Effective Transition from Design to Production by David F. Ciambrone, Sc.D.

Table of Contents
1. Proposal/Contract
2. System Design
3. Detailed Design
4. Manufacturing Planning and Process/Prototype/Test Development
5. Production Readiness
6. Low-Rate Initial Production
7. Production
8. Other Areas for Concern
Appendix A. Quality Function Deployment (QFD)
Appendix B. Six Sigma and Design-to-Production Transition
Appendix C. Design for Manufacturing
Appendix D. Effective Transition from Design to Production Vendor Survey Tools
Appendix E. Effective Transition from Design to Production
Appendix F. Design for the Environment (DfE)
Index

Production Systems Engineering Cost and Performance Optimization by Richard E. Gustavson

Table of Contents
1. Finding a Better Method for Manufacturing System Design
2. Results from Initial Studies
3. Real-World Applications Lead to Enhanced Understanding
4. Stochastic Analyses Added to Deterministic Results
5. Initial Look at System Configurations
6. Multiple Disparate Products Produced by One System
7. World-Class Versus Mostly Manual Systems
Appendices
A. Determining Allowable Investment
B. Economic–Technological Synthesis of Systems
C. Establishing Task Data for Assembly Systems
D. Simultaneous Improvement in Yield and Cycle-Time
E. Two Case Study Summaries
F. Advanced System Design Procedure

Factory Planning Manual Situation-Driven Production Facility Planning by Michael Schenk · Siegfried Wirth · Egon Muller

Table of Contents
1 Introduction
2 Systematic and Situation-Driven Planning Methods
3 The 0 + 5 + X Planning Model
4 Material flow and logistics
5 Situation-driven case studies
6 Appendix