PSE - Textbook

GENERAL INFORMATION

Production Systems Engineering (PSE) is the first ever textbook devoted exclusively to the problems of analysis, continuous improvement, and design of production systems, i.e., systems of unreliable machines and finite buffers arranged to produce a desired product. It is intended for senior undergraduate and first year graduate students interested in manufacturing. The development is first principle-based rather than recipe-based. The only prerequisite is elementary Probability Theory; however, all necessary probability facts are reviewed in an introductory chapter. Using a system-theoretic approach, the textbook provides analytical solutions for the problems at hand and illustrates them by numerous industrial case studies. In addition, the so-called PSE Toolbox, which implements the algorithms developed, is described; for the demo of this toolbox, please click on the PSE Toolbox button above.

The book consists of five parts, each comprised of several chapters. The first part places the subject matter in the general field of Manufacturing, reviews Probability Theory, and describes methods of mathematical modeling of production systems. The second and third parts are devoted to serial lines with discrete and continuous time models of machine reliability, respectively, while the fourth one addresses assembly systems. Finally, the fifth part summarizes the fundamental facts of PSE, describes the PSE Toolbox, and provides proofs of the theorems included in the text.

At this time, this textbook is used for Production Systems Engineering courses at the University of Michigan, University of Kentucky, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and the Technion, Haifa, Israel.

UNIQUE FEATURES OF THE TEXTBOOK

Describes methods for mathematical modeling of production systems.
Provides techniques for designing continuous improvement projects with predictable results.
Offers quantitative methods for selecting lean buffering.
Offers measurement-based techniques for identifying bottleneck machines and bottleneck buffers.
Addresses the issue of product quality.
Describes methods for analysis of transient behavior of production lines.
Offers techniques for measurement-based management of production systems.
Describes a software package, the PSE Toolbox, which implements algorithms developed.
Includes numerous case studies, which illustrate the topics considered and, on occasion, serve as problems for homework assignments.

Table of Contents

Introduction.- Mathematical tools: elements of Probability Theory.- Mathematical modeling of production systems.- Analysis of Bernoulli lines.- Continuous improvement of Bernoulli lines.- Design of lean Bernoulli lines.- Closed Bernoulli lines.- Product quality in Bernoulli lines.- Customer demand satisfaction in Bernoulli lines.- Transient behavior of Bernoulli lines.- Analysis of exponential lines.- Analysis of non-exponential lines.- Improvement of continuous lines.- Design of lean continuous lines.- Customer demand satisfaction in continuous lines.- Assembly systems with Bernoulli model of machine reliability.- Assembly systems with continuous time models of machine reliability.- Summary of main facts of production systems engineering.- PSE toolbox.- Proofs.

TARGET GROUPS

Undergraduate and graduate students in all engineering disciplines, faculty members in Schools of Engineering and Management, manufacturing systems and supply chain researchers, practicing engineers and managers of production systems.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

For the full Table of Contents, click here.

For the Foreword, click here.

For Chapter 1, click here.

For Chapter 4, click here.

For Chapter 5, click here.

For the Epilogue, click here.

For the information about the authors, click here.

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