Book description
With examples drawn from aerospace, electronics, household appliance, personal products, and automotive industries, Lean Assembly covers the engineering of assembly operations through:- Characterizing the demand in terms of volume by product and product family, component consumption, seasonal variability and life cycle.
- Matching the physical structure of the shop floor to the demand with the goal of approaching takt-driven production as closely as possible.
- Working out the details of assembly tasks station by station, including station sizing, tooling, fixturing, operator instructions, part presentation, conveyance between stations, and the geometry of assembly lines as a whole.
- Incorporating mistake-proofing, successive inspection, and test operations for quality assurance.
Lean Assembly differs from most other books on lean manufacturing in that it focuses on technical content as a driver for implementation methods. The emphasis is on exactly what should be done. This book should be the "dog-eared" and "penciled-in" resource on every assembly engineer's desk.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- A guided tour
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Part A Analysis techniques
- Chapter 1 Key issues of assembly operations
- Chapter 2 Product quantity analysis
- Chapter 3 Trend and seasonality analysis
- Chapter 4 Takt time and capacity
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Part B Assembly concepts
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Chapter 5 Visualizing the assembly process
- 5.1. Needs and evaluation criteria for visualization tools
- 5.2. The problem with facility blueprints
- 5.3. Lists and assembly master tables
- 5.4. Abstract flow diagrams and their limitations
- 5.5. Layout diagrams with flows
- 5.6. Photographs
- 5.7. Video recordings
- 5.8. Cardboard mock-ups
- 5.9. Discrete-event simulations
- Chapter 6 The concept of the assembly line
- Chapter 7 Collecting assembly time data
- Chapter 8 Tine balancing
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Chapter 5 Visualizing the assembly process
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Part C Detailed design
- Chapter 9 Assembly station sizing
- Chapter 10 Detailed design of assembly stations
- Chapter 11 Part presentation
- Chapter 12 Conveyance between stations
- Chapter 13 Assembly cells
- Chapter 14 Overall shape of assembly lines
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Part D Assembly quality
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Chapter 15 Preventing picking errors
- 15.1. About this chapter
- 15.2. Mistake-proofing assembly operations
- 15.3. Approaches to automatic identification
- 15.4. Using kit pallets and product fixtures to prevent mistakes
- 15.5. Mistake-proofing lineside picking
- 15.6. Mistake-proofing the kitting process
- 15.7. From stores to the line
- 15.8. Storage and retrieval
- 15.9. Naming items to avoid confusion
- 15.10. From the supplier to the dock
- Chapter 16 Inspection, test, and rework operations
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Chapter 15 Preventing picking errors
- Bibliography
- Index
Product information
- Title: Lean Assembly
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2020
- Publisher(s): Productivity Press
- ISBN: 9781000285635
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