Thomas Matousek

The Handbook to Assembly Thomas Matousek

Unlock the full potential of your assembly line by optimizing this commonly overlooked process. Whether you are a manufacturing or quality engineer, maintenance tech or manager, this book provides valuable information to give you a leg up on your competitors. This simple guide condenses thousands of hours of lessons learned and experiences to give you the tools to become an effective manufacturing engineer or the technical expert at your meetings. Modern press capabilities can provide significant cost and scrap savings if properly utilized. Too often, this system is seen purely as a means of assembly and not measurement. Understanding how to read these curves can provide valuable clues and, in some cases, indisputable evidence of the root cause of an issue. Controlling the press curves provides multiple benefits such as maintaining station condition and early detection of supplier part quality defects. Perhaps most importantly, the capture and rejection of a defective unit or press in station without relying on subsequent testing operations. Why is this important? No single testing operation is 100% fool proof. From a bottom-line perspective, each station a defective unit passes through after a press, is money lost in both labor and unnecessary scrap at each downstream operation. This guide does not cover presses used solely for the purpose of evaluation. Although many of the key principles covered in assembly do apply to measurement only applications. This guide was designed to provide clear and ready to use knowledge for practical applications in assembly and manufacturing, without the fluff of a typical engineering textbook. If your facility utilizes multiple pressing stations, the ROI, will be astounding.