Production Systems Engineering: Cost and Performance Optimization

摘要

Richard E. Gustavson, McGraw-Hill Professional, 256 pp., $125 (book). This book combines knowledge areas around technological and economic requirements to produce an optimal production system design. The author points out that in most modern manufacturing companies, these areas are often not combined and thus will not produce optimal results. The book builds on 25 years of development in actual production applications, with many real-world examples. The author first introduces the reader to the current thinking in the system design world and what led to the development of the techniques in this book. The next few chapters dive into the basics of system design, followed by the inclusion of fundamental principles. The book then builds on the deterministic results by adding stochastic analyses.