Group Technology

Release on 2012-12-06 | by Inyong Ham

technology to production management from the standpoints of production engineering, management science, and systems engineering. Based on the results of this cooperative research, this book is intended to describe a group technology ...

Author: Inyong Ham
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9789400949768
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 208
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Mass productio!l and mass consumption, so far considered virtues in a free economic soceity, have changed. Various problems have occurred including economic stagnation, energy crisis, shortage of material resources, prolifera tion of pollution, lack of skilled labor, rapid changes of product design, technical innovation, and others. Moreover, individual manufacturing firms must take steps to adopt multi-product, small-lot-sized (batch type) produc tion as a type of production in order to adapt themselves to a market movement characterized by a diversified and specialty-oriented society and a short product life cycle. The number of manufacturing firms worldwide that use a type of multi-product, small-lot-sized production is expected to increase. This is so even in the United States, which has been said to be a country of mass production. Multi-product, small-lot-sized production has been considered to be a milestone to flow-type mass production, which has been thought to be the most effective production system. Intensive efforts have been made to investigate mass production systems from both theoretical and practical viewpoints. Few studies have been made for multi-product, small-lot-sized production (batch-type manufacturing). Considering the present business circumstances faced with various difficulties, it is strongly required to establish some theories useful for making practically effective and flexible multi-product, small-lot-sized production systems. Several effective approaches to the batch-type manufacturing systems have been developed. Group technology (GT) is one such method that has steadily obtained great interest from progressive manufacturing firms all over the world.

Language: en
Pages: 208

Group Technology

Authors: Inyong Ham, Katsundo Hitomi, Teruhiko Yoshida

Categories: Business & Economics

Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-06 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Language: en
Pages: 164

Group Technology

Authors: E.A. Arn

Categories: Technology & Engineering

Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-06 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Group Technology (GT) as a manufacturing concept has gained steady interest within the machine building industry all over the world. Originally it was used more or less only in the so-called parts family manufacturing concept. With growing opportunities for using the computer in the design process, operating planning and layout

Language: en
Pages: 550

Group Technology and Cellular Manufacturing

Authors: Nallan C. Suresh, John M. Kay

Categories: Business & Economics

Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-06 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Group Technology and Cellular Manufacturing (GT/CM) have been widely-researched areas in the past 15 years and much progress has been made in all branches of GT/CM. Resulting from this research activity has been a proliferation of techniques for part-machine grouping, engineering data bases, expert system-based design methods for identifying part