"Ten Steps to Lean Production; Steps 9 and 10: Pokayoke, Autonomation and Computer Integrated Manufacturing"
FDM
June 2004, pp. 20-23
The final article in this series focuses on pokayoke, autonomation, and computer integrated manufacturing.
Autonomation is defined in the article as "developing devices and processes, including devices in manufacturing processes, which automatically prevent that process from making defects or another form of waste—overproducing."
Pokayoke refers to any device that can check critical part dimensions and provide feedback so that the process can be immediately improved before any defects are made.
According to the author, computer integrated manufacturing allows information systems in the factory to "interpret data in more than the conventional data processing sense. Instead of merely performing repetitive calculations on the data, the system will understand the inherent relationships in the data."
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