Manufacturing assembly handbook

The prime object of this book is to identify clearly the possibilities for the rationalization of assembly. In this respect, an assembly-oriented product design forms the basis for both economic manual assembly and also the fundamental requirement for automated assembly. For this reason, particular emphasis is given to assembly-oriented product design.

At low production rates or with complicated assembly processes, in the foreseeable future optimized manual assembly will remain the most economic. For this reason, in this book, assembly technology is not only viewed from the aspect of automation but covers the whole range of systems from entirely manual assembly to fully automated assembly systems.

This book is written based on practical experience for practical application and will give experts in the field of rationalization guidelines for the solution of rationalization problems.