JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

UNIT - I

Over View of Manufacturing and Automation: Production systems, Automation in production systems, Automation principles and strategies, Manufacturing operations, production facilities. Basic elements of an automated system, levels of automation; Hardware components for automation and process control, programmable logic controllers and personal computers.

UNIT - II

Material Handling and Identification Technologies: Material handling, equipment, Analysis. Storage systems, performance and location strategies, Automated storage systems, AS/RS, types. Automatic identification methods, Barcode technology, RFID.

UNIT - III

Manufacturing Systems and Automated Production Lines: Manufacturing systems: components of a manufacturing system, Single station manufacturing cells; Manual Assembly lines, line balancing Algorithms, Mixed model Assembly lines, Alternative Assembly systems. Automated production lines, Applications, Analysis of transfer lines.

UNIT - IV

Automated Assembly Systems: Fundamentals, Analysis of Assembly systems. Cellular manufacturing, part families, cooling, production flow analysis. Group Technology and flexible Manufacturing systems, Quantitative Analysis.

UNIT - V

Quality Control and Support Systems: Quality in Design and manufacturing, inspection principles and strategies, Automated inspection, contact Vsnon contact, CMM. Manufacturing support systems. Quality function deployment, computer aided process planning, concurrent engineering, shop floor control, just in time and lean production.

REFERENCES:

• 1. Automation, production systems and computer integrated manufacturing/ Mikell. P rd Groover/PHI/3 edition/2012.
• 2. CAD/CAM/CIM/ P. Radha Krishnan & S. Subrahamanyarn and Raju/New Age International Publishers/2003.
• 3. System Approach to Computer Integrated Design and Manufacturing/ Singh/John Wiley /96.
• 4. Computer Aided Manufacturing/Tien-Chien Chang, Richard A. Wysk and Hsu-Pin Wang/ Pearson/ 2009.
• 5. Manufacturing and Automation Technology / R Thomas Wright and Michael Berkeihiser / Good Heart/Willcox Publishers.