Manufacturing Process Design and Costing: An Integrated Approach

by Simmy Grewal

Overview

Contract manufacturing is growing rapidly worldwide and this is creating a need for innovative manufacturing information systems that can effectively integrate process design and costing data in order to allow 'what if' scenario assessments to be done rapidly. Manufacturing Process Design and Costing details the development of such an information system with a focus on the data schema and user interface design. The software facilitates integration of part manufacture, assembly planning and assessment of associated costs in a concurrent manner. The benefits this methodology has provided to industry and its usefulness as a teaching aid are outlined. Manufacturing Process Design and Costing illustrates effective integration of the variables involved. A novel user interface design allows the capture of process know-how, resulting in the decoupling of process design knowledge from personnel turnover issues, hence ensuring the maximisation of an organisation's ability to respond to business opportunities. Manufacturing Process Design and Costing is written for professionals in the manufacturing industry and academics. Simmy Grewal is the founder and managing director of Simsoft Knowledge Systems Pty Ltd. The company was founded in 1998 to commercialise the results of research he led at the Australian Government research agency CSIRO. From 2003 to 2005 he also held the position of Professor of Product and Process Design under the Distinguished Professionals Scheme in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where he lectured and researched in the area of process design and knowledge management. His career prior to joining CSIRO was in academia and industry in the UK and Ireland.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780857290908
Publisher:	Springer London
Publication date:	12/10/2010
Edition description:	2011
Pages:	70
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.24(d)

About the Author

Simmy Grewal is the founder and managing director of Simsoft Knowledge Systems Pty Ltd (www.simsoftks.com). The company was founded in 1998 to commercialise the results of research he led at the Australian Government research agency CSIRO. From 2003 to 2005 he also held the position of Professor of Product and Process Design under the Distinguished Professionals Scheme in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where he lectured and researched in the area of process design and knowledge management. His career prior to joining CSIRO was in academia and industry in the UK and Ireland. He can be contacted at : [e-mail].

Table of Contents

1 Product and Process Design 1

1.1 Introduction 1

1.2 Product and Process Design 1

1.2.1 Product Planning 1

1.2.2 Part Planning 3

1.2.3 Assembly Planning 4

1.3 Manufacturing System Design 5

1.3.1 Workstations 5

1.3.2 Layout Planning 8

1.3.3 Throughput Strategy 8

References 9

2 Practice and Procedures 11

2.1 Introduction 11

2.2 Practice 12

2.2.1 Methods Engineering 13

2.3 Procedures 14

2.3.1 Constructive Method 14

2.3.2 Variant Method 14

2.3.3 Generative Method 14

2.4 Costing 15

2.4.1 Traditional Approach 15

2.4.2 Parametric Approach 15

2.4.3 Integrated Approach 16

References 16

3 Schema Design 17

3.1 Introduction 17

3.2 Process Knowledge 18

3.3 Process Information 18

3.4 Process Data 19

3.5 Data Relationships 20

3.6 Schema Design 21

References 22

4 Heuristic Approach 23

4.1 Introduction 23

4.2 Part Planning Process 24

4.2.1 Part Attributes 24

4.2.2 Manufacturing Task Sequence 25

4.2.3 Task Analysis 26

4.3 Assembly Planning Process 27

4.3.1 Assembly Attributes 27

4.3.2 Task Sequence 29

4.3.3 Task Analysis 29

4.4 Integrated Approach to Part and Assembly Planning 30

4.5 Process Knowledge 30

4.6 Inferencing of Process Knowledge 32

4.7 Networking of Process Knowledge 33

5 Tutorial on Part Planning 35

5.1 Introduction 35

5.2 Material Data 36

5.3 Part Data 37

5.4 Equipment Data 38

5.5 Task Sequence 42

5.6 Task Analysis 43

5.7 Results 46

6 Tutorial on Assembly Planning 47

6.1 Introduction 47

6.2 Assembly Attributes 47

6.3 Task Sequence 49

6.4 Task Analysis 51

6.5 Results 59

7 Industrial Case Studies 61

7.1 Introduction 61

7.2 Evaporative Humidifier 61

7.2.1 Handling Attributes 62

7.2.2 Assembly Sequence 62

7.2.3 Task Analysis 63

7.3 Costing of Injection Moulding Tool 65

7.3.1 Part Planning 67

7.3.2 Tool Assembly 68

7.4 Summary 68