Download or read book Total Manufacturing Assurance written by Douglas Brauer and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-04-06 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.