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Figures | p. xi |
Tables | p. xvii |
A guided tour | p. 1 |
Analysis techniques | p. 3 |
Key issues of assembly operations | p. 5 |
What is assembly? | p. 6 |
Scope of this book | p. 6 |
Assembly = assembly and test | p. 6 |
Factors in assembly performance | p. 8 |
Part supply | p. 8 |
Assembly work design | p. 9 |
Examples | p. 10 |
Waste in assembly work | p. 11 |
Recognizing waste in assembly work | p. 11 |
Eliminating assembly waste | p. 13 |
Product quantity analysis | p. 15 |
Purpose | p. 16 |
The concept of P-Q analysis | p. 17 |
Difference with Group Technology | p. 18 |
Bill of materials analysis for mixed-flow lines | p. 20 |
Order profiling for custom assembly | p. 25 |
Trend and seasonality analysis | p. 27 |
Purpose | p. 28 |
Responding to demand variability over time | p. 29 |
Data aggregation | p. 30 |
Making the sales data talk | p. 32 |
Demand variability upstream in the supply chain | p. 37 |
Conclusions | p. 39 |
Takt time and capacity | p. 41 |
What is the takt time? | p. 41 |
Definition of the term | p. 42 |
Design takt time and operation takt time | p. 44 |
Common mistakes about takt time | p. 45 |
Why takt time matters | p. 46 |
Global and local performance | p. 48 |
Takt time, labor requirements, and line design | p. 50 |
The minimum required number of assemblers | p. 50 |
Assembler job design issues with short takt times | p. 52 |
Assembler job design issues with long takt times | p. 55 |
Assembly concepts | p. 59 |
Visualizing the assembly process | p. 61 |
Needs and evaluation criteria for visualization tools | p. 62 |
The problem with facility blueprints | p. 63 |
Lists and assembly master tables | p. 67 |
Abstract flow diagrams and their limitations | p. 70 |
Layout diagrams with flows | p. 75 |
Two-dimensional diagrams | p. 75 |
Three-dimensional drawings | p. 78 |
Integration of text and drawings | p. 79 |
Photographs | p. 79 |
Impact of digital photography | p. 79 |
Shop floor photography guidelines | p. 80 |
Video recordings | p. 81 |
Cardboard mock-ups | p. 81 |
Discrete-event simulations | p. 82 |
The concept of the assembly line | p. 85 |
What is an assembly line? | p. 86 |
Bench assembly versus the assembly line | p. 87 |
Why assembly lines are still controversial | p. 88 |
Comparing bench assembly with line assembly | p. 89 |
Exceptions: where the bench still wins | p. 92 |
Assembly lines, assembly cells, and line segments | p. 93 |
Assembly and subassembly | p. 97 |
All assembly work done in one single line | p. 97 |
Final assembly line with subassembly feeder lines | p. 98 |
Modular assembly | p. 99 |
Pros and cons of subassembly/feeder lines | p. 101 |
Collecting assembly time data | p. 103 |
Why this needs attention | p. 103 |
Data collection methods | p. 104 |
Current status of time and motion studies in manufacturing | p. 105 |
Predetermined time standards in the automobile industry | p. 105 |
MTM and MOST | p. 107 |
Time studies with video recordings | p. 111 |
Line balancing | p. 113 |
Assembly line balancing | p. 114 |
Rebalancing a dedicated line | p. 115 |
Multiproduct lines with batch versus leveled sequencing | p. 119 |
Balancing assembly time among products on a mixed-flow line | p. 121 |
Deliberate imbalances | p. 122 |
Detailed design | p. 125 |
Assembly station sizing | p. 127 |
Issues with assembly station sizing | p. 128 |
Assembly stations for small products | p. 128 |
Assembly stations for large products | p. 132 |
Ergonomics and safety | p. 136 |
Standing versus sitting | p. 136 |
Work height and assembler height | p. 139 |
Stations with required dwell times | p. 140 |
Detailed design of assembly stations | p. 143 |
Issues with assembly station details | p. 144 |
Assembly fixtures | p. 144 |
Fixtures for manual assembly | p. 144 |
Fixtures for mechanized or automated assembly | p. 149 |
In-line mechanical automation | p. 151 |
Handheld tools | p. 152 |
Tools attached to the station and not to the assembler | p. 152 |
Tool positioning and orientation | p. 154 |
Assembly instructions | p. 157 |
Instruction sheets | p. 157 |
Contents of instruction sheets for manual assembly | p. 158 |
Content of instruction sheets for mechanized assembly | p. 161 |
Instruction sheets for mixed-flow assembly | p. 162 |
Authoring instruction sheets | p. 163 |
Use of information technology | p. 163 |
Visible management | p. 164 |
Self-explanatory devices, markings, and color codes | p. 164 |
Tower lights, stop ropes, and other types of andons | p. 166 |
Counters and production monitors | p. 168 |
Part presentation | p. 171 |
Scope and purpose | p. 172 |
Part presentation requirements | p. 172 |
Controversies about part presentation | p. 175 |
Key principles of part presentation | p. 176 |
Removal of packaging materials before delivery | p. 176 |
Location within arm's reach of the assembler | p. 178 |
Orientation | p. 179 |
Adjustments to specific part characteristics | p. 181 |
Matching quantities | p. 182 |
Containers with dunnage for counting | p. 184 |
Kitting versus line-side supply | p. 185 |
Single-piece presentation and water spiders | p. 186 |
Single-piece presentation | p. 187 |
Water spiders and supermarkets | p. 189 |
Conveyance between stations | p. 193 |
Issues with conveyance systems | p. 194 |
Goals for the conveyance system | p. 196 |
A few types of conveyance systems | p. 197 |
Unpowered conveyance | p. 197 |
Powered conveyance | p. 199 |
Assembly cells | p. 201 |
About assembly cells | p. 202 |
The motivation for cell conversion | p. 203 |
Part supply to assembly cells | p. 206 |
Range of applicability of the U-shape | p. 208 |
Pseudo U-shaped cells | p. 210 |
Overall shape of assembly lines | p. 211 |
Beyond cells | p. 211 |
Car and related assembly lines | p. 212 |
Airplane assembly lines | p. 218 |
Assembly quality | p. 221 |
Preventing picking errors | p. 223 |
About this chapter | p. 224 |
Mistake-proofing assembly operations | p. 225 |
Approaches to automatic identification | p. 226 |
Using kit pallets and product fixtures to prevent mistakes | p. 228 |
Mistake-proofing lineside picking | p. 231 |
Mistake-proofing the kitting process | p. 235 |
From stores to the line | p. 237 |
Storage and retrieval | p. 238 |
Naming items to avoid confusion | p. 240 |
From the supplier to the dock | p. 242 |
Inspection, test, and rework operations | p. 243 |
The issues of inspection, test, and rework | p. 244 |
The literature | p. 246 |
The quality control literature | p. 246 |
The lean manufacturing literature | p. 246 |
The general literature on assembly | p. 247 |
Is self-inspection possible? | p. 247 |
Inspection and test sequencing | p. 249 |
Sequencing by decreasing figure of merit and its limitations | p. 250 |
Sequencing by induction | p. 252 |
Testing multiple units at once | p. 254 |
Designing automatic binning operations | p. 256 |
Rework operations | p. 257 |
Self-inflicted rework | p. 258 |
Rework operations | p. 259 |
Bibliography | p. 263 |
Books in English | p. 264 |
Books in Japanese | p. 265 |
Books in German | p. 265 |
Books in French | p. 266 |
Index | p. 267 |
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