Agile manufacturing

Author: Yao Zhenqiang / Zhang Xueping (editors)
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: This book primarily studies product realization technologies and manufacturing models that enable rapid response to market changes with low cost and high efficiency. Starting from the reconfigurable methods and technologies at the manufacturing equipment layer, manufacturing system layer, and social manufacturing resource layer, it explores the fundamental theories, application technologies, and implementation tools of agile manufacturing. The main contents include: (1) The basic principles, structural systems, supporting technologies, and implementation strategies of agile manufacturing; (2) The establishment principles and evaluation systems of dynamic alliances and virtual enterprises; (3) The methods, principles, and full-life-cycle evaluation of reconfigurable design for manufacturing systems; (4) Modeling, guidelines, and decision-making planning technologies for virtual manufacturing, among others.