Assembly processes : finishing, packaging, and automation /
Crowson, Richard.
Boca Raton, Fla. ; London : CRC/Taylor & Francis,
2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
PRODUCT DESIGN AND FACTORY DEVELOPMENT -- Product development -- Introduction to product development -- Concurrent engineering -- Quality  function deployment -- Design for assembly -- Rapid prototyping -- Product design -- Introduction to product design -- Design for machining -- Design for casting and forging -- Design for sheet metal -- Process selection -- The deductive machine troubleshooting process -- Systematic design engineering -- Machine debug process -- Error budgeting -- Engineering case studies used in the debug process -- Debugging machines through burn-in analysis -- Factory requirements -- Introduction to facilities requirements -- General factory requirements -- Requirements of the manufacturing process -- Requirements for the flow of materials -- Analysis of factory equipment needs -- Implementation plan for factory and equipment -- Factory design -- introduction to factory design and construction -- The twenty-first-century manufacturing facility -- Site selection -- The building program -- Project design -- Construction -- Human elements in the factory -- Introduction to the human elements in the factory -- Ergonomics -- Worker's compensation -- Industrial safety -- Industrial hygiene -- Computers and controllers -- introduction to computers and controllers -- Mainframe systems -- Minicomputers -- Personal computers -- Networks -- Computer-integrated enterprise archiecture -- Process controllers -- human interface to the computer-integrated enterprise -- CAD/CAM -- Extended enterprise.
FACTORY OPERATIONS -- Practical cost estimating for manufacturing -- Understanding the estimate requirements -- Developing the manufacturing plan -- The concept-type cost estimate -- Learning curves -- Material and subcontracting estimating -- The manufacturing support labor costs -- Summarizing the elements of cost -- Product tooling and equipment -- Introduction to tooling and equipment -- Planning and definition -- Design, documentation, and control -- Construction and maintenance -- Hand tools -- Tooling for parts fabrication -- Tooling for assembly -- Computer-aided process planning -- An observation -- The challenge of current manufacturing trends -- Responding effectively to the key issues -- The evolution of the manufacturing engineering department -- Getting to a process plan: what must happen first? -- Variant vs. generative planning -- The first 15 years of CAPP -- Some examples of what is really happening -- Where to go from here? -- An afterword on group technology -- Work measurement -- Why work measurement? -- Methods of measuring work -- methods of developing, administering, and maintaining time standards -- Most work measurements systems -- Application of time standards -- Summary and future trends -- Control of production and materials -- Intorduction to control of production and materials -- Capacity planning and simulation -- Scheduling -- Just in time -- Theory of constraints -- Material requirements planning systems -- inventory management -- Control of Quality -- introduction to control of quality -- Quality engineering and planning -- Inspection -- Testing -- Reliability -- Cost of quality -- Data management -- Statistical process control.
PARTS FABRICATION -- Principles of structural mechanics -- Introduction to mechanics -- Definitions of force and stress -- Types of stresses -- Hooke's Law -- Moments -- Beams -- Long-column failure -- Stresses in pressure vessels -- materials Characteristics of metals -- Intoduction to materials characteristics of metals -- Fundamentals of metallurgy -- Ferrous metals -- Nonferrous metals: Aluminum -- Nonferrous metals: Magnesiem -- Conventional fabrication process -- Introduction to conventional fabrication processes -- Sheet metal fabrication processes -- Machining -- Extrusion and forging processes -- Casting and molding processes -- Nontraditional machining methods -- Introduction to nontraditional machining methods -- Thermal removal processes -- Chemical machining -- Mechanical processes -- Burnishing -- nonmetals: plastics -- introduction to plastics -- Definitions -- Designing with plastics -- Material and process selection -- Tooling -- Composite manufacturing -- Introduction and background -- Fabrication with prepreg broadgoods -- Fabrication with continuous fibers -- Fabrication with chopped fibers -- Finishing -- Introduction to finishing -- Corrosion -- Cleaning and preparing metals for finishing -- Electroplating -- Coatings.
ASSEMBLY PROCESSES -- Manual assembly -- Intorduction to manual assembly -- Assembly work instructions -- Assembly operation sequences -- Workstation and line layout -- Manufacturing methods analysis -- Principles of motion economy -- Standard manufacturing processes -- Special manufacturing instructions -- Assembly automation -- intoduction to assembly automation -- Assembly machines in the factory -- Basic automation concepts -- Types of automated assembly machines -- Motion systems -- Justifying automation -- Software interfaces to assembly automation -- Design for automated production -- Automated material handling -- Electronics assembly -- Introduction to electronics assembly -- Typical package architecture -- Elementary subassemblies -- Chip carrier assemblies -- Hybrid microelectonics assemblies -- Printed wiring board assemblies -- System integration.
Assembly-line methods.
Production planning.