JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

UNIT - I

Introduction: Types and strategies of automation, pneumatic and hydraulic components circuits, Automation in machine tools. Mechanical feeding and too changing and machine tool control transfer the automaton.

UNIT - II

Automated flow lines: Methods or work part transport transfer Mechanical buffer storage control function, design and fabrication consideration. Analysis of Automated flow lines: General terminology and analysis of transfer lines without and with buffer storage, partial automation, implementation of automated flow lines.

UNIT - III

Assembly system and line balancing: Assembly process and systems assembly line, line balancing methods, ways of improving line balance, flexible assembly lines.

UNIT - IV

Automated material handling: Types of equipment, functions, analysis and design of material handling systems conveyor systems, automated guided vehicle systems. Automated storage systems, Automated storage and retrieval systems; work in process storage, interfacing handling and storage with manufacturing.

UNIT - V

Fundamentals of Industrial controls: Review of control theory, logic controls, sensors and actuators, Data communication and LAN in Manufacturing. Business process Re-engineering: Introduction to BPE logistics, ERP, Software configuration of BPE.

TEXT BOOK:

• 1. Automation, Production Systems and Computer Integrated Manufacturing: M.P. Groover 3e./PE/PHI, 2009.

REFERENCE BOOKS:

• 1. Computer Aided Manufacturing, Tien-Chien Chang, Richard A. Wysk and Hsu-Pin Wang, Pearson, 2009.
• 2. Automation by W. Buekinsham.