... and Effect Analysis (FMEA) High integrity products improvements prioritisation Process mapping Low volume manufacturing Six Sigma Process planning Increasingly competitive environments and markets have forced manufacturing organisations to continuously seek improvements in their production...

... be developed to help companies better plan production processes based on the available manufacturing resources. Originality/value Unlike most reported studies addressing either detailed process planning or assembly planning for component parts or component assemblies, this study tackles process planning...

...Raid Al‐Aomar; Bashar El‐Khasawneh; Sinan Obaidat Purpose Time standards are essential to plan and analyze manufacturing processes. A key element of process planning that is not generated from a typical computer‐aided process plan (CAPP) is the process time standards. Generative process planning...

...) performed simulation experiments in production lines with normally distributed processing times and demonstrated that throughput can be improved by appropriately unbalancing work allocations. Assembly lines Simulation Process planning Operations and production management The assembly line...

.... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Service industries Process planning Operations and production management An ongoing “experiment” to watch is the current effort of Dale and Thomas Popcorn: founded in 2002 as “Popcorn, Indiana” with one shop in New York City. It has expanded...

... in the assembly line defined as follows: Equation 2   Equation 3 where: Manufacturing systems Line management Optimization techniques Process planning Modelling The assembly line balancing problem (ALBP) can be divided into two categories: the simple assembly line balancing problem (SALBP...

... and money, thereby enforcing the fact that outsourcing is not one of those activities that a company can put to stop just like that; implying that any company, going into outsourcing, must pay close attention to forming good long‐term relationships with their outsourced partners. Process planning...

... and decision objectives under which their company functions (Figure 1). Operations and production management Operations management Process planning Modelling In today's dynamic and competitive manufacturing environment, making decisions based on “gut feel” is no longer suitable. Manufacturing...

... computer‐aided process planning into the system gives the designer a better understanding of the cost implications of the modified design with respect to manufacturing. The major challenge in implementing of such system is that any changes in the manufacturing facility have to be incorporated...

... metal mold, 3D Keltool and conventional steel mold. The following steps were involved in process selection: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Injection instruments Rapid prototypes Process planning Tooling development for near net shape manufacturing continues to be an area...

... order. If a job is feasible, then the current schedule times of its operations are fixed and cannot be altered by subsequent adjustments. If a job is found infeasible, the following adjusting steps are carried out: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Sequential production Process...

... medicine Process planning China For two decades since the early 1970s, computer‐integrated manufacturing (CIM) has received a great deal of attention from top management of corporations to officials of government departments responsible for industry in many countries worldwide (Zhou and Chuah...

... management Production improvement Continuous improvement Process planning In the wake of increasing global competition, the manufacturing environment has to continuously change in order for businesses to remain productive and efficient. A growing number of businesses are going multinational...

...Millan K. Yeung One of the bottle‐necks of computer numerical control (CNC) machining is the CNC programming. It relies on the experience and skills of the CNC programmer for the generation of the CNC program. The intelligent process‐planning system described in this paper generates a process plan...

...M.C. Kayacan; S.A. Çelik This study includes process planning of prismatic parts by means of an expert system. On the computer controlled machine tools, operation methods and mostly used process types in manufacture are drawn with solid modelling. Feature recognition process is achieved with the “B...

.... Reports the results of the audit in three easy to read tables. Expects the audit to be the first step in any flexible manufacturing design (FMD) effort. Presents a case study. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Flexible manufacturing systems Flexibility Process planning Automation Uncertainty...

... design and process planning. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Failure mode effect analysis Risk management Process planning Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) provides an effective tool for improving product design and process planning by discovering potential product and process failures...

... to the product development in firms, especially in medium‐sized or small companies. Agile production Engineering Modelling Process planning Teamwork In ACE, every agile team member should fully understand the firm’s viewpoints and the users’ requirements. Under the direction of those, he/she works...

...Bhaba R. Sarker; Kun Li Presents a mixed‐integer programme to simultaneously select part routeings and form machine cells in the presence of alternate process plans so that the total cost of operating and intercell material handling is minimized. Demand for parts, machine capacities, number...

...‐oriented manufacturing within the FM‐cell has been assumed (Kato et al., 1993; McMahon et al., 1993). Hence, at the stage of modelling and design for the system, the group technology (GT) method‐based synthesis of part families and their process plans has been made under conditions...