It is essential for the traditionally industrialised countries to
innovate in manu facturing to survive in the increasingly
competitive world marketplace. This challenge coupled with the
increasing application of computers has led to significant changes
in the techniques applied in manufacturing. This book seeks to
introduce those technologies that are being applied in discrete
parts manufacturing. In the technIcal press there have been many
phrases and acronyms coined to describe these technologies
including numerical control (NC), machining centres, computer aided
manufacture (CAM), computer integrated manufacture (CIM),
simulation, robotics, flexible manufacturing systems (FMS),
automatic assembly, factory automation, Kanban, just in time (JIT),
manufacturing automation protocol (MAP), advanced manufacturing
technology (AMT), etc. The book is intended to introduce senior
undergraduates, postgraduate students and practising engineers to
the principles of these individual technologies and their
integration into complete, automated, programmable manufacturing
facilities and systems. It is hoped that this will allow the reader
to have a critical perspective of the market place and potential
solutions to his own current or future problems. It is also
intended to indicate how the complete manufacturing facility can be
viewed as a system. The book does not address the related areas of
Computer Aided Design (CAD), scheduling, production control and
current speculative research at any significant level. It is
impossible to do justice, in this short book, to such large subject
areas which, without doubt, demand books in their own right. A book
such as this is still necessarily wide-ranging and occasionally
superficial."
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