Manufacturing: Design, Production, Automation, and Integration / Edition 1

by Beno Benhabib

Overview

From concept development to final production, this comprehensive text thoroughly examines the design, prototyping, and fabrication of engineering products and emphasizes modern developments in system modeling, analysis, and automatic control. This reference details various management strategies, design methodologies, traditional production techniques, and assembly applications for clear illustration of manufacturing engineering technology in the modern age. Considers a variety of methods for product design including axiomatic design, design for X, group technology, and the Taguchi method, as well as modern production techniques including laser-beam machining, microlithography.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780824742737
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/03/2003
Series:	Manufacturing Engineering and Materials Processing , #63
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	608
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Beno Benhabib is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, as well as Director and Founder of the Computer Integrated Manufacturing Laboratory, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is a senior member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The author of more than 200 research articles, Professor Benhabib received the B.Sc. degree (1980) from Bogazici University, Turkey, the M.Sc. degree (1982) from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, and the Ph.D. degree (1985) from the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Table of Contents

Competitive Manufacturing

Engineering Design

Conceptual Design
Design Methodologies
Computer-Aided Design
Computer-Aided Engineering Analysis and Prototyping

Discrete-Parts Manufacturing

Metal Casting, Powder Processing, and Plastics Molding
Metal Forming
Machining
Modern Manufacturing Techniques
Assembly
Workholding—Fixtures and Jigs
Materials Handling

Automatic Control in Manufacturing

Instrumentation for Manufacturing Control
Control of Production and Assembly Machines
Supervisory Control of Manufacturing Systems
Control of Manufacturing Quality
Index.