New ASME Press books look at manufacturing engineering, cost-driven design

Manufacturing engineering optimization and cost-driven design are the subjects of two new books that have just been released by ASME Press.

"Manufacturing Engineering: Principles for Optimization (Third Edition)" was written by engineering management expert and former ASME President Daniel T. Koenig.

In this new 536-page third edition, Koenig has added information on project management, time standards, personnel appraisal, lean manufacturing, and expanded coverage of probability and statistics. Summaries and review questions are provided at the end of each chapter to ensure the reader's understanding and retention of the material.

The book's chapters address such topics as manufacturing engineering organization concepts, management techniques, factory capacity and loading techniques, capital equipment programs, producibility engineering, maintenance engineering, and methods, planning and work measurements. Other sections of the book examine process control engineering and quality control, computer-integrated manufacturing, computer-aided planning and data collection, manufacturing resources planning, and using ISO 9000.

A second new book, "Cost-Efficient Design," was co-published by ASME Press and Springer-Verlag (Germany). This English-language edition was written by Klaus Ehrlenspiel, Alfons Kiewert, and Udo Lindeman and edited by Mahendra S. Hundal. The German version of "Cost-Efficient Design" has been a bestseller in Europe since it first appeared in 1985.

The 600-page book discusses cost-related factors in the design process that have an impact on product development, and offers proven methods for understanding, influencing, and reducing product costs. While primarily for practicing engineers and engineering managers, this book will also be of interest to graduate students in product design and manufacturing.

Topics covered in the book include cost responsibility and cost management in product development, methodology and organization of cost management for product development, influencing lifecycle and total costs, fundamentals of cost accounting for product development, and early identification of costs during product development.

"Manufacturing Engineering" (Order No. 802493) costs $99 for ASME members, $124 for nonmembers. For more information, or to order, visit http://catalog.asme.org/books/PrintBook/Manufacturing_
Principles.cfm.

"Cost-Efficient Design" (Order No. 802507) costs $104 for ASME members, $130 for nonmembers. For information or to order, visit www.asme.org/Publications/Books/New_Books_from_
Press.cfm.

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