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1	Computer-Aided Manufacturing more books like this by Tien-Chien Chang add to wishlist For advanced undergraduate or first-year graduate courses in CAD/CAM, manufacturing systems, and manufacturing control in industrial and mechanical engineering departments. Using a strong science-based and analytical approach, this text provides a modern description of CAM from an engineering perspective to include design specification, process ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| first editions
2	Markets of One: Creating Customer-Unique Value Through Mass Customization more books like this by B Joseph Pine, II (Editor), James H Gilmore (Editor) add to wishlist What does it mean "to dell?" This newly coined business verb means to mass-customize, making products only in response to actual demand. This allows a product to "go direct" to a customer, and it's what Dell Computer does instead of forcing mass-produced computers on its customers. And Dell's not alone. As Editors Jim Gilmore and Joe Pine point ... see all copies from $4.40! new only from $11.41! \| first editions
3	Product Design for Modularity more books like this by Ali K Kamrani, Sa'ed Salhieh add to wishlist The global economy is changing business practices: organizations now fail or succeed based upon their ability to respond quickly to changing customer demands and to utilize new technological innovations. The advantage goes to the firm that can offer greater varieties of new products with higher performance and greater overall appeal. To be ... see all copies from $15.41! new only from $99.39! \| SVS
4	Making Manufacturing Cells Work more books like this by Lee R Nyman add to wishlist This practical guide offers an effective, broad-based approach to flexible manufacturing cells (FMCs) planning and implementation, enabling plant managers and engineers to maximize FMC's ability to enhance product quality and reduce manufacturing time and inventory. Drawing from their own success in helping over 2,000 manufacturers to install FMCs ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $38.39! \| first editions
5	Robot Technology and Applications more books like this by Ulrich Rembold add to wishlist This title introduces designers to hardware and software tools necessary for planning, laying out, and building advanced robot-based manufacturing cells surveying the available technology for creating innovative machines suitable to individual needs. It considers assembly system simulation and task-oriented programme. see all copies from $6.54! new only from $49.98! \| SVS
6	Flexible Robot Dynamics and Controls more books like this by Rush D Robinett, III, John Feddema, G Richard Eisler add to wishlist This volume will guide professional engineers whose disciplines include: robotics, controls, mechanical, electrical, computer science and electrical, etc, to a better, or first understanding of how to develop and control robotics or other systems with inherent or desirable structural flexibility. Furthermore, senior and graduate mechanical, ... see all copies from $32.29! new only from $60.10! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Computer-Aided Assembly Planning more books like this by A Delchambre add to wishlist The methodologies developed in this book deal with the integration of the assembly process from the initial design of the product through to production. In such an integrated system assembly planning is a key asset. The book begins with a classification of existing systems of automatic generation of assembly sequences. Automatic assembly planning ... see all copies from $6.38! new only from $7.00! \| SVS
8	In-process quality control for manufacturing more books like this by Barkman add to wishlist see all copies from $26.28! new only from $51.34! \| SVS
9	Forcing the Factory of the Future: Cybernation and Societal Institutions more books like this by Bryn Jones add to wishlist Is computerised production transforming work roles, as recent debates about flexible specialisation and post-Fordist manufacturing suggest? This book focuses on the key case of metalworking batch production in Britain, Italy, Japan and the USA. Looking at technological, political and social developments from a comparative perspective, it suggests ... see all copies from $12.47! new only from $108.95! \| first editions
10	Mass Customization: Challenges and Solutions more books like this by Thorsten Blecker (Editor), Gerhard Friedrich (Editor) add to wishlist "Mass Customization: Challenges and Solutions" defines the parameters of the emerging business strategy, mass customization. The book will cover the main categories of the area with a systematic examination of the following themes: manufacturing systems and mass customization, supply chain management and mass customization, and information systems ... see all copies from $81.05! new only from $81.06! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	An Introduction to Computer Aided Production Management more books like this by Stephen J Childe add to wishlist The control of manufacturing operations is of crucial importance in industry. The correct regulation of manufacturing activities makes the difference between meeting and missing customer requirements. Nowadays computerised solutions are available as an aid to production management. However, many companies proceed to use sophisticated computer ... see all copies from $18.00! new only from $50.01! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Pathways to Agility: Mass Customization in Action more books like this by John Oleson add to wishlist The first practical guide to a revolutionary new approach that top manufacturing firms, world-wide, are using to win the war for market share. One of the biggest evolutionary leaps in manufacturing since the assembly line, agile manufacturing provides an alternative to the age-old "one-size-fits-all" manufacturing model. This breakthrough book ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.99! \| signed copies \| SVS
13 view cover	Agile Documentation: A Pattern Guide to Producing Lightweight Documents for Software Projects more books like this by Andreas Ruping add to wishlist Software documentation forms the basis for all communication relating to a software project. To be truly effective and usable, it should be based on what needs to be known. Agile Documentation provides sound advice on how to produce lean and lightweight software documentation. It will be welcomed by all project team members who want to cut out the ... see all copies from $26.57! new only from $26.57!
14 view cover	Mass Customization: A Supply Chain Approach more books like this by Charu Chandra, Ali K Kamrani add to wishlist "Mass Customization: A Supply Chain Approach" is a text on the emerging topic of mass customization in manufacturing. The contributed chapters in this book provide a unified treatment to the topic by offering coverage in four main categories - concepts and current state of research; problem solving frameworks, models, and methodologies; supportive ... see all copies from $100.00! new only from $100.00! \| first editions \| SVS
15	Customer-Driven Manufacturing more books like this by Johan C Wortmann, D R Muntslag, P J M Timmermans add to wishlist This book provides an overview of theory, methods and techniques for the design, redesign and operation of customer order driven manufacturing. The topic is covered using four representative case studies. This book should be of interest to manufacturing and industrial engineers, researchers and graduate students, production managers. see all copies from $164.00! new only from $164.16!
16 view cover	Information and Management Systems for Product Customization more books like this by Thorsten Blecker, Gerhard Friedrich, Bernd Kaluza add to wishlist In today's competitive environment, manufacturing and service companies are intensifying their customization processes. Customization means companies must meet the challenge of providing individualized products and services, without introducing high costs. Therefore, companies must address both customization and cost factors to gain a competitive ... see all copies from $47.98! new only from $47.98!
17 view cover	Petri net synthesis for discrete event control of manufacturing systems more books like this by Zhou, DiCesare add to wishlist "Petri Net Synthesis for Discrete Event Control of Manufacturing Systems" develops two essential resource-sharing concepts: parallel and sequential mutual exclusions and theoretical results in Petri synthesis. A parallel mutual exclusion (PME) is defined to model a resource shared by independent distributed processes, and a sequential mutual ... see all copies from $173.06! new only from $173.06! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Flexible Manufacturing Systems in Practice: Design: Analysis and Simulation more books like this by Joseph Talavage, R Hannam, Talavage Talavage add to wishlist see all copies from $98.00! new only from $191.01! \| SVS
19	Practice of Petri nets in manufacturing more books like this by DiCesare add to wishlist This book introduces the basic theory of Petri nets and then presents the most important properties of Petri nets relevant to manufacturing systems. The use of Petri nets and their propertiees are demonstrated and illustrated for the preliminary design, in other words the functional specifications, modelling and evaluation of manufacturing systems ... see all copies from $97.00! new only from $103.00! \| first editions
20 view cover	Modeling, Simulation, and Control of Fle more books like this by MengChu Zhou add to wishlist One critical barrier leading to successful implementation of flexible manufacturing and related automated systems is the ever-increasing complexity of their modelling, analysis, simulation, and control. Research and development over the last three decades has provided new theories and graphical tools, based on Petri nets and related concepts for ... see all copies from $65.44! new only from $82.67!
21 view cover	The Agile Virtual Enterprise: Cases, Metrics, Tools more books like this by H T Goranson add to wishlist This text introduces the emerging concept of the agile virtual organization and provides a metric to help executives assess organizations by its many important criteria. see all copies from $43.85! new only from $57.87!
22	Managing Advanced Manufacturing Technology: The Challenge of the Fifth Wave more books like this by J R Bessant add to wishlist see all copies from $17.92! first editions
23 view cover	From Filing and Fitting to Flexible Manufacturing more books like this by Roger E Bohn, Ramchandran Jaikumar, Ramchandran Jalkumar add to wishlist From Filing to Fitting in Flexible Manufacturing is based on a well-known but previously unpublished monograph by Ramchandran Jaikumar on the nature and history of manufacturing. The development of mass manufacturing ranks as one of the most important contributors to human living conditions ever - of the same magnitude as agriculture and modern ... see all copies from $72.16! new only from $72.16! \| SVS
24 view cover	Mass Customization Information Systems in Business more books like this by Thorsten Blecker add to wishlist Mass customization is a business strategy that aims at satisfying an individual customer's needs with near mass production efficiency. "Mass Customization Information Systems in Business" provides original and innovative research on IT systems for mass customization. It is a wide-ranging reference collection of chapters describing the solutions, ... see all copies from $22.33! new only from $22.33! \| SVS
25	Flexible Manufacturing more books like this by David J. Parrish add to wishlist Although the concept of flexible manufacturing has been around for over twenty years, applications have until recently been expensive and unique. Developments over the last five years, however, have made widespread applications of flexible manufacturing systems achievable. This book is intended to inform industry's decision-makers of the extent of ... see all copies from $5.30!

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