Working with Machines

TRAMA

How do companies in high labor cost countries manage to remain competitive? In western manufacturing, the more manual a process, the more severe the competitive handicap of high wages. Full automation would make labor costs irrelevant but remain impractical in most industries. Most successful manufacturing processes in advanced economies are neither fully manual nor fully automatic -- they involve interactions between small numbers of highly skilled people and machines that account for the bulk of the manufacturing costs and thereby remain competitive. In Working with Machines: " The Nuts and Bolts of Lean Operations With Jidoka," author Michel Baudin explains how performance differences that can be observed between factories are due to the way people use the machines -- from the human interfaces of individual machines to the linking of machines into cells, the management of monuments and common services, autonomation, maintenance, and production control. This compelling book:

SOMMARIO

A guided tour Part I: Human-Machine interfaces Chapter 1: Using machine controls Chapter 2: Performing operations on machines Chapter 3: Understanding the process Chapter 4: Programming machines Part II: Machine cells Chapter 5: Cellular manufacturing with machines Chapter 6: Design and implementation of a machine cell Chapter 7: From operator job design to task assignment Chapter 8: Cell automation and chaku-chaku line Chapter 9: Grouping cells into focuses factories Part III: Common services and monuments Chapter 10: Working with monuments Chapter 11: Setup time reduction Part IV: Automation Chapter 12: The lean approach to automation Chapter 13: Improving legacy automated systems Part V: Machine maintenance Chapter 14: Machine and facilities maintenance Chapter 15: Improving maintenance Chapter 16: Maintenance information systems Chapter 17: Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Where should you go from here? Bibliography Index

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9781563273292
• Dimensioni: 9 x 6 in Ø 1.83 lb
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pagine Arabe: 364