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Production engineering
About: Production engineering is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2657 publications have been published within this topic receiving 37409 citations.
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01 Jan 2008
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explain how, by adhering to the principles taught by Peter F. Drucker in his landmark book The Practice of Management, managers can exploit the full potentials of their peoples' talents and of changing technologies, methods and markets.
Abstract: Managing engineering is more difficult, more demanding and more important than managing any other human activity in modern society. The article explains how, by adhering to the principles taught by Peter F. Drucker in his landmark book The Practice of Management, managers can exploit the full potentials of their peoples’ talents and of changing technologies, methods and markets. The chapter is extracted from parts of the book [1] by the author.
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01 Jan 2002
TL;DR: Gutowski et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the use, limitations, and appropriateness of value stream mapping (VSM) for manufacturing system design and found that the success of a VSM event is correlated with the environment in which it is run.
Abstract: Manufacturing system design cannot be considered a science with formal principles and equations. The methodology used here to expand the knowledge of manufacturing system design is two-fold and includes an in-depth manufacturing system redesign and an investigation into the current uses, limitations, and appropriateness of value stream mapping (VSM). The case study shows why the given system was lacking in efficiency and what could be learned to improve its design. The analysis found the machinist to be a critical, yet overextended, resource for smooth production flow. Using multiple tools, a mismatch was identified between the current goals and system. A future system was designed that could manage both the system parameters and the expected changes in these inputs within the lifetime of the system. In the second part of the thesis, value stream mapping was studied through a mixture of case studies, interviews, and a survey. The principal result is that the success of a value stream mapping event is correlated with the environment in which it is run. This analysis shows the necessity for companies to rethink the capacity of VSM to benefit a particular system. A worksheet is proposed which can be used to determine the appropriateness of VSM. Thesis Supervisor: Timothy G. Gutowski Title: Professor of Mechanical Engineering/Associate Department Head
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TL;DR: In recent years the term "mechatronics" has come into use to describe a multi-disciplinary approach to engineering (and particularly engineering design) in which a symbiosis of mechanical, electrical, electronic, computer and software engineering is used to create new design solutions to engineering problems as mentioned in this paper.
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TL;DR: In this article, a system-level approach for flexible manufacturing comprised of reconfigurable modular production cells, which can be easily composed into production lines, is presented and validated in a vertically integrated production line manufacturing an industrial product with high variability.
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