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Manufacturing Considerations
Manufacturing considerations encompass the various factors that need to be taken into account during the production of goods. This includes aspects such as material selection, production processes, quality control, and cost efficiency. By carefully considering these factors, manufacturers can optimize their production processes to ensure the delivery of high-quality products while minimizing waste and maximizing profitability.
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eBook - ePubMechanical Engineering Practices in Industry
A Beginner’s Guide
- Dhruba J Syam(Author)
- 2023(Publication Date)
- CRC Press(Publisher)
6 Techno-Organizational Aspects of Production and Manufacturing Management in Engineering Industries“If a Production Manager always keeps in mind as to why and for whom he is producing, more than half of his work-stresses may vanish leaving him freer to attend to other nitty-gritty”.—From a lecture delivered by a Management Consultant.6.0 Production and Manufacturing Aspects
In the Industrial Enterprises, particularly the engineering goods manufacturing units, the role of the mechanical engineers/technologists and mechanical technicians are vital for successful and smooth operations, since most of the applicable production technology and manufacturing activities that take place in the shops are predominantly mechanical process oriented, from the preparatory and launching stages to the finishing stages. There are however, certain variations in the in--process inspection, testing and measurements for electrical and electronic products and components which may follow a different set of dedicated procedures, process and parameters necessitated by the unique requirements of such electrical and electronic products/components. Nevertheless, irrespective of the industrial unit producing mechanical or electrical or electronic items, the services of the mechanical engineers and technicians are essentially required since they are comparatively better conversant and trained to carry out such shop-floor activities in the specific engineering and technological regimes. Having gone through the topics and issues mentioned in the Chapters 4 & 5
No longer available |Learn more- (Author)
- 2014(Publication Date)
- Orange Apple(Publisher)
____________________ WORLD TECHNOLOGIES ____________________ Chapter- 6 Manufacturing Engineering Production Engineering Production engineering is a combination of manufacturing technology with management science. A production engineer typically has a wide knowledge in engineering and is aware of the management challenges related to production. Production engineering encompasses castings, joining processes, metal cutting & tool design, metrology, machine tools, machining systems, automation, jigs and fixtures, and die and mould design. In industry, once the design is realized, a production engineering concept regarding work-study, ergonomics, operation research, manufacturing management, materials management, production planning etc., play important role in efficient production processes. These concepts are neatly polished off on the course of content under separate subject heads that come handy in accomplishing the production in smoothest, judicious and economical way. These deals with integrated design and efficient planning of the entire manufacturing system, which is becoming increasingly complex with the emergence of sophisticated, production methods and control systems. Production Engineer Work opportunities are available in public and private sector manufacturing organizations engaged in implementation, development and management of new production processes, information and control systems and computer controlled inspection, assembly and handling. ____________________ WORLD TECHNOLOGIES ____________________ Industrial Engineering Industrial engineering is a branch of engineering dealing with the optimization of complex processes or systems.
eBook - PDF- V. Kordic, A. Lazinica, M. Merdan, V. Kordic, A. Lazinica, M. Merdan(Authors)
- 2006(Publication Date)
- IntechOpen(Publisher)
For example, computer numerical control (CNC), computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) or computer-aided engineering (CAE) are appropriate for a strategy seeking Manufacturing the Future: Concepts, Technologies & Visions 730 flexibility. Manufacturing technologies have been grouped and classified in several different ways, some based on the level of integration, or the nature of the technology. (Rosenthal, 1984; Warner, 1987; Adler, 1988; Paul and Suresh, 1991; Small and Chen, 1997). Swamidass and Kotha (1998), in an empirical study, found that nineteen tech-nologies used in manufacturing could be classified into four groups based on the volume and variety considerations of the production process. Their em-pirical results indicate that manufacturing technology could be classified into four groups: 1) Information exchange and planning technology 2) Product design technology 3) High-volume automation technology and 4) Low-volume flexible automation technology . A notable conclusion of their study being that High-volume automation technol-ogy could be used to serve the low variety and high volume production strat-egy, while Product design technology and Low-volume flexible automation technol-ogy could be used to serve the high variety and low volume production strategy. The implication is that technology dimensions have far reaching con-sequences for the manner in which companies use them. This study decides to use the empirically-established dimensions of manufacturing technology re-ported by some previous studies, as described in section 3, to guide this study.
- Jérémy Bonvoisin, Günther Seliger, Rainer Stark(Authors)
- 2017(Publication Date)
- Springer Open(Publisher)
2.3 Manufacturing Technologies This layer speci fi cally addresses the two factors of value creation process and equipment. It focuses on the development of production technologies, machine-tool concepts and factory management techniques ensuring that whatever has to be produced, it can be done with economy of resources which likewise uphold social standards. This fi rst requires determining speci fi c indicators which enable the identi fi cation of improvement potential at the process and at the machine level. Examples of these are found in the “ speci fi c energy consumption, ” an empiric model developed by Kara and Li ( 2011 ) for material removal processes and based on measures on machine tools, or the “ electrical deposition ef fi ciency, ” an analytic model developed by Sproesser et al. ( 2016 ) for welding processes. At facility level, cyber-physical systems (Low et al. 2005 ) and metering techniques (Kara et al. 2011 ) can be employed in tandem with appropriate facility models and simulation techniques (e.g. Herrmann and Thiede 2009 ) in order to enable optimal steering of processes within a manufacturing system. Regarding the development of new technologies, existing efforts encompass, for example, the improvement of welding technologies in terms of resource con-sumption (Sproesser et al. 2015 ) or the development of new internally cooled cutting processes (Uhlmann et al. 2012 ). At the manufacturing cell level, lifetime-extending add-ons for machine-tools (Kianinejad et al. 2016 ) and of automated workplaces preventing musculoskeletal strain by workers (Kr ü ger and Nguyen 2015 ), can be cited as examples. While such solutions form a necessary basis for sustainable manufacturing, macroeconomic calculations underscore that applying best available sectorial technologies in all regional industry sectors across the world would reduce CO 2 emissions to one-third (Ward et al. 2015 ).
eBook - PDFFundamentals of Modern Manufacturing
Materials, Processes, and Systems
- Mikell P. Groover(Author)
- 2019(Publication Date)
- Wiley(Publisher)
1 1 Making things has been an essential activity of human civiliza- tions since before recorded history. Today, the term manufac- turing is used for this activity. For technological and economic reasons, manufacturing is important to the welfare of the United States and most other developed and developing nations. Technology can be defined as the application of science to pro- vide society and its members with those things that are needed or desired. Technology affects our daily lives, directly and indi- rectly, in many ways. Consider the list of products in Table 1.1. They represent various technologies that help society and its members to live better. What do all these products have in com- mon? They are all manufactured. These technological wonders would not be available to society if they could not be manufac- tured. Manufacturing is the critical factor that makes technol- ogy possible. Economically, manufacturing is an important means by which a nation creates material wealth. In the United States, the manufacturing industries account for about 12% of gross domestic product (GDP). A country’s natural resources, such as agricultural lands, mineral deposits, and oil reserves, also cre- ate wealth.
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