Download or read book Production Flow Analysis for Planning Group Technology written by John L. Burbidge and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is an in-depth account of one of the most important strategic tools available to manufacturing analysts. The author, a nationally known expert in the field, provides much needed guidance on production flow analysis, a new technique that will help save time and money by minimizing set-up times and reducing the size of buffering stocks of components. The volume demonstrates the use of route cards to achieve a total division of made components into families and a parallel division of existing machines into groups using previously established processing methods.