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>