Download or read book Scale in Production Systems written by John A. Buzacott and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1982 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IIASA Proceedings Series, Volume 15: Scale in Production Systems focuses on the applications of scale in the industries. The book is based on a workshop held at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in June 1979 as part of the research program of the Management and Technology Area. The selection first underscores the problems of scale and revision of approaches in the evaluation of scale economies in industry. Discussions focus on empirical perspectives on improving appraisals of scale effects; analytical limitations of past theory and empirical findings; interpretation of analytical findings; and approaches to the study of scale problems. The text then takes a look at the problems of scale in international air transportation and optimal size of subcritical fossil-fueled electric generating units. The publication ponders on the implications of plant scale in the chemical industry, with particular reference to ethylene plants, and scale, technology, and the learning curve. The evolution of manufacturing systems and sources of the learning curve are identified. The manuscript then elaborates on the aspects of determining the scale of an organization; problems of determining production scale in Soviet industry; and industry scale, free trade, and protection. The selection is a dependable reference for readers interested in the use of scale in production systems.
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Download or read book El Sistema de Produccion Toyota written by Taiichi Ohno and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Si usted quiere entender como se origino el sistema de producci?n Toyota y por que tiene exito, debe leer este libro. Aqui encontrara una introducci?n avanzada del justo a tiempo. El mundo le debe mucho a Taiichi Ohno. Nos ha demostrado como fbricar con mayor eficacia, como reducir costos, como producir una mayor calidad, y a examinar atentamente como nosotros, en nuestra calidad de seres humanos, trabajamos en una fbrica. El relato que Ohno cuenta en este libro es brillante. Deberia ser leido por todos los gerentes. No es solo un relato acerca de la fabricaci?n; sino tambien sobre como dirigir exitosamente una empresa.
Download or read book Toyota Production System written by Taiichi Ohno and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic text, Taiichi Ohno--inventor of the Toyota Production System and Lean manufacturing--shares the genius that sets him apart as one of the most disciplined and creative thinkers of our time. Combining his candid insights with a rigorous analysis of Toyota's attempts at Lean production, Ohno's book explains how Lean principles can improve any production endeavor. A historical and philosophical description of just-in-time and Lean manufacturing, this work is a must read for all students of human progress. On a more practical level, it continues to provide inspiration and instruction for those seeking to improve efficiency through the elimination of waste.
Download or read book Operations and Production Systems with Multiple Objectives written by Behnam Malakooti and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 1115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive book to uniquely combine the three fields of systems engineering, operations/production systems, and multiple criteria decision making/optimization Systems engineering is the art and science of designing, engineering, and building complex systems—combining art, science, management, and engineering disciplines. Operations and Production Systems with Multiple Objectives covers all classical topics of operations and production systems as well as new topics not seen in any similiar textbooks before: small-scale design of cellular systems, large-scale design of complex systems, clustering, productivity and efficiency measurements, and energy systems. Filled with completely new perspectives, paradigms, and robust methods of solving classic and modern problems, the book includes numerous examples and sample spreadsheets for solving each problem, a solutions manual, and a book companion site complete with worked examples and supplemental articles. Operations and Production Systems with Multiple Objectives will teach readers: How operations and production systems are designed and planned How operations and production systems are engineered and optimized How to formulate and solve manufacturing systems problems How to model and solve interdisciplinary and systems engineering problems How to solve decision problems with multiple and conflicting objectives This book is ideal for senior undergraduate, MS, and PhD graduate students in all fields of engineering, business, and management as well as practitioners and researchers in systems engineering, operations, production, and manufacturing.
Download or read book Handbook of Cellular Manufacturing Systems written by Shahrukh A. Irani and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1999-04-15 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cellular manufacturing (CM) is the grouping of similar products for manufacture in discrete multi-machine cells. It has been proven to yield faster production cycles, lower in-process inventory levels, and enhanced product quality. Pioneered on a large scale by Russian, British, and German manufacturers, interest in CM methods has grown steadily over the past decade. However, there continues to be a dearth of practical guides for industrial engineers and production managers interested in implementing CM techniques in their plants. Bringing together contributions by an international team of CM experts, the Handbook of Cellular Manufacturing Systems bridges this gap in the engineering literature.
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Download or read book Solving Large Scale Production Scheduling and Planning in the Process Industries written by Georgios M. Kopanos and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a number of efficient techniques for solving large-scale production scheduling and planning problems in process industries. The main content is supplemented by a wealth of illustrations, while case studies on large-scale industrial applications, ranging from continuous to semicontinuous and batch processes, round out the coverage. The book examines a variety of complex, real-world problems, and demonstrates solutions that are applicable to scenarios and countries around the world. Specifically, these case studies include: • the production planning of the bottling stage of a major brewery at the Cervecería Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma (Heineken Int) in Mexico;• the production scheduling for multi-stage semicontinuous processes at an ice-cream production facility of Unilever in the Netherlands;• the resource-constrained production planning for the yogurt production line at the KRI KRI dairy production facility in Greece; and• the production scheduling for large-scale, multi-stage batch processes at a pharmaceutical batch plant in Germany. In addition, the book includes industrial-inspired case studies of: • the simultaneous planning of production and logistics operations considering multi-site facilities for semicontinuous processes; and• the integrated planning of production and utility systems in process industries under uncertainty. Solving Large-scale Production Scheduling and Planning in the Process Industries offers a valuable reference guide for researchers and decision-makers alike, as it shows readers how to evaluate and improve existing installations, and how to design new ones. It is also well suited as a textbook for advanced courses on production scheduling and planning in industry, as it addresses the optimization of production and logistics operations in real-world process industries.
Download or read book Effective Transition from Design to Production written by David F. Ciambrone and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2007-10-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a new product from the design stage to large-scale production in a profitable, efficient manner can challenge the processes of even the most advanced companies. Lapses in these processes drive up the cost of new products, and hinder their launch into the marketplace. Effective Transition from Design to Production provides an expeditio
Download or read book Multiple Time Scale Analysis of Manufacturing Systems written by Carl Adam Caromicoli and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper the authors use results on the aggregation of singularly perturbed Markov chains to analyze manufacturing systems. The basis for this analysis is the presence in the system of events and processes that occur at markedly different rates -- operations of machines, set-ups, failures, and repairs, etc. The result of the analysis is a set of models, each far simpler that the full model, describing system behavior over different time horizons. In addition, this document presents a new theoretical result on the computation of asymptotic rates of particular events in perturbed Markov processes, where an event may correspond to the occurrence of the one several transitions in the process. We may apply this result to compute effective production rates at different time scales, taking into account the occurrence of setups and failures.
Download or read book Production systems and hierarchies of centres written by J. Gunnarsson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Analysis and Management of Productivity and Efficiency in Production Systems for Goods and Services written by Fabio Sartori Piran and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-01-08 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In companies that produce goods and services, productivity and efficiency improvements are a constant challenge. This book reviews the differences between productivity and efficiency. It proposes a new method and makes available a computational tool for implementation that contributes to facilitating the use of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The book presents a discussion about productivity and efficiency, illustrating the potentials of use and conceptual differences. It covers the concepts and techniques for analysis of productivity and efficiency, analyzing critical benefits and limitations, explains in detail how to use DEA for analysis, provides innovative methods for using DEA, offers a free online computer tool with a direction guide, shows real empirical applications, and covers other techniques that can be used to complement the analysis performed. The book is for professionals, managers, consultants, students working and taking courses in productive systems of goods and services. Ancillary materials include a free online computer tool to operationalize the concepts and methods proposed in the book, a guide on how to use the method and the software developed for the DEA application. Solutions manual, instructor’s manual, PowerPoint slides, and figure slides also will be available upon qualified adoption.
Download or read book Flexible Production Systems Management written by Cong Zhao and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is devoted to the study of flexible production systems. Flexibility refers to the ability to make multiple different products on the same production line. It is a key feature that modern manufacturers seek to serve diversified and volatile customer market. However, most of the existing studies focus on investment cost, flexibility measurement, and scheduling. There is a need for a comprehensive study by taking into account of machine reliability, finite inventory, setup times, and inhomogeneous demands. In this work, we study flexibility in a hierarchical framework: at both the operational level and manufacturing plant planning level. At the operational level, we examine flexible serial production lines with multiple unreliable machines and finite buffers in the views of discrete time and continuous time. We derive closed-form solutions for one- and two-machine systems and develop accurate performance evaluation algorithms for systems at a large scale. To extend the methods, we generalize the analytical study of long flexible production lines to those lines with random setup time during product changeovers. Efficient aggregation algorithms are derived to evaluate line performance of such systems. Using the analytical tools developed, we study system bottlenecks, i.e., the machine and product whose improvement will lead to the largest improvement in system throughput. Various types of bottlenecks are visited, and bottleneck indicators are proposed to avoid complicated calculations and provide managerial insights. The tools are used to develop effective control policies for meeting throughput targets and reducing idle time. At the strategic level, we study production system flexibility measures regarding matching production capacities and demands. Closed-form bounds of demand shortfall, as well as an accurate estimate of the service level, are obtained. Sensitivity analyses of service level on reductions in setup time, downtime and cycle time are carried out, and the impact of new product launch and product correlation on system flexibility, are also investigated. Finally, case studies are introduced to illustrate the applicability of the work in this dissertation. The results of this work provide manufacturing enterprise managers and engineers quantitative tools for flexible system operation management and planning.
Download or read book Robust Model Predictive Control for Large Scale Manufacturing Systems subject to Uncertainties written by Jens Tonne and published by kassel university press GmbH. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Large scale manufacturing systems are often run with constant process parameters although continuous and abrupt disturbances influence the process. To reduce quality variations and scrap, a closed-loop control of the process variables becomes indispensable. In this thesis, a modeling and control framework for multistage manufacturing systems is developed, in which the systems are subject to abrupt faults, such as component defects, and continuous disturbances. In this context, three main topics are considered: the development of a modeling framework, the design of robust distributed controllers, and the application of both to the models of a real hot stamping line. The focus of all topics is on the control of the product properties considering the available knowledge of faults and disturbances.
Download or read book Time Scale Analysis Techniques for Flexible Manufacturing Systems written by Carl Adam Caromicoli and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis uses results on the aggregation of singularly perturbed Markov chains to analyze manufacturing systems. The basis for this analysis is the presence in the system of events and processes that occur at markedly different rates - operations on machines, set-ups, failures and repairs, etc. The result of the analysis is a set of models, each far simpler than the full model, describing system behavior over different time horizons. In addition, a new theoretical result is presented on the computation of asymptotic rates of particular events in perturbed Markov processes, where an event may correspond to the occurrence of one of several transitions in the process. This result is used to compute effective production rates at different time scales, taking into account the occurrence of set-ups and failures.
Download or read book Seeking SRE written by David N. Blank-Edelman and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizations big and small have started to realize just how crucial system and application reliability is to their business. Theyâ??ve also learned just how difficult it is to maintain that reliability while iterating at the speed demanded by the marketplace. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a proven approach to this challenge. SRE is a large and rich topic to discuss. Google led the way with Site Reliability Engineering, the wildly successful Oâ??Reilly book that described Googleâ??s creation of the discipline and the implementation thatâ??s allowed them to operate at a planetary scale. Inspired by that earlier work, this book explores a very different part of the SRE space. The more than two dozen chapters in Seeking SRE bring you into some of the important conversations going on in the SRE world right now. Listen as engineers and other leaders in the field discuss: Different ways of implementing SRE and SRE principles in a wide variety of settings How SRE relates to other approaches such as DevOps Specialties on the cutting edge that will soon be commonplace in SRE Best practices and technologies that make practicing SRE easier The important but rarely explored human side of SRE David N. Blank-Edelman is the bookâ??s curator and editor.
