Production System Facilities, Manufacturing Support systems, Automation in Production systems, Automation principles & Strategies
Manufacturing Operations, Product/Production Relationship, Production concepts and Mathematical Models & Costs of Manufacturing Operations
Basic Elements of an Automated System, Advanced Automation Functions & Levels of Automation, Continuous versus Discrete control, Computer Process control, Forms of Computer Process Control.
Components of a Manufacturing systems, Classification of Manufacturing Systems, overview of Classification Scheme, Single Station Manned Workstations and Single Station Automated Cells.
Part Families, Parts Classification and coding, Production Flow Analysis, Cellular Manufacturing, Flexible Manufacturing Systems: What is an FMS, FMS Components, FMS Applications & Benefits, and FMS Planning & Implementation Issues.
Traditional and Modern Quality Control Methods, Taguchi Methods in Quality Engineering. Introduction to SQC Tools.
Automated Inspection, Coordinate Measuring Machines Construction, operation & Programming, Software, Application & Benefits, Flexible Inspection System, Inspection Probes on Machine Tools, Machine Vision, Optical Inspection Techniques & Non-contact Non-optical Inspection Technologies
Process Planning, Computer Aided Process Planning, Concurrent Engineering & Design for Manufacturing, Advanced Manufacturing Planning, Just-in Time Production System, Basic concepts of lean and Agile manufacturing.