Download or read book Assembly Line Design written by Brahim Rekiek and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-21 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Assembly Lines The Complete Book written by Roger Wagner and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Note: This is the second printing. It contains all of the corrections as of May 2017 as well as an updated back cover. Roger Wagner's Assembly Lines articles originally appeared in Softalk magazine from October 1980 to June 1983. The first fifteen articles were reprinted in 1982 in Assembly Lines: The Book. Now, for the first time, all thirty-three articles are available in one complete volume. This edition also contains all of the appendices from the original book as well as new appendices on the 65C02, zero-page memory usage, and a beginner's guide to using the Merlin Assembler. The book is designed for students of all ages: the nostalgic programmer enjoying the retro revolution, the newcomer interested in learning low-level assembly coding, or the embedded systems developer using the latest 65C02 chips from Western Design Center. "Roger Wagner didn't just read the first book on programming the Apple computer-he wrote it." - Steve Wozniak
Download or read book America s Assembly Line written by David E. Nye and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-01-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Model T to today's "lean manufacturing": the assembly line as crucial, yet controversial, agent of social and economic transformation. The mechanized assembly line was invented in 1913 and has been in continuous operation ever since. It is the most familiar form of mass production. Both praised as a boon to workers and condemned for exploiting them, it has been celebrated and satirized. (We can still picture Chaplin's little tramp trying to keep up with a factory conveyor belt.) In America's Assembly Line, David Nye examines the industrial innovation that made the United States productive and wealthy in the twentieth century. The assembly line—developed at the Ford Motor Company in 1913 for the mass production of Model Ts—first created and then served an expanding mass market. It also transformed industrial labor. By 1980, Japan had reinvented the assembly line as a system of “lean manufacturing”; American industry reluctantly adopted the new approach. Nye describes this evolution and the new global landscape of increasingly automated factories, with fewer industrial jobs in America and questionable working conditions in developing countries. A century after Ford's pioneering innovation, the assembly line continues to evolve toward more sustainable manufacturing.
Download or read book Assembly Lines written by Jane Commane and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assembly Line Planning and Control written by Nick T. Thomopoulos and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-09-11 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Balancing and Sequencing of Assembly Lines written by Armin Scholl and published by Physica. This book was released on 1999-02-26 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book deals with two main decision problems which arise when flow-line production systems are installed and operated. The assembly line balancing problem consists of partitioning the work, necessary to assemble the product(s), among different stations of an assembly line. If several models of a product are jointly processed on a line, this medium-term problem is connected with the short-term problem of determining an operating sequence of the models. In Part I balancing and sequencing problems are discussed, classified, and arranged within a hierarchical planning system. In the present second edition special emphasis is given to u-shaped assembly lines which are important components of modern just-in-time production systems. Part II is concerned with exact and heuristic procedures for solving those decision problems. For each problem type considered, a survey of existing procedures is given and new efficient solution methods are developed. Comprehensive numerical investigations showing the effectiveness of the new methods and their superiority over existing approaches are reported.
Download or read book Kaizen Assembly written by Chris A. Ortiz and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2006-06-26 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Rivethead written by Ben Hamper and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-14 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The man the Detroit Free Press calls "a blue collar Tom Wolfe" delivers a full-barreled blast of truth and gritty reality in Rivethead, a no-holds-barred journey through the belly of the American industrial beast.
Download or read book Assembly Lines the Book written by Roger Wagner and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Henry Ford and the Assembly Line written by Angela Royston and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Ford changed the way products were made using his breakthrough idea of utilizing the assembly line. Readers will love learning about the life of this amazing inventor who made cars available to Americans everywhere. This book covers Ford’s early life and work as an engineer. It also highlights Ford’s many experiments and inventions, emphasizing the Model T and how the assembly line worked. This book is a great addition to STEM and history curricula, as it covers both subjects through an exciting biographical scope. Readers will connect to Ford’s life story through authentic photographs, engaging text, and an accessible timeline.
Download or read book Assembly Line Design written by We-Min Chow and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Production Line Efficiency written by Sabry Shaaban and published by Business Expert Press. This book was released on 2010-05-28 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the area of unpaced, unbalanced production lines. You will find an up-to-date discussion of how designing these lines can be made more efficient by taking advantage of inherent imbalance -- for example operators who work at different speeds- a concept which has traditionally been seen as an obstacle to efficient production. A series of experiments are presented to illustrate the issues involved in improving performance through production line imbalance. This area is of interest to postgraduate and executive level students interested in the area of production, and to managers of manual or semi-automated production lines who are interested in innovative approaches to line design. In this book you will find some surprisingly easy ways to improve performance with low or zero costs. Emphasis is placed on reducing the amount of time production lines lie idle, and on reducing work in process. This is a timely contribution to the field when managers are casting around for new ways to cut waste and reduce their use of natural resources.
Download or read book Sex Lies and the Ford Motor Company Assembly Line written by Michelle Lynn Guerra and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You may wonder or might not ever give a damn about why I would decide to spend my time spilling all this inside information about our factories. I did it so that some of us line rats are exposed for the rats we really are. Maybe it is because I just want to gain a bit a respect for all the hardworking, sweating hours that went into those vehicles that some of us deserve. I would like to clear up many false impressions that all of us Ford Employees have to try to live up to that are not even close to being realistically true! Whatever the case may be, I like most of American has a story to tell. I have allowed myself to tell the truth, chase any issues that I had stored all boggled up inside, sometimes taking myself to even the darkest depressing places in my life. I changed all the names, days, and identifying characteristics of many people portrayed in this book have been obscured for literary cohesion, to protect our privacy, to protect the guilty so that they may retain their innocence, and so that my husband will not divorce me.
Download or read book Production Planning and Scheduling in Flexible Assembly Systems written by Tadeusz Sawik and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Also the book deals with just-in-time scheduling of flexible assembly lines, and dynamic dispatching algorithms for simultaneous scheduling of assembly stations and automated guided vehicles.
Download or read book Assembly Line Balance written by and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical Industrial Engineering in the Documentation, Measurement, and Balance of the Assembly Line
Download or read book The Invention of the Assembly Line written by Nikole Brooks Bethea and published by Momentum. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at the invention of the assembly line. Additional features include a table of contents, a Fast Facts spread, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, an index, and sources for further research.
Download or read book Assembly Line Balancing under Demand Uncertainty written by Celso Gustavo Stall Sikora and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assembly lines are productive systems, which are very efficient for homogeneous products. In the automotive industry, an assembly line is used in the production of several vehicle variants, including numerous configurations, options, and add-ins. As a result, assembly lines must be at the same time specialized to provide high efficiency, but also flexible to allow the mass customization of the vehicles. In this book, the planning of assembly lines for uncertain demand is tackled and optimization algorithms are offered for the balancing of such lines. Building an assembly line is a commitment of several months or even years, it is understandable that the demand will fluctuate during the lifetime of an assembly line. New products are developed, others are removed from the market, and the decision of the final customer plays a role on the immediate demand. Therefore, the variation and uncertainty of the demand must be accounted for in an assembly line. In this book, methods dealing with random demand or random production sequence are presented, so that the practitioners can plan more robust and efficient production systems.
