Flexible Manufacturing Systems

Speed to market has veritably become the primary factor in ensuring survival in an arena of very tight competition, calling for flexibility and adaptability in manufacturing. One of the plus points of Rubenfield’s book is that the concepts of optimizing human capital is presented in such a succinct manner implementation becomes very easy.
The book explains implementation of flexible manufacturing in sewing operation step by step, technical calculation to group the operations, allocating operators based on multi-skill, payment plan to make the module. With practical example involving volunteers the book explains training requirements of operators and how to maximize human performance.