Book description
With examples drawn from aerospace, electronics, household appliance, personal products, and automotive industries, Lean Assembly shows readers how to properly analyze and design assembly systems, working out all the details such as incorporating mistake-proofing concepts. The book provides a guided tour of lean manufacturing te
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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