Manufacturing excellence : the competitive edge / T. Pfeifer ... [et al.].
Contributor(s): Pfeifer, Tilo.
Material type: BookPublisher: London ; New York : Chapman & Hall, 1994Edition: 1st English language ed.Description: viii, 571 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0412567806 .Subject(s): Production engineering | Production management | Quality controlDDC classification: 658.5Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 658.5 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00015930 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This book presents the state-of-the-art in manufacturing engineering from the German perspective. Through the evaluation and analysis of the following 5 key issues: 1. Business Strategies. 2.Product Development. 3.Manufacturing Systems and Processes. 4.Production Plans. 5.The Environment, new manufacturing strategies to achieve a competitive edge are presented. The text is comprehensively supported by industrial examples from leading German and multi-national companies.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 531-564) and index.
Part One: Business strategies -- Competitive strategies for a global market -- Quality management as a corporate strategy -- Strategies for the introduction of a quality management system -- Part Two: Product development -- Supplier involvement in product development - risks and potentials -- The design workstation of the future - from initial design to NC programming -- Innovative software technologies for quality management -- Rapid prototyping: the way ahead -- Part Three: Production -- Resource-orientated design of production systems -- The key of efficient process and manufacturing sequences - technological development and innovation -- Superior tools as a basis for tomorrow's manufacturing -- Integrated quality inspections -- Part Four: Production plants -- Fast-precise-clean: the machine tool in the context of conflicting interests of economy and ecology -- The open controller - key element of high-performance production facilities -- Robotics in production systems -- Part Five: Environment -- Cooling lubricants - the ecological challenge facing production engineering -- Strategic cost/benefit evaluation of product development, production and waste disposal.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface
- Business strategies: competitive process and quality management
- Product development: reducing development cycles with respect to market and manufacturing
- Production: resource-oriented organisation of production processes
- Production plants: meeting ecological and economic requirements
- Environment: ecological aspects in production technology
- Appendix A Members of the working groups
- Appendix B References
- Appendix C
- Index