Manufacturing Process Design and Optimization

Technometrics

...very successful...excellent page layout, careful choice of terminology, clearly written sentences, and sufficiently detailed examples.... "...does a very good job of instructing the reader in the topics that were covered....[notably] the material addressing the impact of manufacturing design decisions on process control and minimizing variation.

Booknews

An introduction for practicing engineers and manufacturing supervisory personnel to the basic concepts of process design, problem solving, and process optimization. Avoids complex mathematical relationships to focus on the concepts of improvement and their application in real situations. Explains how specific designs introduce variation into manufactured products, and presents techniques to minimize such variations. Describes simple methods of organization, presentation of data that most operations already track, and observation for identifying and solving problems. Also introduces basic experimental design principles that can increase the understanding the relationship between the inputs and outputs of manufacturing operations. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.