Expectations and Disappointments of Industrial Innovations, 1st ed. 2017 Lecture Notes in Management and Industrial Engineering Series

The Integrated Manufacturing System (IMS), Group Technology, Numerical Control, and Computer Aided Design (CAD) were four outstanding innovations that were one-time milestones of scientific industrial management. This book describes the expectations and disappointments of the common pitfalls of these ingenious ideas, which leads to understanding of their gradual disappearing, and proposes a way to restore these methods for long term utility and value.

Innovation is a driver for the development of new products and production methods. It should be an integral part of a system and not pursued for its own sake. This volume shows, explains, and remedies this by treating these interesting examples.  

Preface.- Chapter  1 Introduction.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 Remarkable Innovation: Mass Production.- 1.3 Batch Production.- 1.4 Improving Productivity  of Batch  Production.- 1.5 Favorite Innovation: The Search For Production Efficiency.- 1.6 Conclusions.- Chapter 2 Group Technology - Remarkable And Destructive Innovations.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Definition of Group Technology.- 2.3 Expectations of Group Technology.- 2.4 Disappointments in Group Technology.- 2.5 Summary.- Chapter  3 Numerical Control -- Remarkable Innovation.- 3.1 Numerical Control (NC).- 3.2 Increased Processing Time.- 3.3 Auxiliary Manufacturing Hardware.- 3.4 Remarkable Successes and Disappointments.- Chapter 4 Integrated Manufacturing Systems.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 Traditional Manufacturing Approach.- 4.3 Computer Integrated Manufacturing.- 4.4 Overview of Manufacturing Proposal Methods.- 4.5 Summary.- Chapter 5 Analysis and Restoration.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 Process Planner Activities.- 5.3 CAD For Manufacturing Support.- 5.4 Group Technology.- 5.5 Numerical Control.- 5.6 Manufacturing.- Index.