Working With Machines

by Baudin; Michel

• ISBN13: 9781563273292
• ISBN10: 1563273292
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-04-20
• Publisher: Productivity Pr

Summary

How do companies in high labor cost countries manage to remain competitive? In western manufacturing, the more manual a process, the more severe the competitive handicap of high wages. Full automation would make labor costs irrelevant but remain impractical in most industries. Most successful manufacturing processes in advanced economies are neither fully manual nor fully automatic -- they involve interactions between small numbers of highly skilled people and machines that account for the bulk of the manufacturing costs and thereby remain competitive. In Working with Machines: The Nuts and Bolts of Lean Operations With Jidoka, author Michel Baudin explains how performance differences that can be observed from one factory to the next are due to the way people use the machines -- from the human interfaces of individual machines to the linking of machines into cells, the management of monuments and common services, automation, maintenance, and production control.

Table of Contents

Human - machine interfaces	p. 9
Using machine controls	p. 11
Performing operations on machines	p. 35
Understanding the process	p. 51
Programming machines	p. 63
Machine cells	p. 85
Cellular manufacturing with machines	p. 87
Design and implementation of a machine cell	p. 107
From operator job design to task assignment	p. 133
Cell automation and chaku-chaku line	p. 155
Grouping cells into focused factories	p. 173
Common services and monuments	p. 185
Working with monuments	p. 187
Setup time reduction	p. 215
Automation	p. 243
The lean approach to automation	p. 245
Improving legacy automated systems	p. 257
Machine maintenance	p. 271
Machine and facilities maintenance	p. 273
Improving maintenance	p. 287
Maintenance information systems	p. 309
Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)	p. 323
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