Manufacturing Roadmap

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.

• BottleNecks (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.

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