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In the tasks which are described below, you will gather much of your
information from CES. However, it is expected that you will add value by
sourcing information from outside of CES where appropriate and
acknowledge/reference these sources correctly.
You are required to submit your work within the bounds of the University Infringement
of Assessment Regulations. Although you should make full use of any source
material, which would normally be an occasional sentence and/or paragraph
(referenced) followed by your own critical analysis/evaluation.
2. In “Browse” mode, select Table: “Process Universe” and Subset: “All Processes”.
3. Choose one process from each of the 3 categories available (Joining, Shaping
and Surface Treatment).
4. In your own words, give a summary of each of the 3 processes chosen. For each
process, make sure you include information on (i) the nature of the process, (ii) the
types of materials which can be processed in this way and (iii) the characteristics of
the components which are produced by the process (size, shape, dimensional
tolerance etc) and (iv) economics of the process.
2. You are now going to use CES to work through the chosen process selection
exercise, generating all selection charts manually.
5. Reproduce every selection step (i.e. plot selection charts etc) exactly as described
in the case study.
6. Provide your own commentary which shows clearly how you perform each step of
the selection exercise and which links them together. Are there are any references in
literature that confirm that your shortlisted processes are actually used to
manufacture the selected parts?
7. Write an overview of your process selection case study methodology in your own
words.
Task 3: Economic and Environmental Impacts of Material and Manufacturing
Process Selection
This is an open-ended exercise which allows lots of scope for personal interpretation.
Three materials are proposed as the likely candidates for a car component.
These are:
Use the Level 2 CES databases and the CES Eco-Audit tool to investigate the
relative impacts of the above factors [(a) through (f) above] associated with the use of
this component within a car with a usable life of 20 years and that travels within the
UK:
i. 5,000 km pa
ii. 10,000 km pa
iii. 25,000 km pa
iv. 50,000 km pa
Make whatever reasonable assumptions you feel appropriate, but do specify these.
Examples might include manufacturing batch size, fuel costs, component transport
mode to end user etc.