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Citation
Rigelsford, J. (2001), "Make-to-Order Assembly Management", Industrial Robot, Vol. 28 No. 6. https://doi.org/10.1108/ir.2001.04928fae.001
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2001, MCB UP Limited
Make-to-Order Assembly Management
R. KolischSpringer2001260 pp.ISBN 3-540-41098-8£48.00, hardback
Keywords: Assembly, Management
This book addresses some of the problems associated with make-to-order assembly and should be of interest to managerial science students, senior development and production engineers, and managers. Although the main concepts are presented in a clear and simple manner, some sections may prove daunting for those without a good understanding of mathematics.
After an introductory chapter that provides an outline of the book and the basic problems and decision levels associated with make-to-order assembly, the remaining ten chapters are divided into three parts.
Part 1 "Preliminaries", presents two chapters that address the general issues of make-to-order assembly, a literature survey, and classification of the subject. Topics covered include assembly management, co-ordination and integration, hierarchical product planning, multi-project scheduling, and four case studies.
Part 2 "Decision models", contains four chapters that discuss a hierarchical framework, order selection, manufacturing planning, and operations scheduling. These chapters address the order selection level, manufacturing planning level, operations scheduling level, problems, literature reviews, and models associated with each level.
The remaining four chapters of the book form Part 5 "Solution methods". These address research opportunities and methods for order selection, manufacturing planning and operations scheduling. Methods discussed include the column-generation approach, construction heuristics, lagrangian relaxation, construction heuristics, and improvement heuristics. An experimental evaluation of each method is also given.
Make-to-Order Assembly Management is an informative text which is suitable for those who are interested in a structured and more scientific approach towards make-to-order assembly management.
Jon Rigelsford