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Автор: Dr.Tauseef Aized
Издательство: SCIYO
Год издания: 2010
isbn: 9533071281
Количество страниц: 276
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Размер: 8,0 Мб
Каталожный номер: 62979
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Manufacturing is a vital activity for a society from a strategic point of view. It has a long history in human civilizations and gives a society a definite edge over its competitors. A manufacturing system can be viewed as an arrangement of tasks and processes, properly put together, to transform a selected group of raw materials and semi-finished products to a set of finished products. Historically, manufacturing activities have grown over centuries and their evolution can be divided into three stages. These are craft, mass and lean production methods. The development of electrical devices has led to better control of machines and resulted in machines with greater flexibility. Recent developments in information technology have made it feasible to achieve the purpose of rapid product prototyping, concurrent engineering, flexible and agile automation and computer integrated manufacturing. Many manufacturing system paradigms have been developed throughout the history of manufacturing, such as mass production, just in time manufacturing, lean manufacturing, flexible manufacturing, mass customization, agile manufacturing and others.
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