Overview
- The first book to deal with the new concept of changeability of manufacturing systems and its physical and logical technological enablers
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing (SSAM)
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Managing and Justifying Change in Manufacturing – Products and Systems Design, Planning and Management
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Managing and Justifying Change in Manufacturing – Cost and Quality Management
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Changeable Manufacturing
- Enablers of Changeability
- Management of Change
- Manufacturing System
- Process Planning
- Production Planning and Cont
- capacity
- complexity
- cutting
- maintainability
- maintenance
- manufacturing
- mechanical engineering
- production
- quality control, reliability, safety and risk
- Engineering Economics
About this book
“Changeable and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems” discusses key strategies for success in the changing manufacturing environment. Changes can often be anticipated but some go beyond the design range, requiring innovative change enablers and adaptation mechanisms. The book presents the new concept of Changeability as an umbrella framework that encompasses paradigms such as agility, adaptability, flexibility and reconfigurability. It provides the definitions and classification of key terms in this new field, and emphasizes the required physical/hard and logical/soft change enablers. The book presents cutting edge technologies and the latest research, as well as future directions to help manufacturers stay competitive. It contains original contributions and results from senior international experts, together with industrial applications. The book serves as a comprehensive reference for professional engineers, managers, and academics in manufacturing, industrial and mechanical engineering.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Hoda A. ElMaraghy, Ph.D., P.Eng., is currently Canada Research Chair in Manufacturing Systems, Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering and Director of the Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS) Centre at the University of Windsor. She is a Fellow of the Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineers (CSME), Fellow of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), Fellow of the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP), Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and an International Director for the American Society for Manufacturing Engineers. Her teaching and research interests are in manufacturing systems design, modeling, flexibility, reconfiguration, control, quality, inspection, assembly, process planning and robotics. Prof. ElMaraghy is one of the pioneering researchers who contributed to the introduction of technologies such as flexible manufacturing and reconfigurable manufacturing, as well as changeable manufacturing. She has acted as a consultant to industry internationally where the results of her research were used to improve the productivity and competitiveness of many manufacturers.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Changeable and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems
Editors: Hoda A. ElMaraghy
Series Title: Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-067-8
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-84882-066-1Published: 09 December 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-84996-822-5Published: 28 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-84882-067-8Published: 23 November 2008
Series ISSN: 1860-5168
Series E-ISSN: 2196-1735
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 406
Topics: Manufacturing, Machines, Tools, Processes, Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk, Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing