Automation: Goods

Index

Objective: To demonstrate the manufacturing innovations are frequently processes that take decades to become commonplace. The current trend to automation is not such displacement of labor by machines. It is the shift from production for inventory to production for final demand. Each manufacturing innovation generally requires a complete reorganization of the work to become efficient. The human factors are just as important to success as the technical factors.

• Segment 1: Index
• Segment 2: Replace
  • Overview
  • 19th Century Innovation: Replaceable Parts
• Segment 3: Design, Analysis
  • Manufacturing
  • Steps in discrete manufacturing
  • Design and Analysis
    • General trends in CAD/CAE software
    • Specific Industries
    • CAD/CAE as in innovation
• Segment 4: Parts, Flow
  • Parts manufacturing
    • Flexible Manufacturing Systems: Surf the Net
  • Control of flow of parts and resources
  • Quality Control, QC
  • Parts Coordination and Quality: Surf the Net
• Segment 5: Assembly, CIM
  • Assembly
    • Robotic Assembly: Surf the Net
  • CIM, computer integrated manufacturing
    • CIM: Surf the Net
• Segment 6: Final Demand, Scheduling
  • Production for Final Demand
  • Scheduling
• Segment 7: Human Factors
  • International Competition
  • Japanese organizational innovations
  • US response
  • Competition: Surf the Net
• Segment 8: Agriculture
  • Automation in agriculture and services
    • Automation in Services and Agriculture: Surf the Net

Sections 7 and 8 revised: 25 Aug 09