ENGINEERING FOR THE CONTROL OF MANUFACTURING

"This book attempts to show the interrelationships of manufacturing and engineering to the whole manufacturing environment . [It] describes the fundamentals of the modern manufacturing control system, the engineering support required, and the use made of the system's tools." [Preface] The chapter headings are: Engineering in a Manufacturing Company; The Manufacturing Control System; Design Engineering; Computer Systems; Computer Programming; Computer System Interfaces; Part Numbering and Coding; Bills of Material and the Manufacturing Link; Project Planning and Control; Lead Time and Setup Time; Manufacturing Engineering; Plant Engineering; Forecasting and Machine Uptime; Long-Range Facilities Planning; and The Just-In-Time Philosophy. 256 pages, with [tables], figures, Problems, Bibliography, and Index; plus xvi pages Contents, Foreword, and Preface. DJ and boards are clean and sound; original price stamp on rfEP; text is clean and strong.