This textbook series is published at a very opportunity time when the discipline of industrial engineering is experiencing a phenomenal growth in China academia and with its increased interests in the utilization of the concepts, methods and tools of industrial engineering in the workplace. Effective utilization of these industrial engineering approaches in the workplace should result in increased productivity, quality of work, satisfaction and profitability to the cooperation. The books in this series should be most suitable to junior and senior undergraduate students and first year graduate students, and to those in industry who need to solve problems on the design, operation and management of industrial. | 21st century MANUFACTURING PAUL KENNETH WRIGHT Forward This textbook series is published at a very opportunity time when the discipline of industrial engineering is experiencing a phenomenal growth in China academia and with its increased interests in the utilization of the concepts methods and tools of industrial engineering in the workplace. Effective utilization of these industrial engineering approaches in the workplace should result in increased productivity quality of work satisfaction and profitability to the cooperation. The books in this series should be most suitable to junior and senior undergraduate students and first year graduate students and to those in industry who need to solve problems on the design operation and management of industrial systems. Gavriel Salvendy Department of Industrial Engineering. Tsinghua University School of Industrial Engineering Purdue University April 2002 Contents ffliMCf 1 HUNUHCWRINGi ART TKHNOLOGY KIIIKE AND BUSINESS 1 Introduction What Is Manufacturing 1 The Art of Manufacturing from 20 000 . to 1770 . 2 The Technology of Manufacturing From the 1770s to the 1970s 5 A Science of Manufacturing The 1980s to the Present 8 The Business of Manufacturing 13 Summary 15 References 17 Bibliography 18 Case Study The Next Bench Syndrome 19 Review Material 19 2 BANUfACWNING ANALYSIS SOTtt BASIC QUESTIONS FOR A STARTUP COMPANY 21 Introduction 21 Question 1 Who Is the Customer 22 Question 2 How Much Will the Product Cost to Manufacture C 26 Question 3 How Much Quality Q 44 Question 4 How Fast Can the Product Be Delivered D 57 Question 5 How Much Flexibility F 62 Management of Technology 65 References 67 Bibliography 70 Case Study 71 .
