Introduction

Production System (Manufacturing System)

People + Equipment + Procedures organized to accomplish the
DQ047-01 manufacturing operations of a company
Manufacturing Systems
Categorized into two aspects:
1. Facilities: Factory (including its equipment) + Factory organization
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2. Manufacturing Support Systems: Product design, Procedures to
manage production, to solve the technical and logistics problems
(ordering, moving, quality assurance, etc.)

NOTE: Production system is not only physical equipment!

Facilities for Discrete Products (1) Facilities for Discrete Products (2)
Only discrete products will be focused in this class Product variety
Discrete products: books, cars, computers, Means different product designs or types that are produced in a plant
Process (continuous) products: chemical, liquid, wires, Inverse correlation between variety and quantity

How to determine factory organization (layout) Product variety

Production quantity and product variety
Low
Production quantity (arbitrary measure!)
Low production: 1 100 units / year Medium
Medium production: 100 10000 units / year
High production: 10000 1M units / year High

Production quantity

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 Type of Production Facility (1) Type of Production Facility (2)
Job shop: for low quantity production Batch Production: for medium quantity production
Aircraft, ship, special machine, etc Hard product variety
Designed for maximum flexibility Requires setup time or changeover time between products
Manufacturing Cell: for medium quantity production
Soft product variety
No change overtime

Fixed-position layout Process layout

For heavy, difficult-to-move products Equipment is arranged according to
function or type Cellular layout
Process layout Used for batch job
Used for batch job

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Type of Production Facility (3) Manufacturing Support Systems

Flow line: for high quantity production Four functions
Typical type of mass production (another type is quantity production 1. Business functions
on a single machine) Communication with customers
Assembly line, transfer line Sales, marketing, accounting, etc.
2. Product design
Customer design or customer specification (manufacturer design)
3. Manufacturing planning
1. Process planning: sequence of individual process
2. Manufacturing planning: when and what?
3. Material requirement planning: ordering raw material
Product layout 4. Capacity planning: manpower and machine resource
Used for flow line 4. Manufacturing control
1. Shop floor control: move, process, assemble, etc.
2. Inventory control: balance inventory
3. Quality control: quality of products

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 Automation Category of Automated Manufacturing
Definition
Discuss:
A technology concerned with the application of mechanical,
electronic, and computer-based systems to operate and control
Cost?
production
1. Automation of facility Production rate?
Product variety
2. Computerization of manufacturing support systems
Programmable automation

Type of automated manufacturing systems Low

Flexible automation
1. Fixed automation
Medium
2. Programmable automation
3. Flexible automation Fixed automation
Manual High

100 10000 Production quantity

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Automation Principles Ten Strategies for Automation (1980)

Discussion 1. Specialization of operations
Reasons for automating? 2. Combined operations
3. Simultaneous operations
USA Principle 4. Integration of operations
Understand the existing process
5. Increased flexibility
What are the inputs? What are the outputs?
Tools: Charting tools, mathematical models 6. Improved material handling and storage
Simplify the process 7. On-line inspection
Questions: Purpose? Is this necessary? 8. Process control and optimization
Automate the process
9. Plant operations control
10. Computer-integrated manufacturing

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 Multi Spindle Drill Head On-line Inspection
Multi spindle drill and tap with Universal joints Machining center inspection probe

Non-contact laser probe

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