Lean Assembly

<p>With examples drawn from aerospace, electronics, household appliance, personal products, and automotive industries, <i>Lean Assembly</i> covers the engineering of assembly operations through:</p><ul> <li>Characterizing the demand in terms of volume by product and product family, component consumption, seasonal variability and life cycle.</li> <li>Matching the physical structure of the shop floor to the demand with the goal of approaching takt-driven production as closely as possible.</li> <li>Working out the details of assembly tasks station by station, including station sizing, tooling, fixturing, operator instructions, part presentation, conveyance between stations, and the geometry of assembly lines as a whole.</li> <li>Incorporating mistake-proofing, successive inspection, and test operations for quality assurance.<p><i>Lean Assembly</i> differs from most other books on lean manufacturing in that it focuses on technical content as a driver for implementation methods. The emphasis is on exactly <i>what</i> should be done. This book should be the "dog-eared" and "penciled-in" resource on every assembly engineer's desk.</p> </li> </ul> PART A: Analysis TechniquesChapter 1: Key issues of assembly operationsChapter 2: Product quantity analysisChapter 3: Trend and seasonality analysisChapter 4: Takt time and capacityPART B: Assembly ConceptsChapter 5: Visualizing the assembly processChapter 6: The concept of the assembly lineChapter 7: Collecting assembly time dataChapter 8: Line balancingPART C: Detailed DesignChapter 9: Assembly station sizingChapter 10: Detailed design of assembly stationsChapter 11: Part presentationChapter 12: Conveyance between stationsChapter 13: Assembly cellsChapter 14: Overall shape of assembly linesPART D: Assembly QualityChapter 15: Preventing picking errorsChapter 16: Inspection, test, and rework operationsBibliographyIndex