Production Systems Engineering : Cost and Performance Optimization

Optimize Economic and Technological Requirements in Production System Designs

This pioneering work offers proven techniques, partially created and developed at The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, for determining optimal resource allocation and cost-effective production system designs for today’s any-volume manufacturing environments. Production Systems Engineering presents a unique methodology that synthesizes applicable technology with economic requirements for an integrated solution. Featuring real-world case studies, this authoritative resource establishes a new paradigm for the manufacturing world that can also be applied to other enterprise environments.

Coverage includes :

• Determining an improved manufacturing system design method
• System design basics, time allocation, resources, costs, and quality rating
• Stochastic analyses added to deterministic results
• System configuration options
• Multiple disparate products produced by one system
• World class versus mostly manual systems
• Determining allowable investment
• Simultaneous improvement in yield and cycle-time

List of Tables
List of Illustrations
Preface

Chapter 1 : Finding a Better Method for Manufacturing System Design
Chapter 2 : Results from Initial Studies
Chapter 3 : Real-World Applications Lead to Enhanced Understanding
Chapter 4 : Stochastic Analyses Added to Deterministic Results
Chapter 5 : Initial Look at System Configurations
Chapter 6 : Multiple Disparate Products Produced by One System
Chapter 7 : World-Class Versus Mostly Manual Systems

Appendix A : Determining Allowable Investment
Appendix B : Economic-Technological Synthesis of Systems
Appendix C : Establishing Task Data for Assembly Systems
Appendix D : Simultaneous Improvement in Yield and Cycle-Time
Appendix E : Two Case Study Summaries
Appendix F : Advanced System Design Procedure
References
Index