Everyone involved in gear design and production will benefit from the practical guidelines in this book. Refer to it on-the-job for tips on process selection, process planning, cycle time formulas and calculations, speeds and feeds, and volume considerations. This book also includes many examples to make your process planning and cycle time estimating easier.
A complete inventory of the elements needed to improve your hand-deburring operations. Learn how to calculate true costs, define customer requirements, and understand when hand deburring is the right answer.
Extensively illustrated, showing you hundreds of proven designs and illustrations, this book explains dozens of different types of fixtures. Sixteen chapters show you both basic principles and advanced designs and applications for today's flexible systems and numerically controlled machines.
Industrial Painting and Powdercoating: Principles and Practice
Inspection and Measurement in Manufacturing
Lean 9001: Battle for the Arctic Rose
Lean Manufacturing for the Small Shop, Second Edition is your how-to guide for shortening delivery times, eliminating waste, improving quality, and reducing costs.
Expanded, updated, and more relevant than ever, this bestselling business classic by two internationally renowned management analysts describes a business system for the twenty-first century that supersedes the mass production system of Ford, the financial control system of Sloan, and the strategic system of Welch and GE. It is based on the Toyota (lean) model, which combines operational excellence with value-based strategies to produce steady growth through a wide range of economic conditions.
Low-Cost Jigs, Fixtures and Gages for Limited Production