Advanced Manufacturing
Technology
Module 5.2
Manufacturing Metrics
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© Dr. R.Siriram January 2006, adapted from Weck, O; Kim,It, Y.
Manufacturing
Manufacturing is the physical realization of the
previously designed parts
Metrics to assess the “performance” of mfg
- Quality
• does it meet specifications?
- Rate
• how many units can we produce per unit
time?
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Introduction to Manufacturing (Cont.)
- Cost
• What is the cost per unit?
• What is the investment cost in machinery &
tooling?
- Flexibility
• what else can be made with our equipment?
• How long does it take to reconfigure the
plant?
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Life Cycle: Conceive, Design,
Implement
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Simple Manufacturing Plant
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Raw Materials
Material
Selection
- Strength
- Density
- Cost
- …
Form
- Sheet
- Rods, … 6
Parts Manufacturing
Fundamental Parts Fabrication Techniques
- Machining – e.g. milling, laser and water-jet
cutting…
- Forming – e.g. deep drawing, forging, stamping
- Casting – Fill die with liquid material, let cool
- Injection Molding – mainly polymers
- Layup – e.g. Pre-preg composite manufacturing
- Sintering – form parts starting from metal
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powder
Metal Cutting/Removal Techniques
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Quality: Engineering Tolerances
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Process Capability Indices
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Rate: Manufacturing
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Learning Curve Equation
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Cost: Driving Factors
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Process Selection
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Flexibility: Uncertainties
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Flexibility of process technologies
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Types of Flexibilities and
their Linkage
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The Future of AMT’s
• As a manufacturing paradigm AMT concepts and
practice have been developed for more than 20 years.
• Future trends include:
•Agile Manufacturing: In today’s continuously,
rapidly and changing competitive environment,
an effective way to keep the firm competitive is
to use the agile manufacturing strategy.
• Agile manufacturing has been called the
21st-century manufacturing enterprise
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The Future of AMT’s
• By agile, we mean the firm can quickly
respond to market changes by quickly
reengineering its business processes,
reconfiguring its manufacturing systems,
and innovating its products.
• Characteristics of agile manufacturing
include
a. Greater product customization
b. Rapid introduction of new modified
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The Future of AMT’s
c. Increased emphasis on
knowledgeable, highly trained,
empowered workers.
d. Interactive customer relationships.
e. Dynamic reconfiguration of
production processes.
f. Greater use of flexible production
technologies.
g. Rapid prototyping
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h. Innovative and flexible management
The Future of AMT’s
i. An agile and open system information
environment
j. Rapid collaboration with other firm’s
to firm a virtual company.
• Green manufacturing: The increasingly rapid
deterioration of the environment has caused many
problems for society. Green manufacturing aims
at developing a manufacturing paradigm and
methods for reducing pollution by a
manufacturing firm.
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The Future of AMT’s
• The green manufacturing paradigm covers
the whole life cycle of a product, from
requirements specification, design,
manufacturing, and maintenance to final
discarding.
• Virtual manufacturing and other trends: By using
virtual reality and high-performance simulation,
virtual manufacturing focuses on building a
digital model of the product and studies the
dynamic and kinetic performance of the product
to reduce product development cost and time.
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The Future of AMT’s
• Technologies involved include: Web
technology, distributed object technology,
knowledge integration technology.
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