America's Assembly Line
America's Assembly Line

Author: David E. Nye

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2013-02-15

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0262018713

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From the Model T to today's "lean manufacturing": the assembly line as crucial, yet controversial, agent of social and economic transformation. The mechanized assembly line was invented in 1913 and has been in continuous operation ever since. It is the most familiar form of mass production. Both praised as a boon to workers and condemned for exploiting them, it has been celebrated and satirized. (We can still picture Chaplin's little tramp trying to keep up with a factory conveyor belt.) In America's Assembly Line, David Nye examines the industrial innovation that made the United States productive and wealthy in the twentieth century. The assembly line—developed at the Ford Motor Company in 1913 for the mass production of Model Ts—first created and then served an expanding mass market. It also transformed industrial labor. By 1980, Japan had reinvented the assembly line as a system of “lean manufacturing”; American industry reluctantly adopted the new approach. Nye describes this evolution and the new global landscape of increasingly automated factories, with fewer industrial jobs in America and questionable working conditions in developing countries. A century after Ford's pioneering innovation, the assembly line continues to evolve toward more sustainable manufacturing.

Assembly Line Design
Assembly Line Design

Author: Brahim Rekiek

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-04-21

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 1846281148

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Efficient assembly line design is a problem of considerable industrial importance. Assembly Line Design will be bought by technical personnel working in design, planning and production departments in industry as well as managers in industry who want to learn more about concurrent engineering. This book will also be purchased by researchers and postgraduate students in mechanical, manufacturing or micro-engineering.

Assembly Lines: The Complete Book
Assembly Lines: The Complete Book

Author: Roger Wagner

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2014-11-19

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 1312089407

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Note: This is the second printing. It contains all of the corrections as of May 2017 as well as an updated back cover. Roger Wagner's Assembly Lines articles originally appeared in Softalk magazine from October 1980 to June 1983. The first fifteen articles were reprinted in 1982 in Assembly Lines: The Book. Now, for the first time, all thirty-three articles are available in one complete volume. This edition also contains all of the appendices from the original book as well as new appendices on the 65C02, zero-page memory usage, and a beginner's guide to using the Merlin Assembler. The book is designed for students of all ages: the nostalgic programmer enjoying the retro revolution, the newcomer interested in learning low-level assembly coding, or the embedded systems developer using the latest 65C02 chips from Western Design Center. "Roger Wagner didn't just read the first book on programming the Apple computer-he wrote it." - Steve Wozniak

Assembly Line Planning and Control
Assembly Line Planning and Control

Author: Nick T. Thomopoulos

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-09-11

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 3319013998

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​Assembly Line Planning and Control describes the basic fundamentals of assembly lines for single model lines, mixed model make-to-stock lines, mixed model make-to-order lines and for one-station assembly. The book shows how to select the quantity of units to schedule for a shift duration, compute the number of operators needed on a line, set the conveyor speed, coordinate the main line with sub-assembly lines, assign the work elements to the operators on the line, sequence the models down the line, sequence the jobs down the line, calculate the part and component requirements for a line and for each station, determine the replenish needs of the parts and components from the suppliers, compute the similarity between the models being produced and show applications, use learning curves to estimate time and costs of assembly, and measure the efficiency of the line. The material is timeless and the book will never become obsolete. The author presents solutions with easy-to-understand numerical examples that can be applied to real-life applications.​

Kaizen Assembly
Kaizen Assembly

Author: Chris A. Ortiz

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2006-06-26

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1420006606

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It is easy to learn the philosophy and the concepts of kaizen. It is quite another challenge to translate the philosophy into action. While most books expound on the underlying principles and theory, Kaizen Assembly: Designing, Constructing, and Managing a Lean Assembly Line takes you step-by-step through an actual kaizen event. This approach demon

Rivethead
Rivethead

Author: Ben Hamper

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Published: 2008-12-14

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 0446554030

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The man the Detroit Free Press calls "a blue collar Tom Wolfe" delivers a full-barreled blast of truth and gritty reality in Rivethead, a no-holds-barred journey through the belly of the American industrial beast.

The Foreman on the Assembly Line
The Foreman on the Assembly Line

Author: Charles R. Walker

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-07-06

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1351669184

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Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 THE FOREMAN AND THE PRINCIPLES OF MASS PRODUCTION -- 3 THE FOREMAN AND THE WORKER -- 4 THE FOREMAN AND MANAGEMENT -- 5 THE FOREMAN AND PRODUCTION -- 6 THE FOREMAN AND QUALITY -- 7 THE FOREMAN MEETS EMERGENCIES -- 8 A FOREMAN'S DAY -- 9 PROFILE OF A FOREMAN -- 10 MASS PRODUCTION AND THE INDIVIDUAL -- 11 MASS PRODUCTION AND THE GROUP -- 12 THE PROBLEM IN PERSPECTIVE -- SUPPLEMENT -- A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Assembly Line Balance
Assembly Line Balance

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2018-08-10

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780996872126

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Practical Industrial Engineering in the Documentation, Measurement, and Balance of the Assembly Line

Guide to Assembly Language
Guide to Assembly Language

Author: James T. Streib

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-03-01

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 0857292714

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This book will enable the reader to very quickly begin programming in assembly language. Through this hands-on programming, readers will also learn more about the computer architecture of the Intel 32-bit processor, as well as the relationship between high-level and low-level languages. Topics: presents an overview of assembly language, and an introduction to general purpose registers; illustrates the key concepts of each chapter with complete programs, chapter summaries, and exercises; covers input/output, basic arithmetic instructions, selection structures, and iteration structures; introduces logic, shift, arithmetic shift, rotate, and stack instructions; discusses procedures and macros, and examines arrays and strings; investigates machine language from a discovery perspective. This textbook is an ideal introduction to programming in assembly language for undergraduate students, and a concise guide for professionals wishing to learn how to write logically correct programs in a minimal amount of time.