Productivity in wood machining processes - a question of simple economics ?
Current productivity-improvement initiatives in high-volume furniture production environments do not accord the necessary importance to wood machining processes. The competitiveness of furniture products in the world market is often derived from low raw material and labour costs. With growing concer...
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| description | Current productivity-improvement initiatives in high-volume furniture production environments do not accord the necessary importance to wood machining processes. The competitiveness of furniture products in the world market is often derived from low raw material and labour costs. With growing concern about the future supply of wood resources, the need to enhance manufacturing productivity, particularly those associated with wood machining processes, is now of gaining impetus. Although the wood machining process is an integral part of furniture manufacturing, this process has often been treated as the end and not the mean of enhancing productivity. This paper discusses the essence of productivity in wood machining processes, from the process fundamental perspective. It emphasizes the need for an indepth understanding of the fundamentals of the machining process, in order to achieve the necessary surface quality and cost factors without which productivity in wood machining processes would remain a myth rather than a fact. |
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| spelling | upm-1140582024-12-08T08:07:24Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/114058/ Productivity in wood machining processes - a question of simple economics ? Ratnasingam, J. Ma, T.P. Perkins, M.C. Current productivity-improvement initiatives in high-volume furniture production environments do not accord the necessary importance to wood machining processes. The competitiveness of furniture products in the world market is often derived from low raw material and labour costs. With growing concern about the future supply of wood resources, the need to enhance manufacturing productivity, particularly those associated with wood machining processes, is now of gaining impetus. Although the wood machining process is an integral part of furniture manufacturing, this process has often been treated as the end and not the mean of enhancing productivity. This paper discusses the essence of productivity in wood machining processes, from the process fundamental perspective. It emphasizes the need for an indepth understanding of the fundamentals of the machining process, in order to achieve the necessary surface quality and cost factors without which productivity in wood machining processes would remain a myth rather than a fact. Springer Verlag 1999 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/114058/1/114058.pdf Ratnasingam, J. and Ma, T.P. and Perkins, M.C. (1999) Productivity in wood machining processes - a question of simple economics ? Holz als Roh - und Werkstoff, 57 (1). pp. 51-56. ISSN 0018-3768 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/PL00002621 10.1007/pl00002621 |
| spellingShingle | Ratnasingam, J. Ma, T.P. Perkins, M.C. Productivity in wood machining processes - a question of simple economics ? |
| title | Productivity in wood machining processes - a question of simple economics ? |
| title_full | Productivity in wood machining processes - a question of simple economics ? |
| title_fullStr | Productivity in wood machining processes - a question of simple economics ? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Productivity in wood machining processes - a question of simple economics ? |
| title_short | Productivity in wood machining processes - a question of simple economics ? |
| title_sort | productivity in wood machining processes - a question of simple economics ? |
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