main class……Page 30
3.1 Mapping by method objective……Page 35
3.2 Mapping by functions that the method focuses on……Page 38
3.3 Mapping the manufacturing methods……Page 40
4 Decision-making – method selection……Page 0
4.1 Objective grading tables……Page 48
4.2 Function grading tables……Page 54
4.4 Summary……Page 69
5.2 Brief descriptions of the 110 manufacturing methods……Page 70
Agent-driven approach……Page 73
Agile Manufacturing……Page 75
Autonomous enterprise……Page 79
Autonomous production cells……Page 81
Benchmarking……Page 83
Bionic manufacturing system……Page 86
Borderless corporation……Page 87
Business intelligence and data warehousing……Page 88
Business process re-engineering (BPR)……Page 89
CAD/CAM, CNC, Robots Computer-aided design and manufacturing……Page 92
Cellular manufacturing……Page 96
Client/server architecture……Page 98
Collaborative manufacturing in virtual enterprises……Page 99
Competitive edge……Page 104
Search addresses on the Web……Page 109
Concurrent engineering (CE)……Page 116
Cooperative manufacturing……Page 122
Core competence……Page 125
Cost estimation……Page 128
Cross-functional leadership……Page 130
Customer retention……Page 136
Cycle time management (CTM)……Page 138
Demand chain management……Page 139
Digital factory……Page 141
Drum buffer rope (DBR)……Page 144
E-business……Page 146
E-manufacturing – F2B2C……Page 148
Electronic commerce……Page 151
Enterprise resource planning (ERP)……Page 157
Executive Excellence……Page 164
Expert systems……Page 166
Flat organization……Page 167
Fractal manufacturing system……Page 173
Fuzzy logic……Page 176
Genetic manufacturing system……Page 178
Global manufacturing network (GMN)……Page 180
Global manufacturing system……Page 181
Group technology……Page 185
Holonic manufacturing systems (HMS)……Page 190
House of quality (HOQ)……Page 195
Intelligent manufacturing system (IMS)……Page 202
Kaizen blitz……Page 208
Kanban system……Page 210
Knowledge management……Page 212
Lean manufacturing……Page 215
Life-cycle product design……Page 218
Manufacturing enterprise wheel……Page 221
Manufacturing excellence……Page 222
Manufacturing execution system (MES)……Page 224
Master product design……Page 227
Master Production Scheduling……Page 230
Matrix shop floor control……Page 236
Mission statement……Page 238
Mobile agent system……Page 240
Multi-agent manufacturing system……Page 242
One-of-a-kind manufacturing (OKM)……Page 245
Outsourcing……Page 248
Partnerships……Page 252
Performance measurement system……Page 254
Product life-cycle management……Page 260
Random manufacturing system……Page 266
Reactive scheduling……Page 268
Self-organizing manufacturing methods……Page 271
Seven paths to growth……Page 274
Single minute exchange of dies (SMED)……Page 276
Statistical process control (SPC)……Page 277
Strategic sourcing……Page 279
Supply chain management……Page 282
Taguchi method……Page 285
Team performance measuring and managing……Page 287
Theory of constraint (TOC)……Page 288
Total quality management (TQM)……Page 295
Value chain analysis……Page 299
Value engineering……Page 301
Virtual enterprises……Page 303
Virtual manufacturing……Page 305
Virtual reality for design and manufacturing……Page 308
Virtual reality……Page 310
Waste management and recycling……Page 313
Workflow management……Page 315
World class manufacturing……Page 318
Index……Page 322