ENME202
Manufacturing and Production Processes
Syllabus
- Overview of Manufacturing (6 hours)
- Introduction
- Product cycle
- Role of manufacturing in economic development
- Role of engineers in manufacturing
- Evolution of organization for manufacturing
- Product design and concurrent engineering
- Design for manufacture, assembly, disassembly and service
- Green design and manufacturing
- Selection of materials
- Selection of manufacturing processes
- Quality assurance and total quality management
- Lean production and agile manufacturing
- Manufacturing costs and global competition
- Trends in manufacturing
- Solidification Process and Powder Metallurgy (5 hours)
- General characteristics of casting process and products
- Solidification phenomena and associated problems
- Sand casting process
- Investment casting process
- Permanent mould and pressure die casting
- Continuous casting characteristics and capabilities
- Powder metal processes and equipment
- Manufacturing process for plastic and composite materials
- Bulk Deformation Process (5 hours)
- General characteristics of bulk deformation process and products
- Force, energy and deformation: sensitivity to frictions, geometry, temperature and deformation rate
- Forging practice and technology; press and hammers, tooling design, manufacture wear
- Design of forgings; characteristics and defects in forgings
- Flat rolling; characteristics and defects
- Shape rolling: process and products
- Extrusion
- Wires, bar and tube drawing
- Sheet Metal Product Manufacturing Process (3 hours)
- Shearing and punching operations
- Sheet metal and tube bending: technology and practices
- Deep drawing and hydro forming
- Spinning operations and capabilities
- Formability assessment
- Material Removal Processes: Chip-forming (6 hours)
- Modeling the cutting process
- Force, power and productivity relationship
- Cutting tools materials: characteristics and economics
- General purpose machine tool types: operation of lathes, milling, shapers and drilling machines; application of shaping, planning and slotting machines
- Methods of mounting of jobs and cutting tools in machine tools
- Uses of various attachments in machine tools
- Control of machine tools and product properties
- Cutting off process: saws, flame cutting, arc cutting
- Tribology in machining process
- Material Removal Processes: Abrasive and Advanced (6 hours)
- Abrasive based tooling
- Grinding technology and practice
- Advanced machining processes
- Electrical discharge machining
- Electrochemical machining
- Laser-beam machining
- Electron-beam machining
- Water-jet and abrasive-jet machining processes
- Hybrid machining
- Economics of abrasive and advanced machining processes
- Automation of Manufacturing Process (5 hours)
- Need for flexible automation and numerical controls
- CNC machine tool description; technology and practices
- Computer-integrated manufacturing
- Computer-aided design, engineering and process planning
- Industrial robots
- Group technology
- Economic consideration
- Rapid Prototyping Process and Applications (4 hours)
- Need for rapid prototyping
- Subtractive and additive processes, virtual prototyping, self-replicating machines
- Direct manufacturing and rapid tooling
- Applications of rapid prototyping process
- Material Joining Processes (5 hours)
- Principle of material joining process, types
- Fusion-welding processes
- Solid-state welding processes
- Brazing, soldering, adhesive-bonding processes
- Mechanical fastening processes
- Design considerations, defects analysis and testing of joints
- Economics of joining processes
Practicals
- Solidification and bulk deformation processes
- Sheet metal working
- Engine lathe operations
- Shaper operations
- Milling machine operations
- Drilling machine operation
- Grinding machine operation
- Arc welding
- Gas welding
Evaluation
Final exam questions cover all chapters. Approximate marks distribution (total 60 marks over 45 hours):
- Overview of Manufacturing: 8 marks
- Solidification Process and Powder Metallurgy and Bulk Deformation Process: 14 marks
- Material Removal Processes (Chip-forming and Abrasive and Advanced): 14 marks
- Sheet Metal Product Manufacturing Process and Automation of Manufacturing Process: 12 marks
- Rapid Prototyping Process and Applications and Material Joining Processes: 12 marks