21st Century ManufacturingPrentice Hall, 2001 - 460 من الصفحات Written in a conversational style, this book explores today's technologies and the future of manufacturing -- through details of the product design process, rapid prototyping, a survey of manufacturing techniques relevant to today's production of consumer electronics or electromechanical devices, and the field of Biotechnology. It gives readers a broader appreciation of the impact of manufacturing process and not just manufacturing per se. A overview of the broader issues includes: the time to market, development of a new product, launching products into the marketplace, quality control, and the impact of technology on the next generation of products. Chapter topics cover manufacturing analysis; product design, computer aided design, and solid modeling; solid freeform fabrication and rapid prototyping; semiconductor manufacturing; computer manufacturing; metal-products manufacturing; plastics-products manufacturing and system assembly; and biotechnology. For executive education courses, appealing to both engineering and business professionals. |
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... improving the weight , cost , and usefulness over existing shovels . Emphasis is placed on the shovel head as the component with the most potential for improve- ment . The shovels that were found in the marketplace were separated into ...
... improvement as well as to companies devel- oping cutting edge products ( see Figure 10.1 ) . The primary organizational ... improve efficiency in existing operations . • II , time - to - market : introduce methods and technologies that ...
... improved with automation . The objective could be to reduce product variance , reduce waste , reduce production cost , improve throughput , modify product design , and so forth . See the examples in the following section . Where ...