Content

Types, structure and function of Manufacturing Systems. Equipment layout, product and work flows and information flow. Control levels. Cellular production, Group Technology, coding systems, Computer Aided Process Planning systems. Flexible Manufacturing Systems: flexibility types. Operations assignment and scheduling. Controller design based on Petri Nets. System Monitoring. Robotics Manufacturing Cells: industrial robot types, integration interfaces, on and off-line robot programming for machine tool tending and manufacturing processing. Analysis and Design of Manufacturinh Systems using discrete event simulation. Computer Integrated Manufacturing: information integration, interfaces in Computer-Aided-X software systems, databases and local area communication networks. Optional assignments in four major topics of the syllabus.

Laboratory exercises: 1- Manufacturing System Simulation using dedicated discrete event software 2- Industrial robot programming for machine tool tending