Today's product designers are presented with a myriad of choices when creating their work and preparing it for manufacture. They have to be knowledgeable about a vast repertoire of processes, ranging from what used to be known as traditional "crafts" to the latest technology, to…
Automation, Production Systems, and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing provide up-to-date coverage of production systems, how they are sometimes automated and computerised, and how they can be mathematically analysed to obtain performance metrics. The text is designed primarily f…
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