Before moving on to non-marathon related stuff, I thought I’d summarize the training I did for CIM. Being that it was my first marathon, I learned A LOT about what worked and what didn’t.… more →
Running Tangentswrote 2 days ago: The Canmol: Wales Marketing Awards from the Chartered Institute of Marketing in Wales are a celebrat … more →
wrote 5 days ago: Interest in the MineSight Implicit Modeler continues to grow after the new product received top bill … more →
wrote 6 days ago: In each of the configurations described above, a means of delivering the components to the assembly … more →
wrote 6 days ago: Assuming that the product design is compatible with automated assembly, there are several different … more →
wrote 6 days ago: One of the impediments to automated assembly is that many of the traditional assembly methods descri … more →
wrote 6 days ago: The term automated assembly refers to the use of mechanized and automated devices to perform the var … more →
wrote 1 week ago: 6.1. A manual production flow line is arranged with six stations and a conveyor system is used to mo … more →
wrote 1 week ago: [1] ARCUS, A. L., “COMSOAL–A Computer Method of Sequencing Operations for Assembly Lines … more →
wrote 1 week ago: The well-defined pace of a manual assembly line has merit from the point of view of maximizing produ … more →
wrote 1 week ago: The line balancing techniques described in Sections 6.5 and 6.6 represent strict and precise procedu … more →
wrote 1 week ago: The three methods described in the preceding section are generally carried out manually. This does n … more →
wrote 1 week ago: In this section we consider several methods for solving the line balancing problem by hand, using Ex … more →
wrote 1 week ago: In flow line production there are many separate and distinct processing and assembly operations to b … more →
wrote 1 week ago: Manual assembly lines, or, more generally, manual flow lines, are used in high-production situations … more →
wrote 1 week ago: There are various methods used in industry to accomplish the assembly processes described above. The … more →
wrote 1 week ago: As defined in Chapter 2, assembly involves the joining together of two or more separate parts to for … more →
wrote 1 week ago: Most discrete products an assembled from components. In this chapter we discuss some of the importan … more →
wrote 1 week ago: 5.1. An eight-station rotary indexing machine operates with an ideal cycle time of 20 s. The frequen … more →
wrote 1 week ago: [1] BOOTHROYD, G., and A. H. REDFORD, Mechanized Assembly, McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., London, 1 … more →