| CODE | MFE2204 | ||||||||||||||||
| TITLE | Manufacturing Systems | ||||||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | ||||||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The study-unit focuses on an understanding of what manufacturing systems are and how they function. The study-unit will cover the following content: - An introduction to Manufacturing and Manufacturing Systems – the economic importance of manufacturing, manufacturing sectors and manufacturing activities. - Manufacturing Activities - types: fabrication, assembly, testing, material transfer, resources of production, engineering in manufacturing industries: product design and development, materials and process engineering, manufacturing engineering, industrial engineering, quality engineering, control engineering. - Production System Types and Production Layouts – the importance of material flow considerations; job, batch, cellular/ group technology and flow production, layout types: process, cellular, product types. Introduction to layout planning and planning methods based on material . - Planning Activities in Manufacturing Systems – Process planning, process activity identification and documentation, process organisation, line balancing in flow lines. Production planning: levels of planning activities, planning of production resources: capacity and materials planning, modes of planning and control in production: push vs pull, technologies in planning and control activities. - Technologies in Manufacturing Systems: production technologies; automated production systems, flexible manufacturing systems, material transfer systems. - An introduction to lean manufacturing principles: understanding the principle of added value and the value stream, understanding application modes of pull production systems. Study-unit Aims: The aim of the study-unit is to give students an introductory overview and awareness of the characteristics of manufacturing systems. The insight provided will focus on the organisational arrangement of manufacturing systems together with the activities and between organisation elements that drive the operations within manufacturing systems, and the principle methodologies and technologies applicable in such systems. Students will also be introduced to the principle of added value activities and the role of lean principles in manufacturing systems. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Describe the organisation of manufacturing systems and interactions amongst the elements that constitute the organisation; - Describe how shop floors are organised and how this impacts material flow; - Describe how production activities are organised and their characteristics; - Describe the principles, objectives and nature of production and process planning; - Describe in basic terms automation and material handling technologies in manufacturing processes; - Describe the principles of lean manufacturing, added and non-added valueactivities, and specific methods related to the implementation of lean manufacturing principles; - Describe the roles of engineering with a manufacturing system context. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Organise a basic shop floor layout on the basis of material flow; - Perform line balancing and a work load analysis on a flow production arrangement; - Perform basic production and process planning activities. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - Groover M., 2012, Fundamentals of Modern Manufacturing, Materials, Processes and Systems, John Wiley & Sons. - Groover M., 2013, Automation, Production Systems and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, Pearson. |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Pre-requisite Study-unit: MFE1202 | ||||||||||||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Tutorial | ||||||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Conrad Pace |
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