This volume offers management controlling tools to enhance communication with control engineers regarding technological decisions. It highlights that traditional manufacturing systems often lack a profit-oriented approach, leaving management reliant on experts at each stage. The book demonstrates that using its tools can significantly improve efficiency rates by 25 to 60%.
The book explores the evolution and challenges of key innovations in industrial management, such as Integrated Manufacturing Systems, Group Technology, Numerical Control, and Computer Aided Design. It delves into the expectations and disappointments associated with these advancements, highlighting common pitfalls that have led to their decline. Additionally, the author proposes strategies for revitalizing these methods to ensure their long-term effectiveness and value in modern manufacturing practices.
Industrial management focuses on implementing policies to achieve optimal returns on investment while efficiently utilizing resources. Profitability is essential, yet modern manufacturing often overlooks this primary goal. The manufacturing process involves various disciplines, each with distinct objectives and perspectives, such as marketing assessing customer appeal, designers ensuring product functionality, and finance evaluating investments. Each discipline strives for optimization based on its specific criteria, highlighting the complexity of coordinating efforts across functions to achieve overall success in manufacturing.
A brief explanation of the concept of concurrent engineering introduces this book. It resumes with papers concerning basic aspects of the technology and with discussions of advanced applications within an industrial framework. Assessments are also made of the relationship of concurrent engineering with specific phases of manufacturing processes, from design and development to production. The contribution of representatives from many countries affords an international consideration of the subject, including the seeking of common denominators within the varying approaches of scientists and professionals from different industries and territories. This book should be of interest not only to researchers, engineers and students, but also to production managers and other professionals concerned with new developments for the further implementation of concurrent engineering in industry.