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Slash manufacturing costs, improve product quality. Discover today's most innovative techniques for reducing the manufacturing costs of everything from home appliances and automobiles--to aircraft and military equipment--to electronic circuit boards and computers. In Affordable Automation, by Sabrie Soloman, you'll see how to specify, design, and implement automated assembly and fabrication systems to improve the quality and efficiency of your manufacturing operations. You get proven tools you'll use to develop a long-range strategy for new technology--use flexible synchronous/asynchronous systems--ensure affordable error-free manufacturing--improve the productivity of production lines--use sensors to monitor and control productivity--and much more.
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How to bring cost-effective automation to our company--with minimal cost. With the help of this innovative guide, you'll discover how small-and medium-sized companies can survive and prosper by turning to efficient automation--with minimal cost and little operational disruption. Affordable Automation offers proven cost-reduction techniques for successfully introducing automation to your company. The book also provides solid advice on integrating manufacturing processes, reacting quickly to changes in production needs, and helping employees join in the effort to lower costs and improve product quality. This concise, step-by-step reference full explores: economical, flexible synchronous/asynchronous systems to advance manufacturing technology in industry; hands-on techniques to ensure an affordable error-free manufacturing environment; cost-effective manufacturing systems to improve the performance of production lines; economical control systems to monitor and control productivity both quantitatively and qualitatively. Whether you're a manufacturing executive, manager, or engineer, this expert guide gives you the know-how required to re-engineer the automation process in your company--at a cost you can afford.
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Engineering design is a crucial component of affordable automation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
affordable automation, programmable assembly cells, finished fasteners, station cycle time, container flap, pallet magazines, group tooling, part family code, manual workstations, indexing machine, asynchronous machine, fastener system, product realization process, final control element, locating fixtures, production flow analysis, flexible circuits, automatic stations, exposure machine, hybrid code, cylinder chamber, engineering design practices, annual production volume, work cluster, sequence valve Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, John Wiley, Harvard Business Review, Max Min, Brigham Young University, Englewood Cliffs, Government Printing Office, Probabilistic Mechanical Design, The House of Quality New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Engineering design is a crucial component of affordable automation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
affordable automation, programmable assembly cells, finished fasteners, station cycle time, container flap, pallet magazines, group tooling, part family code, manual workstations, indexing machine, asynchronous machine, fastener system, product realization process, final control element, locating fixtures, production flow analysis, flexible circuits, automatic stations, exposure machine, hybrid code, cylinder chamber, engineering design practices, annual production volume, work cluster, sequence valve Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, John Wiley, Harvard Business Review, Max Min, Brigham Young University, Englewood Cliffs, Government Printing Office, Probabilistic Mechanical Design, The House of Quality New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Quality Engineering Using Robust Design by Madhav S. Phadke on page 30, and page 32
- Introduction to the Theory of Statistics 3rd Edition by Alexander M. Mood on page 66
- Measures for Manufacturing Excellence (Harvard Business School Series on Accounting and Control) by Robert S. Kaplan on page 25
- The Design of Experiments by Ronald A. Fisher on