Presents Total Manufacturing Assurance (TMA) as a holistic approach to manufacturing operations
Focuses on analytics and performance assessment, along with Industry 4.0 and its role in advanced manufacturing, strategic planning, Innovation and engineering economics, as well as manufacturing processes, materials, and operations. It also covers product and manufacturing system reliability, maintainability, availability, quality, and safety, financial issues in decision making and engineering analysis
Offers a case study for each chapter highlighting key TMA connections all with the same structure of overview, issue, objective, approach, results, and conclusion
Discusses management and engineering techniques and tools, and their practical implementation, required to achieve TMA
Expands on integrating fundamental manufacturing, engineering, and management topics, which are key in achieving TMA
PowerPoint slides and a solutions manual are available to instructors for course adoptions.