Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Nomenclature -- Author -- Chapter 1 Introduction to productivity theory for industrial engineering -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Production-based industries, machineries and technologies for manufacturing systems -- 1.3 Reliability attributes for industrial machines and systems -- 1.3.1 Measuring and modelling the system reliability -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 Conceptual principles of productivity theory for industrial engineering -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Technological processes and balancing are the basis for structural designs of manufacturing machines and systems -- 2.3 Productivity rate of a single machine tool -- 2.4 Productivity rate of a machine with multi-tool machining process -- 2.4.1 Practical test -- 2.4.2 The productivity rate of the machine tool with the single machining process -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 Manufacturing systems of parallel arrangement and productivity rate -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Productivity rate of manufacturing systems with parallel arrangement and independent work of workstations -- 3.3 Productivity rate of automated lines of parallel structure and linear arrangement -- 3.4 An automatic machine of parallel structure and circular design (rotor-type machine) -- 3.4.1 Productivity rate of rotor-type automatic machines -- 3.5 Comparative analysis of productivity rates for manufacturing systems of parallel arrangements -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 Manufacturing systems of serial arrangement and productivity rate -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Productivity rate of manufacturing systems with serial arrangement and independent work of workstations -- 4.3 Productivity rate of an automated line with serial structure -- 4.3.1 Industrial case study
