ManufacturingRoadmap
Last edit October 15, 2009
Wiki pages about designing and making physical things (usually as compared to programming):
Analogies
AnalogyBetweenProgrammingAndManufacturing
AnalogyBetweenProgrammingAndManufacturingDiscussion
TheSourceCodeIsTheDesign
ManufacturingManagement
ManufacturingAndManagementPeople
Division of Labor
FredrickWinslowTaylor
established the discipline of
IndustrialEngineering
.
Taylor's theories are often called
ScientificManagement
. These theories focus on breaking work down into discrete tasks, and increasing the efficiency of production.
IsoNineThousand
is sometimes compared to
ScientificManagement
. See also
WikiPagesAboutSayWhatYouDo
Quality
WilliamEdwardsDeming
's
FourteenPoints
and
ProfoundKnowledge
focus on improving quality and the work environment.
The
ToyotaProductionSystem
uses Deming's theories.
Deming's theories are sometimes compared to
ExtremeProgramming
.
SixSigma
is a measure of how variation affects quality.
BottleNeck
s (
TheoryOfConstraints
)
EliyahuGoldratt
's
Business novels:
TheGoal
,
ItsNotLuck
,
CriticalChain
,
NecessaryButNotSufficient
.
FiveFocusingSteps
ThinkingProcess
ScienceFiction
EricDrexler
thinks that
MolecularNanoTechnology
will someday make manufacturing exactly like programming:
ProgrammableMatter
.
SelfAssembly
is popular in science fiction ... but it seems to be getting closer to reality.
RoadMaps
,
CategoryManufacturing
,
CategoryRoadMap