Fundamental Principles of Manufacturing Processes or Making Decisions

Fundamental Principles of Manufacturing Processes

Author: Robert H H Todd

The key to understanding how to produce products with low response time, low inventory, and flexibility can be found in this important new text. Using a systematic approach, this unique analysis of contemporary manufacturing processes identifies family characteristics of individual processes to facilitate learning. In all, six families of Shaping processes that change the basic geometry of shape of a workpiece (Mechanical Mass Reducing, Thermal Mass Reducing, Chemical Mass Reducing, Mass Conserving, Consolidation, and Joining) and four families of Nonshaping processes that modify the engineering and aesthetic properties of materials (Hardening, Softening, Surface Preparation, and Surface Coatings) re identified and studied. This classification, or taxonomy, now used in the United States and Europe, is a valuable tool in identifying processes and their capabilities.

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Provides a taxonomy of manufacturing processes and discusses general characteristics of the 10 fundamental families, such as mass-reducing, joining, hardening, and surface treatment. The individual processes themselves are described in the companion Reference Guide. Well illustrated. No bibliography. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

1	General Structure of Manufacturing Processes	1
2	Mechanical Mass-Reducing Processes	17
3	Thermal Mass-Reducing Processes	41
4	Chemical Reducing Processes	51
5	Consolidation Processes	57
6	Deformation Processes	79
7	Mechanical, Thermal, and Chemical Joining Processes	97
8	Annealing (Softening) Processes	111
9	Thermal Hardening Processes	129
10	Surface Preparation Processes	139
11	Surface Coating Processes	145

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Making Decisions

Author: Dennis V Lindley

Making Decisions Second Edition D.V. Lindley Formerly Professor of Statistics, University College London This book looks at the problems involved in decision-making and argues that there is only one logical way to make a decision. By the use of three basic principles—assigning probabilities to the uncertain events; assigning utilities to the possible consequences; and choosing that decision that maximizes expected utility—decisions can be reached more efficiently and with less disagreement. It shows that only maximization of expected utility leads to sensible decision-making. This extensively revised second edition uses only elementary mathematics and will be of interest to all those concerned with decision-making and its consequences. Since his retirement from University College London in 1977 Professor Lindley has held visiting appointments at Berkeley, University of Florida, George Washington University, University of Sao Paulo, University of Wisconsin, Monash University, Australia, and University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Contents

1. Decisions and uncertain events
2. A numerical measure for uncertainty
3. The laws of probability
4. A numerical measure for consequences
5. The utility of money
6. Bayes’ Theorem
7. Value of information
8. Decision trees
9. The assessment of probabilities and utilities
10. An appreciation

Appendix Answers to exercises Glossary of Symbols Subject Index