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Any suggested reading/resource list ?

• contingencies 7y ago
  Not really, someone could perhaps write a modern book approaching manufacturing from a software background. My feel-it-out approach has been a multi-year gentle introduction combining reading and MOOCs across logistics, trade-specific fabrication manuals, metrology and an understanding of fundamental mathematical approaches to the space and evaluating their existing implementations: chiefly multivariate linear optimization and Google's OR Tools. I also maintain a custom supply chain automation platform for our business and now have multiple years of experience working with a range of third party fabricators (many orders per week) across a few processes and material types which has given me relatively strong insight in to a broad range of challenges or issues that can emerge in fabrication-related process interfaces: bad specs, tolerances, shipping damage, alignment, test overheads, supplier reliability fluctuations, shipping issues (carrier bankruptcies!), missing packages, importance of receivable/inventories, reasoning behind anomalous unit operation timings, importance of maintenance, fallback, training and safety, insurance costs, true costs of manual programming, benefits of insourcing, lesser-known unit operations can save a ton of money...