A technological book is written and published for one of two reasons: it either renders some other book in the same field obsolete or breaks new ground in the sense that a gap is filled. The present book aims to do the latter. On my return from industry to an academic career, I started writing this book because I had seen that a gap existed. Although a great deal of information appeared in the published literature about various technical aspects of advanced manufacturing technology (AMT), surprisingly little had been written about the systems con text within which the sophisticated hardware and software of AMT are utilized to increase efficiency. Therefore, I have attempted in this book to show how structured approaches in the design and evaluation of modern manufacturing plant may be adopted, with the objective of improving the performance of the factory as a whole. I hope this book will be a contribution to the newly recognized, multidisciplinary engineering function known as manufacturing sys tems engineering. The text has been designed specifically to demonstrate the systems aspects of modern manufacturing operations, including: systems con cepts of manufacturing operation; manufacturing systems modelling and evalua tion; and the structured design of manufacturing systems~ One of the major difficulties associated with writing a text of this nature stems from the diversity of the topics involved. I have attempted to solve this problem by adopting an overall framework into which the relevant topics are fitted.

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InhaltsangabeOne Systems.- 1 Overview of manufacturing systems analysis in the technological age.- 2 Systems concepts.- Two Manufacturing.- 3 A conceptual model of a manufacturing system.- Three Systems Engineering.- 4 The general systems approach to problem-solving.- 5 Computer simulation in manufacturing systems analysis.- Four Manufacturing Systems.- 6 A design and evaluation methodology of manufacturing systems.- Appendices.- A Survey of traditional and current methods used for production planning and control of manufacturing systems.- A.1 Overview of production planning and control.- A.2 Traditional methodologies.- A.3 Integrated production planning and control.- A.4 Conclusion.- B Sample company document defining the system requirements for the control of supplies and services.- B.1 Introduction.- B.2 Objective.- B.3 Requirement of quality system.- C The PCModel instruction set.- C.1 Object movement.- C.2 Routeing control.- C.3 Arithmetic operation.- C.4 Data input/output.- References.