Elements of advanced manufacturing theory

This book is the continuation of the textbook Lean Compendium – Introduction to Modern Manufacturing Theory.

It extends the theory of mathematical modeling to batch & queue-based cyber-physical production systems.

To facilitate learning, the book continues to develop a Cartesian-derived understanding of the system’s behavior by applying manufacturing-specific theorems, corollaries and lemmas.

A law-based description enables to model production mathematically and understand upfront their dynamics in terms of WIP generation, lead-times, exit-rates, and on-time delivery performance.

While simulation alone only allows to explore the optimum solution, the development of a theory allows to gain knowledge.

This improves the learning of the “physics” of manufacturing systems and contributes to a solid production’s understanding and a clear and cognitive problem determination that leads to a thorough mental capture for mastering a systematic design of such highly complex systems.